of his ships as a measure of prudence: "To arrive at this moment on the enemy, would have been a blow of despair which would only have resulted in increasing the number of our losses and adding to the advantage of the enemy, to whom by the dilapidation of my division I would not have been able to cause much damage". The commission concluded that : Dumanoir had manoeuvred in accordance with the signals he had received and that he had followed the impulse of duty and honour. That he had done what the winds and circumstances had allowed him to do to come to the rescue of the flagship. That he had fought as closely as possible against all the ships he had dealt with. Finally, he had only left the battle when he was forced to do so by the damage to his ship and the impossibility of manoeuvring in the state his mast was in. Napoleon refused to employ him, as he felt, like public opinion, that he was being held in contempt. However, the conclusions of the council of war held in Toulon were taken into account by Napoleon himself. In 1811, he appointed him commander of the navy at Danzig and the charge of the direction of the convoys on the Vistula. During the blockade of Danzig, he rendered services. After a year's siege, the square capitulated and Dumanoir, who had been wounded in the head by a bomb, was taken prisoner to Kyiv. It was from there that he sent his support for the acts of the senate which decreed the disqualification of the Emperor and the recall of the Bourbons. Bourbon Restoration Returning to France in July 1814, he received the title of Count from King Louis XVIII during the first First Restoration by letters patent dated 2 December 1814; he was made a Knight of Saint-Louis in 1815. He then commanded the naval division that led the Marquis de Rivière, Louis XVIII's ambassador to Constantinople. An order of 22 August 1816 had reduced the number of counter-admirals from 21 to 12. In 1817, in accordance with this order, the list of general officers to be retained was drawn up: Dumanoir was the first on it. On 24 April of the same year, he was raised to the dignity of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Louis XVIII appointed him vice-admiral in