Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (born 1763)

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

French Navy officer (1763–1806)

Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of a French and Spanish fleet which was defeated by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.