Guillaume de Bellecombe

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Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (February 20, 1728 – 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. He was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe engaged to Royal Roussillon and took part in French military expeditions overseas of the 2nd part of the 18th century. He had his last battles in New France (1755-1760) and a surprise expedition at St Jean, Newfoundland in 1762. He opposed the English everywhere, whether on the seas, or in the American continent, or in the Indies. He was Governor of St Domingue at the end of his career (1781-1785), where he saw the slave traders unloading their “goods”. He helped start the revolution of the slaves which broke out soon in 1791. This event led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. Bellecombe retired to France in 1792 and died in the same year putting an end to his life of adventures.

Stages of life

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• February 20, 1728, birth in the hamlet of “Bellecombe”, in the commune of Perville.
• from 1728 to 1756, his youth in France, his engagement in the regiment of infantry of Royal-Roussillon (1747)
• March 30, 1755: Adjutant
• September 1, 1755: rank of Captain
• Adjutant during the French and Indian War in Canada during the campaigns of 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760.
• From 1760 to 1762 in France, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1761

• 1762, Second in command during the Newfoundland expedition, wounded during the battle of Signal Hill
• From 1762 to 1763, in France, rank of Colonel on December 1, 1762
• 1763, Adjutant in Martinique
• 1765 to 1767, in France
• 1767 to 1774, Ordering in Isle Bourbon (La Réunion), Sergeant in 1770
• 1774 to 1776, in France to marry with Angelique de Galaup de Marès
• 1776, stopover for the inspection of Gorée, opposite Senegal,
• June 15, 1776, stopover close to the Cape of Good Hope
• summer 1776, inspection of the establishment of Madagascar
• 1776, Commander Général in India, Governor of Pondichéry
• October 17, 1778, rendering of Pondichéry at the end of a long seat
• From 1780 to 1781, in France where he received the rank of Brigadier and the decoration of Commander of Saint-Louis
• July 13, 1781, Governor of Saint Domingue (Haiti)
• August 25,1783, Grand Cross of Saint-Louis
• From 1785 to 1792, in retirement in France

Further reading

• H. de BELLECOMBE, Essai Biographique sur Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe, Agen, 1895.
• Myriam-Idelette GARNIER, Histoire d’une famille protestante et de ses alliances en Périgord – Quercy – Dordogne, Poitiers, 1990.
• André de VISME, Terre-Neuve 1762 : Dernier combat aux portes de la Nouvelle-France, Montréal, 2005. ISBN 2-9808847-0-7

External links

• Bellecombe
• Newfoundland-1762

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