Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac, chevalier de Ternay (27 January 1723 – 15 December 1780) was a French naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. He led a French expedition which captured St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762. During the American Revolutionary War, Terney was appointed commander of the French Navy contingent of the Expédition Particulière, which brought thousands of French Royal Army troops to the United States in 1780. However, he died in Newport, Rhode Island not long after arriving there.
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27 January 1723 Angers, France
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Died |
15 December 1780 (aged 57) Duc de Bourgogne, Newport, Rhode Island, US
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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