LA TOUCHE TREVILLE, Louis Rene Vassor, Viscount de (lah-toosh), French naval officer, born in Rochefort, 3 June, 1745; died in Toulon, 20 August, 1804. He became a midshipman when scarcely twelve years old. and was sent to Canada and Santo Domingo. In 1780 he captured an English frigate off Newport, Rhode Island, and was made frigate-captain. During the remainder of the war for independence he served under De Orasse and De Quichen, was wounded at Yorktown in October, 1781, and also commanded the French forces in Guiana. At the conclusion of peace in 1782 he was commissioned a commander and knight of Saint Louis, and in 1789 was elected to the states-general, where he was a strong advocate of the colonies. He became rear-admiral in 1792, and after his return from a cruise in South America and in the Mediterranean was imprisoned, but liberated in 1795. On 14 December he was given command of the fleet at Aix, to co-operate with that of Villaret Joyeuse in the campaign against Santo Domingo. Sailing on the same day, he was joined at sea by Admiral Joyeuse, who claimed the command, and, dissensions following between the two admirals, they separated on arriving off Samana bay, 28 January, 1802, Villaret going with Leclerc to Cape Francais, while La Touche Treville made sail for Fort Dauphin, where he landed General Rochambeau, 30 January, and, going afterward to Port au Prince, landed the forces under General Boudet, and arrived just in season to save the city, which the negroes were preparing to burn. He then fortified it, and, when Villaret left for France, he assumed the general command of the French navy, remaining in the West Indies till the end of 1803, re-enforced the French colonies, and made also several successful attacks on the English possessions of Dominique and Bahama islands, capturing many merchant vessels, and caused altogether to the British trade a loss valued at $20,000,000. When a powerful fleet was sent against him, he chided the pursuit, and when cornered at last near Cuba he made such a defence that he compelled the enemy to retire, October, 1803. Two months later he again entered the harbor of Rochefort, where he found his commission of vice-admiral awaiting him, and was sent to command at Toulon. But he had contracted fever while in the West Indies, and died after a few months of great suffering.