• Thumbnail for Battle of Brest (1792)
    The Battle of Brest (Russian: Битва под Брестом; Polish: Bitwa pod Brześciem), This is a defensive battle of 5,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops who are trying...
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  • Battle of Brest, Brest being the name of two important fortress towns in France and Belarus, respectively, and a small town in Croatia. The Battle of...
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    Dubienka Battle of Krzemień [pl] Battle of Brest Battle of Markuszów [pl] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polish-Russian war 1792. Partitions of Poland...
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  • Thumbnail for Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary,...
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    the British in the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 Ferme 74 (launched 16 September 1785 at Brest) – Renamed Phocion in October 1792, transferred to Spain...
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    Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, Berestia, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where...
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  • Thumbnail for List of battles involving the Kingdom of France
    list of battles involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792). For pre-987 battles, see List of battles involving the Franks and Francia. For post-1792 battles...
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    Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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    French ship Royal Louis (1780) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
    renamed Républicain in September 1792. Under this name, she took part in the Third Battle of Ushant, being the last ship of the French rear. She was attacked...
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    French ship Océan (1790) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
    was ordered as États de Bourgogne and was launched at Brest in 1790. Like many French ships of the line during the Revolutionary period, she was renamed...
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  • but hastily reformed during the invasion from elements of the following; Armée du Côtes de Brest, Armée du Côtes de Normandie, and the Armée du Nord. During...
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  • Pierre-Claude Haudeneau de Breugnon (category 1792 deaths)
    (Brest, 3 August 1717 — Paris, 6 September 1792) was a French Navy officer. Breugnon was born to the family of Marie Pauline Oriot de Coatamour and of...
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    reinforce VI Corps, leaving only a battalion in Brest and another in Toulon. Vi Corps took part in the Battle of Dresden and campaigned in Bohemia later that...
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    effectively during the height of the combat. Since early 1792 France had been at war with four of its neighbours on two fronts, battling the Habsburg monarchy...
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    launched November 1670 at Brest (renamed Aurore on 24 June 1671, then Volante in 1688 and Abondante in February 1692; deleted 1792. Embuscade, 18 guns, design...
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    Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration)
    (brigadier general) in 1788 and lieutenant general in 1792. He commanded the Army of the Coasts of Brest from May until October 1793 fighting several actions...
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    Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis)
    squadron blockading Belle Île. Unable to bring them to battle, Villaret attempted to return to Brest, but contrary winds forced him towards Lorient. Close...
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    Lazare Hoche (category People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798)
    his command (Armies of the West, of the Coasts of Brest and of the Coasts of Cherbourg) merged to form the new Army of the Coasts of the Ocean, Hoche became...
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    Channel Fleet of Admiral William Cornwallis at the blockade of Brest. Towards the end of the year Britannia was stationed near the Isle of Wight to protect...
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    Berlin Decree (category Military history of Berlin)
    instituted a blockade of all ports from Brest to the Elbe. The decree proclaimed that "the British Isles are declared to be in a state of blockade" and forbade...
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    Troupes de la Marine (category Marines regiments of France)
    reappeared, under the form of two regiments, the « Royal-Marine » (French: Régiment Royal-La Marine) at Rochefort and Brest and the « Amiral » at Toulon...
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  • Thumbnail for French ship Redoutable (1795)
    Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She took part in the battles of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Brest squadron, served in the...
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    Fate: renamed Sans Culotte on 29 September 1792 and then Orient on 21 May 1795; blew up at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798. Majestueux Builder:...
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    sur Boulogne) Hue's depiction of the action of 14 December 1798 Series on the harbours of France Vue de la rade de Brest, prise au bas de la batterie du...
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    Childers Incident (category Military history of Brest, France)
    late 1792 orders were issued for the small British brig, the 14-gun HMS Childers under Commander Robert Barlow, to enter the Roadstead of Brest and investigate...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Niemen River
    The Battle of the Niemen River was the second-largest battle of the Polish–Soviet War. It took place near the middle Neman River between the cities of Suwałki...
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    Alexander Suvorov (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the First Degree)
    corps and led the victorious battles of Dywin, Kobryń, Krupczyce, and the battle of Brest where he vanquished the forces of the Polish commander Karol Sierakowski [pl];...
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  • Thumbnail for Insurrection of 10 August 1792
    The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the...
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    French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1751) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
    Durfort. Duc de Bourgogne took part in the Battle of the Saintes, where she collided with Bourgogne. In 1792, she was renamed Peuple, and then Caton in...
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    received intelligence that the French were dispatching a small fleet from Brest, which was destined for the Indian subcontinent to supply Pierre André de...
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