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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:BAPTISTE EDMOND JURIEN DE LA GRAVIERE (1812-1892)  , See also:French See also:admiral, son of Admiral Jurien, who served through the Revolutionary and See also:Napoleonic See also:wars and was a peer of See also:France under See also:Louis Philippe, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:November 1812 . He entered the See also:navy in 1828, was made a See also:commander in 1841, and See also:captain in 185o . During the See also:Russian See also:War he commanded a See also:ship in the See also:Black See also:Sea . He was promoted to be See also:rear-admiral on the 1st of See also:December 1855, and appointed to the command of a See also:squadron in the Adriatic in 1859, when he absolutely sealed the See also:Austrian ports with a See also:close See also:blockade . In See also:October 1861 he was appointed to command the squadron in the Gulf of See also:Mexico, and two months later the expedition against Mexico . On the 15th of See also:January 1862 he was promoted to be See also:vice-admiral . During the Franco-See also:German War of 187o he had command of the French Mediterranean See also:fleet, and in 1871 he was appointed " director of charts." As having commanded in See also:chief before the enemy, the See also:age-limit was waived in his favour, and he was continued on the active See also:list . Jurien died on the 4th of See also:March 1892 . He was a voluminous author of See also:works on See also:naval See also:history and See also:biography, most of which first appeared in the Revue See also:des deux mondes . Among the most noteworthy of these are Guerres maritimes sous la republique et l'See also:empire, which was translated by See also:Lord Dunsany under the See also:title of Sketches of the Last Naval War (1848); Souvenirs d'un amiral (r86o), that is, of his See also:father, Admiral Jurien; La Marine d'autrefois (1865), largely autobio- See also:Holland); see See also:LAW . The essential principles involved are disgraphical; and La Marine d'aujourd'hui (1872) . In 1866 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy .

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