Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (born 1720)

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte

French Navy officer

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a French Navy officer. Over a career spanning 50 years, he served under Louis XV and Louis XVI and took part in 34 military engagements. He fought in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, earning the ranks of…