The siege of Calvi was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the Invasion of Corsica in the early stages of the French Revolutionary...

driven into three fortified towns on the northern coast; San Fiorenzo, Calvi, and Bastia and Paoli appealed to the British Royal Navy's Mediterranean...

Lieutenant-General Charles Stuart captured the city in the Siege of Calvi in 1794. It was during the bombardment of Calvi that Nelson sustained the injury that cost him...

then laid siege to the last French-held fortress on the island, at Calvi, which was bombarded for two months, finally surrendering in August 1794. Corsica...

12 – Horatio Nelson loses the sight in his right eye in the British Siege of Calvi in Corsica. July 13 – Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and...

Martin's cruise of 1794 was the only significant French naval operation of the year in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1793 France had gone to war with Great...

Coalition Siege of Ypres (1794) – War of the First Coalition Siege of Calvi (1794) – War of the First Coalition Siege of Luxembourg (1794–95) – War of...

which led to the establishment of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom. At the Siege of Calvi, the regiment inflicted heavy casualties on the Republicans which led...

returned to active service. On 23 May 1794, he took command of the army in Corsica, and supervised the taking of Calvi (the action in which Horatio Nelson...

200km 125miles 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 Lodi 5 4 3 2 Toulon 1    The siege of Toulon (29 August – 19 December 1793) was a military engagement that...

Séverin – died in 1794 at Toulon from wounds received at the battle of Calvi Jean Charles – general, died in 1796 at Huningue. Antoine – chef de bataillon, died...

Revolutionary Wars) Battle of Tourcoing – 1794 – War of the First Coalition (French Revolutionary Wars) Siege of Calvi – 1794 – War of the First Coalition (French...

Colonel John Moore, and took part in the siege of Toulon in autumn 1793 and the siege of Calvi in July 1794. In early 1800 the East Indiaman Earl Cornwallis...

notable French captains commanded her before the British captured her at Calvi in 1794 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Mignonne. She was burnt in 1797...

prepared for an assault on Calvi, working in company with Lieutenant-General Charles Stuart. British forces landed at Calvi on 19 June, and immediately...

Clavarezza, Da Passano, De Ferrari, De Fornari, De Marini, Di Negro, Ferreti, Franzoni, Frugoni, Garbarino, Giudice Calvi, Odone, Saluzzo, Senarega...

there, but later released them. Hood and his fleet were absent for the siege of Calvi as the French fleet, following extensive repairs, had finally emerged...

concerned itself with the invasion of Corsica, particularly the sieges of Bastia and Calvi. In March 1795 the French fleet again put to sea suffering a minor...

Toulon. Between 20 and 21 April 1793, Proselyte, capitaine de vaisseau Boubennec, helped defend Calvi from the partisans under the leadership of the Corsican...

of the Committee of Public Safety and its leader, Maximilien de Robespierre (28 July 1794). During the political chaos that ensued in the French army,...

British victory over France Siege of Calvi 17 June-10 August – Anglo-Corsican victory over France Battle of Fleurus (1794) 26 June – French army, under...

December 1798 Battle of Civita Castellana, and two military affairs, first at Calvi Risorta and then on 3 January 1799 at Capua, and then by 10 January 1799...

Victor César Eugène (1907). Les opérations militaires sur la Sambre en 1794: Bataille de Fleurus (in French). Paris: R Chapelot et Cie. Wikimedia Commons has...

invasion of Corsica was planned in 1794, with successful sieges at San Fiorenzo in February, Bastia in April and Calvi in July–August. During these operations...

for assistance capturing French garrisons at Saint-Florent, Bastia, and Calvi, creating the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom. By the end of the year...

Giovanni Battista Calvi to construct a wall that would defend Gibraltar from attackers landing on the tip of the peninsula to the south. Calvi designed a wall...

King George III, chiefly by the exertions of Hood's fleet (e.g. in the Siege of Calvi), and Paoli's co-operation. This period has become known as the "Anglo-Corsican...

reinforcements from sailing to join the Allied garrison at the developing siege of Toulon. The outnumbered defenders of the port were overwhelmed and driven...

used their dominance to invade and capture the island of Corsica during 1794. By the start of 1795 enough French ships were in fighting condition that...

Étranger de Génie (2ème REG), based in St Christol, France Pionniers Groups 2e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes (2ème REP), based in Calvi, Corsica...