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The crew resisted a boarding party and three Royal Navy personnel, including two officers, were killed, along with a French sailor. Other ships captured included the old battleships Paris and Courbet , the destroyers Le Triomphant and Léopard , eight torpedo boats , five submarines and a number of lesser ships.
The Trafalgar campaign was a long and complicated series of fleet manoeuvres carried out by the combined French and Spanish fleets; and the opposing moves of the Royal Navy during much of 1805. These were the culmination of French plans to force a passage through the English Channel, and so achieve a successful invasion of the United Kingdom ...
Royal Navy attempts to scuttle ships in Ostend channel to prevent Germans from reaching open water, operation fails 8 May Action of 8 May 1918: German submarine SM U-32 is sunk by depth charges from HMS Wallflower: 9 May Second Ostend Raid: Royal Navy attempts to scuttle ships in Ostend channel to prevent Germans from reaching open water ...
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
Letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years’ War have been opened for the first time. The notes, written in 1757-8, were intended for ...
Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & War of the Second Coalition of French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Diamond Rock: 1805-05-31 1805-06-02 Kingdom of Spain United Kingdom: Victory Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) & Trafalgar campaign of War of the Third Coalition & West Indies Campaign of Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Cape Finisterre: 1805-07-22 ...
The combined French-Spanish fleet left Cadiz harbour in a loose line and turned to the south along the coast of Andalusia, headed for Naples through the Straits of Gibraltar. They were taking advantage of the north-westerly wind which was blowing on the starboard (right) rear quarter, nearly amidships, pushing them along at a slow rate and ...
The Royal Navy attempted to dispute this control in the key Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September but Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves was defeated. Protected from the sea by French ships, Franco-American forces surrounded, besieged and forced the surrender of British forces commanded by General Cornwallis, concluding major operations in North America.