Auguste Léopold Protet
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Auguste Léopold Protet (1808 – 1862) was a French Navy admiral. He founded Dakar, fought in the Second Opium War, and was killed in the Taiping Rebellion at the Fengxian District of Shanghai on the afternoon of May 17, 1862. There is a temple in his memory.
The French aviso (corvette) Protet (F742) was named after him and saw active service until the 1980s.
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