Governor of the Bastille nine years after his birth. He was a Black Musketeer of the King, officer in the Gardes Françaises until 1763-1764, then captain of a cavalry regiment. During the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, De Launay was arrested and escorted to the town hall by one of the leaders of the Revolution, Pierre-Augustin Hulin. In the Place de Greve the furious crowd attacked the escort, assaulting and eventually beheading Governor Launay. After the capture of the fortress, Prosper Soulès assumed the interim duties of acting commander. Governor of the Bastille The Bastille or Bastille Saint-Antoine was completed in
French ship Indomptable (1789) Around 150 men survived the wreck, including just two of the twenty-four officers on board. The French Navy did not record precise crew numbers aboard "Indomptable" at the commencement of the Trafalgar engagement, nor was a tally made of the number of sailors rescued from "Bucentaure": the figures of between 1,000 and 1,400 are taken from reports of contemporary observers. The estimate of 150 survivors was made by Captain Pernot, whose regiment provided "Indomptable"s marines. French ship Indomptable (1789) Indomptable ("Indomitable") was an "Tonnant"-class 80-gun ship of the line in the French Navy, laid down in 1788 and in active