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Place of Birth: Fontenay-le-Comte, Pays de la Loire, France
About Charles Jean d'Hector
- Charles Jean d'Hector, comte d'Hector (22 July 1722, Fontenay-le-Comte, France - 18 August 1808, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom) was a French aristocrat and naval officer.
- Losing his father at a young age, he soon entered the French Navy, starting his service during the Seven Years' War, notably at the battle of Quiberon Bay.
- Following that battle he and the chevalier de Ternay saved part of the French fleet which had taken refuge in the Vilaine estuary.
- He was promoted to capitaine de vaisseau then squadron commander at the start of the American Revolutionary War.
- Put in command of Brest and its naval force, he assisted the Naval Minister maréchal de Castries in his plans to reform the fleet.
- He was visited at Brest by the future Tsar Nicholas I and his family and at Cherbourg on an inspection by Louis XVI of France. He ended his career at the rank of lieutenant general.
- He emigrated to Britain upon the French Revolution and - despite his lack of funds - raised a volunteer regiment known as the RĂ©giment Hector ou Marine Royale.
- This took part in the Quiberon Expedition in 1795.
- He died in exile in England aged 86.
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