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Duquesne, Abraham, Marquis Duquesne

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Duquesne, Abraham, Marquis Duquesne (1610–1688)

French admiral. He defeated the combined fleets of Spain and Holland off the Italian island of Stromboli in 1676, during the Second War of Louis XIV, for which Louis made him a marquis. He also reorganized the French fleet.

Duquesne first joined the merchant service, and took part in the defeat of the Spaniards at the capture of the Lerins Islands in 1637. He also fought in the war with Spain at Guetaria in 1638, Coruña in 1639, Tarragona in 1641, and Barcelona in 1643, and bombarded Algiers 1682–83 and Genoa, Italy, in 1684.



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