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Following the Battle of San Domingo, Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, newly knighted, gathered a small squadron in anticipation of the arrival of the second French force under Willaumez. Based at Carlisle Bay, Barbados , Cochrane's forces patrolled the Leeward Islands for the French force during the spring, eventually locating Willaumez's ...
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, on the coast of French Algeria.
The French Imperial Navy (French: Marine Impériale) was the name given to the French Navy during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and subsequently during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. The first use of the title 'Imperial Navy' was in 1804, following the Coronation of Napoleon , a name derived from the old French Navy under The Republic .
The Algeciras campaign, or Battles of Algeciras, was a brief naval campaign fought between a combined French and Spanish Navy force and a British Royal Navy force during 4–13 July 1801. A French squadron, seeking to join the Spanish fleet and a number of French ships of the line at the Spanish Atlantic base of Cadiz, sailed from Toulon on 13 ...
The French Navy is affectionately known as La Royale ("the Royal"). The reason for this nickname is uncertain. Speculation includes: it might be for its traditional attachment to the French monarchy; because, before being named "nationale", the Navy had been named "royale" (the navy did not sport the royal titles common with other European navies like the British Royal Navy); or simply because ...
The action of 25 September 1806 was a naval battle fought during the Napoleonic Wars off the French Biscay port of Rochefort.A French squadron comprising five frigates and two corvettes, sailing to the French West Indies with supplies and reinforcements, was intercepted by a British squadron of six ships of the line that was keeping a close blockade of the port as part of the Atlantic campaign ...
Gloire joined Marseillaise and Condé in the 1st Squadron (1 re Escadre) in 1910 as the Mediterranean Squadron had been redesignated in 1909. At the same time the Northern Squadron had become the 2nd Squadron. [13] The entry into service of more modern cruisers saw the sisters transferred back to the 2nd Squadron in 1911.
The list of High Seas Crews according to a despatch from Napoleon to the Minister of Navy and the Colonies Denis, Comte de Decrès were as follows in July 1810: [5] 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 19th, and 21st Crews in Toulon; 4th [a], 5th, 6th, 8th, 13th, 15th [b], and 17th Crews in Rochefort; 11th and 12th Crews in Lorient; 14th and 32nd Crews in ...