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Talebot-Fouet Ratusi Jacquinot was born on April 8th, [[1694]] to a [[Bergendii]] boswain's mate, Damian-Arnaud Guibault Jaquinot and his [[Loa]] wife, Ratu, in the village of St. Sebastian, on the island of Catavis, [[Equatorial Ostiecia]]. He was always of diminutive stature and was teased for it mercilessly but other children in the settlement. He was known as a momma's boy, from his mother he inherited a sharp wit, and broad intellect. He grew up speaking [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]], [[Loa]], and the Latino-Carib creole language of the native [[Kingdom of Oustec|Oustec]]. At 12, he joined his father on a voyage to [[Versaise Colony]] and was immediately prized by the captain, Henri-Elsmere Rembrandt laFitte, for his intelligence, his small stature, and his willingness to please. The captain paid Talebot's father a portion of his profit-share in [[Versaise Colony]] and adopted Talebot as his own. He established Talebot, now Talebot-Fouet Jacquinot laFitte, with a private tutor in the [[Duchy of Bourgondi]] from [[1708]]-[[1712]], and upon his 18th birthday he was commissioned by the duke as an under-captain ([[Burgoignesc language|Burg]]: sous-capitain) on a ship in a merchant/colonization fleet bound for the newly established [[Sudmoll|Sud Moll colony]]. Every thing was going to plan until, almost at their they came under attack from a [[Daxia]]n fleet patrolling the waters around their colonial possession of [[Stenza]]. Talebot's ship and the four other warships broke off to give the unarmed ships an opportunity to flee. The [[Daxia]]n fleet consisted of 8 warships, many of them massive {{wp|Junk_(ship)#Ming_dynasty_(15th–17th_century)|Zhàn Chuán}} which would have decimated the [[Duchy of Bourgondi]]'s ships. In the initial moments of the engagement the captain of his ship was killed by shrapnel and Talebot took command. He told his crew to disengage which they resisted thinking he was deserting. He had seen some of the smaller [[Daxia]]n ships give chase to the unarmed ships of the fleet and he was determined to defend them. Every one of the other Bourgondii ships were completely decimated and sunk, eventually, but Talebot's actions saved the merchant ships. His ship was captured by the [[Daxia]]n fleet but it bought time for the merchant ships to get far enough away from the [[Daxia]]ns that they made it to [[Sudmoll|Sud Moll colony]] without any further harassment. Based on some contemporary accounts, based on archeological evidence and diary writings from the time, it is thought that the colonization effort on [[Sudmoll]] was destined to fail, prior to the arrival of fresh materials, food, and settlers.