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Date: June – December 1798: Location: ... The Mediterranean campaign of 1798 was a series of major naval operations surrounding a ... By the end of the year little ...
The action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea.The engagement formed part of a wider campaign, in which a major French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria at the start of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt.
Date: 1 July 1798 – 2 September 1801 ... It was the primary purpose of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, ... 1798 19 May (30 Floréal year VI) ...
Part of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798: Date: 18–25 ... The French had seized the Venetian Ionian Islands off the western coast of Greece the previous year, ...
Battle of the Nile, Augt 1st 1798, painted by Thomas Whitcombe in 1816. The Battle of the Nile was a significant naval action fought from 1 to 3 August 1798. The battle took place in Aboukir Bay, near the mouth of the River Nile on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, and pitted a British fleet of the Royal Navy against a fleet of the French Navy.
The siege of Malta, also known as the siege of Valletta or the French blockade (Maltese: L-Imblokk tal-Franċiżi), was a two-year siege and blockade of the French garrison in Valletta and the Three Cities, the largest settlements and main port on the Mediterranean island of Malta, between 1798 and 1800.
Mediterranean campaign of 1798; A. Action of 15 July 1798; Action of 18 August 1798; Action of 18 June 1799; Action of 27 June 1798; C. Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) F.
A blockade of the Spanish Atlantic ports was instituted, especially Cadiz, the large southern fleet anchorage, and the Spanish did not again attempt to break out during the remainder of the year. [4] Early in 1798, rumours reached Jervis, recently ennobled as Earl St Vincent, of a buildup of French forces around the Mediterranean seaport of ...