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Anne Hilarion de Tourville

French admiral

Anne Hilarion de Tourville served in a role connected with the French Navy during seventeenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.

He is associated with fleet command in the age of louis xiv. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.

He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Anne Hilarion de Tourville belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.