Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois

Counter-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand, comte de Linois (27 January 1761 – 2 December 1848) was a French Navy officer and colonial administrator who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

He commanded the combined Franco-Spanish fleet during the Algeciras campaign in 1801, winning the First Battle of Algeciras before coming under Juan Joaquín Moreno de Mondragón's command and, not having recovered from the damage because of the first battle, losing the Second Battle of Algeciras. In the second battle, out of 2,000 Franco-Spanish casualties more than 1,700 were suffered by the Spanish and the French lost one ship of the line captured by the British out of three lineships and one frigate lost by the Franco-Spanish allies.

He then led an unsuccessful campaign against British trade in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea in 1803, being defeated by a harmless fleet of the British East India Company during the Battle of Pulo Aura. Linois ended his cruise and sea-going career being bested in battle by John Borlase Warren in the action of 13 March 1806. Following the Bourbon Restoration in France, Linois was appointed Governor of Guadeloupe. He supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days and so, on his return to France, he was forced to resign and was court martialled. Although acquitted, he was placed in retirement and never served again.