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A French hero The privateer and naval officer Jean Bart distinguished himself, among other accomplishments, by capturing a convoy of 96 ships loaded with Russian and Polish wheat in 1696, when France was suffering from famine.

Jean Bart

French military officer
Also known as: Jean Barth
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Jean Bart (born October 21, 1650, Dunkirk, Franceā€”died April 27, 1702, Dunkirk) was a French privateer and naval officer, renowned for his skillful and daring achievements in the wars of Louis XIV. Descended from a family of fishermen and privateers, Bart entered naval service first under the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter, but when war broke out between the French and the Dutch (1672ā€“78) he returned to Dunkirk, where his knowledge of every detail of...

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