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British Hero: Merchantman: For private owner. Unknown date United Kingdom: Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport: Cato: Schooner: For Mr. Lambden. [32] Unknown date United Kingdom: William Rowe Newcastle upon Tyne: City of London: West Indiaman: For Fenn & Co. Unknown date New South Wales: Thomas Moore King's Dockyard, Sydney: Cumberland: Schooner
8 March – Second Battle of Abukir: a British Army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops. [1] 10 March – The first British census is carried out. The count is conducted by clergy, overseers of the poor and schoolmasters. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million, [4] with London revealed to have 860,035 ...
For the British expedition to the Red Sea (1801) the British government hired a number of transport vessels. The transports supported Major-General Sir David Baird 's expedition in 1801 to the Red Sea.
A British expedition landed in Egypt in March, fighting the Battle of Abukir, the Battle of Alexandria and laying siege to Alexandria. The French surrender there on 2 September ended their campaign in Egypt and Syria which had begun in 1798. The naval war also continued, with the United Kingdom maintaining a blockade of France by sea.
Linois sailed from Toulon on 13 June 1801 with three ships of the line and one frigate carrying 1,560 soldiers under Brigadier-General Pierre Devaux []. [13] Ganteaume's earlier expedition was still in the Eastern Mediterranean, and so the British blockade force under Sir John Borlase Warren detailed to watch Toulon was instead off Malta hoping to intercept Ganteaume on his return. [14]
HMS Tartar was a 32-gun fifth-rate Narcissus-class frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic Sea before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811.
John Hely-Hutchinson replaced Abercromby in command of British forces, which then advanced upon Alexandria to lay siege to it. The French garrison surrendered on 2 September 1801. Reynier heavily criticised Menou in his mémoires [15] on his return to France - Bonaparte ordered the mémoires suppressed in 1802 for this reason (and possibly ...
HMS Eclair was a French Navy schooner launched in 1799 and captured in 1801. The British took her into service under her French name and armed her with twelve 12-pounder carronades. In 1804 she engaged in a noteworthy, albeit indecisive single ship action with the 22-gun French privateer Grande Decide. In 1809 she was renamed Pickle.