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    HMS Arab was a 22-gun post ship of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the 18-gun French privateer Brave, which the British captured in 1798. She served...
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  • and HMS Santa Margarita, and wrecked in 1796. HMS Arab (1797) was an 8-gun schooner, the former French Arabe, captured in 1797, renamed Ant in 1798, and...
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  • Coastal Forces division French ship Brave, various French Navy ships HMS Arab (1798), a post ship originally the French privateer Brave Burlington Braves...
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  • the name HMS Ant: HMS Ant was an 8-gun schooner, formerly the French Arabe, captured 1797 and renamed HMS Arab, renamed Ant 1798, sold 1815. HMS Ant (1815)...
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    HMS Arab was the French 20-gun corvette Jean Bart, launched in 1793. The British captured her in 1795 and the Royal Navy took her into service. She was...
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    Alcmene (32 guns) HMS Bonne Citoyenne (20 guns) HMS Fortune (18 guns) HMS Légère (2 guns) HMS Toride (2 guns) 1798 19 May (30 Floréal year VI) – Departure from...
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    HMS Hannibal was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1786, named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal. She...
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    Repulse, HMS Hood and HMS Warspite provided howitzer crews which were sent ashore to combat gun running near the border with Lebanon. Detained Arabs were...
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    to United Arab Emirates. UK: Longman. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-582-27728-1. Schofield, R (1990). Islands and Maritime Boundaries of the Gulf 1798–1960. UK:...
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    Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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    1804 Ships of the Old Navy HMS Tartar HM Sloop Endeavour HMS Arab HMS Drake HMS Meleager HMS Ferret. The ship under Lieutenant Nowell that rescued Perkins...
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    of Malta, between 1798 and 1800. Malta had been captured by a French expeditionary force during the Mediterranean campaign of 1798, and garrisoned with...
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    HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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    Between His Majesty's Forces And The Rebels, During The Irish Rebellion, 1798. Jone Jones, 91 Bride Street, Dublin. p. 12. Jones, John (1799). An Impartial...
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  • by G. Foreman and Co., launched in 1798, and later renamed Tay. In 1802 the French captured her and sold her to Arab merchants. Earl Mornington, Cook,...
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    HMS Cerberus when the two engaged and captured the 18-gun Jean Bart in the English Channel. Jean Bart was subsequently taken into service as HMS Arab...
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  • her. She arrived at Funchal Roads on 12 October, having been convoyed by HMS Arab and Favourite. Andersons, under convoy by Favourite, left there on the...
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    process resulting in the prohibition of slavery in those lands. Many of the Arab ruling classes were upset by this interruption of a valuable trade, which...
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    HMS Canada was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard. On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged...
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    months in 1974), the minehunters HMS Maxton, HMS Bossington, and HMS Wilton, the Fleet Clearance Diving Team (FCDT) and HMS Abdiel, a practice minelayer/MCMV...
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    to naval attack. A small naval squadron, consisting of HMS Aeolus, HMS Cleopatra and the brig HMS Recruit, advanced into Fort-de-France Bay on 5 February...
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    States, established in 1791 and renamed the United States Army in 1796. In 1798, during the Quasi-War with France, the U.S. Congress established a three-year...
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    to 1979, at times being classified as a stone frigate known as HMS Egmont or later HMS St Angelo. The fort suffered considerable damage during World War...
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  • HMS Eagle, Albion and Bulwark and France had the battleship Jean Bart and aircraft carriers Arromanches and La Fayette on station. In addition, HMS Ocean...
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    First Arab siege of Constantinople – Byzantines defeat Arabs (first use of "Greek fire") 697? – Greeks under John defeat Arabs 698 Carthage – Arabs defeat...
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    been sparsely populated for a few centuries until being repopulated by Arabs in the 11th century. The islands were invaded by the Norman County of Sicily...
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    Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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    to Berlin. When the Arabs of the revolt of June 1916 attacked the port of Jiddah, they were supported by the seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree, based...
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  • HMS Trincomalee was a sloop of Dutch or French origin that the British Royal Navy took into service in 1799. She was destroyed in action in 1799 with...
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  • 185,806 livres. French privateer sloop Jean Bart, captured on 16 May 1798 by HMS Rover. French privateer Jean Bart of 100 tons, three guns (one a 16-pounder)...
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