San Domingo. The French Squadron.

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Contre-Admiral Leissègues' squadron
Ship	Rate	Guns	Commander	Casualties	Notes
Alexandre	Third rate	80	Captain Pierre-Elie Garreau	~300	Captured in a dismasted and sinking state with surviving crew. Repaired, but unfit for continued service and later broken up
Impérial	First rate	120	Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissegues Captain Julien-Gabriel Bigot	~500	Driven ashore and wrecked, subsequently burnt by a British boarding party on 8 February. Six men taken prisoner
Diomède	Third rate	74	Captain Jean-Baptiste Henry	~250	Driven ashore and wrecked, subsequently burnt by a British boarding party on 8 February. 150 men taken prisoner
Jupiter	Third rate	74	Captain Gaspard Laignel	~200	Captured with surviving crew. Later commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Maida
Brave	Third rate	74	Commodore Louis-Marie Coudé	~260	Captured with surviving crew. Foundered during journey back to Europe
Minor warships
Comète	Fifth rate	40		0	Not engaged in the battle, returned to France
Félicité	Fifth rate	32		0	Not engaged in the battle, returned to France
Diligente	Corvette	20	Captain Raymond Cocault	0	Not engaged in the battle, returned to France
Total casualties: 1,510

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Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissegues.

Leissegues joined the Navy in 1778, at age 20. He served on the frigate Oiseau and took part in patrol in the English Channel, before being transferred on the Nymphe. In 1780, he was promoted to lieutenant de frégate and joined the Magicienne.
In 1781, Leissegues served under Suffren and took part in the campaigns of the Franco-Indian alliances. He received a wound at the head during the Battle of Providien.
From 1785, Leissègues served in the North Sea on the frigate Vigilante. Promoted to sous-lieutenant de vaisseau, he served in the Indian Ocean aboard the frigate Méduse from 1787 to 1791. He took his first command with the brig Furet, off Newfoundland.
Leissègues was promoted to Captain in early 1793 and put in command of a convoy bound for Windward Islands. Arriving at Guadeloupe, he found the island in British hands, and launched a 4-month campaign to re-take it. He was subsequently promoted to contre-amiral.
Upon his return to France, Leissègues was put in charge of harbour inspection from Saint-Malo to Vlissingen. He was then given command of the harbours of Ostend, Vlissingen, and Antwerp, as well of the naval forces stationed near Walcheren.
Leissègues later led a naval division to Northern Africa to reduce attacks by Barbary corsairs. He managed to obtain assurances in Algiers and Tunis, bringing back presents and the ambassador of Tunis to Paris. The same years, he ferried General Brune to Constantinople.

Battle of San Domingo.

In 1806, Leissègues lead a five-ship squadron to reinforce Santo Domingo. A British squadron led by vice-admiral John Thomas Duckworth intercepted the convoy, and destroyed it in the ensuing Battle of San Domingo.
On 7 April 1809, Leissègues was put in charge of the defence of Venice. He was tasked to provide for Corfu, where he stayed until the surrender of the island to the Allies, in 1814, upon orders of Louis XVIII.
Leissègues returned to Toulon in August 1814. He served under the Bourbon Restoration until 1818, rising to vice-admiral.

Honours.

Commander of the Order of Saint-Louis.
Commander of the Legion of Honour.

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