Pierre Hincelin

Pierre Hincelin (or Hencelin; died 15 June 1695) was a French soldier who was the King's Lieutenant on Guadeloupe.

[6] Tracy reached Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe on 23 June 1664, and instructed Houäl, d'Erbray and Théméricourt to leave for France.

He made Claude François du Lyon governor of Guadeloupe and Gabriel de Folio, sieur des Roses commander of Marie-Galante.

[7] During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1666–67) La Barre, newly appointed lieutenant-general arrived in the Antilles late in 1866 with a fleet and 400 soldiers.

[10] After overcoming some resistance governor Robert de Clodoré of Martinique accepted the English capitulation on 10 November 1666.

He learned that 900 Englishmen from Barbuda and Nevis had gathered in the northern district of Pope's Head and were being joined by Antiguan settlers.

Clodoré took his fleet to Pope's head where he disembarked his force, with Hencelin and Blondel as seconds in command.

[15] François d'Alesso d'Éragny was appointed his successor in May 1690, but the marquis de Seignelay did not treat his departure as a matter of urgency.

[17] 400 men under the king's lieutenant Robert Cloche de La Malmaison delayed the English before being forced back.

[17] On 23 May Codrington, whose force was becoming weakened by disease, heard that a French fleet under Jean-Baptiste Ducasse had arrived with reinforcements.

[19] The French force regained Marie-Galante and then started disembarking reinforcements in the northeast Grand-Terre district.