Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Portrait by [[Joseph Ducreux]], 1790 Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer, explorer and nobleman. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including a circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific expedition in 1763, the first recorded settlement on the Falkland Islands, and voyages into the Pacific Ocean. The Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea as well as the Bougainvillea flower are named in his honour. Provided by Wikipedia
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