Auguste Léopold Protet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French admiral
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Place of Birth: Saint-Servan, Brittany, France
About Auguste Léopold Protet
- Auguste Léopold Protet (1808–62) was a French Navy admiral.
- He founded Dakar, fought in the Second Opium War, and was killed in the Taiping Rebellion at the Fengxian District of Shanghai on the afternoon of May 17, 1862.
- He was born at Saint-Servan, France, and at sixteen he was admitted into the naval school of Angoulême.
- When he was 38 he received the commission of captain in the royal navy.
- At this time the English and French governments combined their efforts to put an end to the slave trade on the African coast, and Protet was employed in that service.
- After cruising three years on the coast of Africa he was appointed governor of Senegal, where he remained from 1850 to 1855.
- He served during the war with China, and was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral.
- He subsequently joined the expedition against the Taiping, who threatened an attack upon Shanghai, and he was killed during the engagement at Nan-Jao (??). The French troops massacred 3,000 men, women and children in a nearby Chinese village to revenge his death.The French aviso (corvette) Protet (F742) was named after him and saw active service until the 1980s.
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