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    Léopard was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. On 30 October 1788, Léopard departed Toulon for a cruise in the Caribbean, under...
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  • At least three ships of the French Navy have been named Léopard: French ship Léopard (1642), a 28-gun small ship of the line launched in 1642 and passed...
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    later – sold August 1672 Léopard class. Two sisters of 28–30 guns built at Indret from 1640 to 1644 by Jean de Werf Léopard (1642) – delivered to the...
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    to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1816 Orion 74 (1787) – broken up 1814 Captain 74 (1787) – hulked, receiving ship at Plymouth 1809, burnt by accident and broken...
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    was broken up in 1813. French ship Impétueux (1787) List of ships captured in the 18th century List of ships of the line of France "No. 20939". The London...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1787 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1787. "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Blonde' (1787)". Threedecks...
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    Téméraire-class ships of the line were a class of a hundred and twenty 74-gun ships of the line ordered between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy or its attached...
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    Cinema Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film): One night in Portsmouth, England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking...
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    Original six frigates of the United States Navy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    powerful enough to engage any frigates of the French or British navies, yet fast enough to evade any ship of the line. One of these original six, the USS Constitution...
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    List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy (category Lists of Royal Navy ships by type)
    ship at Cork in 1810, residential ship at Pembroke from 1813, broken up 1828 HMS Alligator 1787 – hulked as salvage ship at Cork in 1810, sold 1814 Almost...
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    under Rodney fail to defeat French under de Guichen 9 August Spanish-French fleet under Luis de Córdova y Córdova captures 55 ship British convoy off Cape...
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    Sir George Collier, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    friendly soil the Portuguese ship was captured by a French privateer and Collier and his fellow survivors were sent to Île de France as prisoners. He remained...
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    Thomas Jefferson (category Articles containing French-language text)
    European settlers. Notes was first published in 1785 in French and appeared in English in 1787. Biographer George Tucker considered the work "surprising...
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    captured by the French Navy. Modéré ( French Navy): Battle of Vigo Bay, 23 October: The 56-gun ship was captured by the Royal Navy. Prompt ( French Navy): Battle...
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    Åland War (category Battles involving France)
    was not declared to begin until 27 March. The British-French naval division of one hundred ships and boats was, by the standards at the time, quite modern...
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  • to Bombay in 1799. Captain Ninian Lowis sailed from The Downs on 12 March 1787, bound for Madras and China. Woodcot reached Johanna on 12 July and Madras...
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  • James Hanway Plumridge (category 1787 births)
    Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge KCB MP (13 March 1787 – 29 November 1863) was a British naval officer whose career extended from Trafalgar to the Crimean...
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    Saint-Domingue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.dɔ.mɛ̃ɡ]) was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of...
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    reopened its involvement in the slave trade until prohibiting it again in 1787, but then reopened it in 1803; while North Carolina allowed the trade beginning...
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    Turkey (category Articles containing French-language text)
    Administrative law is based on the French equivalent and procedural law generally shows the influence of the Swiss, German and French legal systems. Islamic principles...
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    June 1542. See Fitzgerald 2019. Strong has been led astray by Noble, Mark (1787). Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell. Vol. I (3rd ed.). pp. 19–20...
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    Washington's first term (1787–1793) little was done to rearm the navy. In 1793, the French Revolutionary Wars between Great Britain and France began, and a truce...
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    The expedition departed England on 13 May 1787, and Supply was accompanied by 10 other ships. Of all the ships in the fleet, Supply reached Botany Bay first...
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    James Madison (category Articles containing French-language text)
    proposal was a major motivation in his return to Congress in 1787. Leading up to the 1787 ratification debates for the Constitution, Madison worked with...
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  • France were strained following a diplomatic incident involving the French ambassador and President Taylor, and the United States discouraged French annexation...
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  • a target of the British, primarily HMS Leopard. Mungo Mackay's ship, the Mendon, was captured by HMS Leopard. Mungo Mackay was a director of the Middlesex...
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    Peter Heywood (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    October 1787, and after being held at Spithead awaiting final sailing orders was further delayed by bad weather; it was 23 December before the ship was finally...
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    Digital Archive. Web. 27 Apr. 2018. Bateson, Charles (1959). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Brown, Son & Ferguson. OCLC 3778075. Loss of the Amphitrite The...
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    original on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2018. Prestwich, John (1787). Prestwich's Respublica, or, A display of the honors, ceremonies & ensigns...
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  • Women in 18th-century warfare (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    soldiers and rallying the troops. 1787–1807: A woman serves twenty years in the Royal Marines under the name "Tom Bowling" 1787: The wife of the German colonel...
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