harbour, attach these ships, attack the British squadron blockading Rochefort, attach the Rochefort squadron under Admiral Bergeret and, by then totaling 18 ships, sail to the Caribbean to rescue Martinique and Guadeloupe. Willaumez led his division to Lorient and Rochefort as instructed, but none of the squadrons joined forces with his: The Lorient squadron was becalmed and could not depart until after Willaumez had left, leading to the Battle of Les Sables-d'Olonne; and the Rochefort squadron was too affected by sickness to sail. Displeased with Willaumez' performance, Napoléon removed him from command of the fleet and kept him in subordinate roles from then on. The arrival of a large British squadron blockaded Willaumez himself in Rochefort, where the concentration of French ships constituted a tempting target for the British. They eventually attacked with fireships at the Battle of the Basque Roads. Later life In 1811, Willaumez was ordered to Holland to command a division in the fleet under Admiral de Winter. However, his declining health forced him to request his transfer back to France after one year. In 1819, after the Bourbon Restoration, Willaumez was promoted to Vice-Admiral. In 1825, he published a dictionary of naval terms, and later presided over the Council of Constructions of the Navy. He also commissioned a collection of ship models. He was promoted Grand-Officier of the Order of the Legion of Honour in 1828. In January 1834, Willaumez became the president of the Council of Constructions. In 1836, he led an enquiry, along with Baron Rolland, into the destruction by fire of the 120-gun ship Trocadéro. In 1837, he was made a pair de France, and retired. In 1844, Louis-Phillipe made him a Count, a title that Willaumez transmitted to then Captain Bouët, who from then on assumed the name of Bouët-Willaumez. Honours pair de France in 1837 His name is inscribed on the 22nd column of the Southern pillar of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Legacy During the Empire, Willaumez advocated the construction of strong, sixty-gun frigates, capable of carrying food for ten months and water for four, mounting the new 30-pounder long gun rather than the 36- and 24-pounders that dated from before the French Revolution. In 1822, the project was adopted by Jean Tupinier, resulting in the Surveillante-class frigates and similar developments during the Bourbon Restoration. In his Dictionnaire de marine, Willaumez thus defined the term Marine: Works Notes and