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TRIMADEUC, Gui Plouvencal (tre-mah-duk), Baron de, French naval officer, born in the castle of Trimadeuc, near Auray, Brittany, in 1720; died there in 1784. He entered the maritime service when fourteen years old, assisted in the battle off Toulon in 1740, and, being promoted to the command of the brig "Pluto" in 1749, was attached to the station of Canada, and made an exploration of the northern coast of America. He escorted a convoy of troops from Brest to Quebec in 1756, sustained afterward a successful engagement with a British division off Louisburg, which he relieved, and, being sent to the West Indies, defended the islands of Grenada and St. Vincent, and raised the blockade of Cape Francais in Santo Domingo. He was promoted brigadier-general of the naval forces in 1763, brevetted chef d'escadre in 1778, and sent with a division to operate on the coast of North America. After ruining the cod-fisheries of Newfoundland, he assisted in the siege of Savannah in 1779, defeated Admiral Drake in the West Indies in 1780, and fought till the conclusion of peace in 1783, when he was retired with the rank of commander of the order of Saint Louis.
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