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    Orion was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. In 1790, Orion was under Buor de La Charoulière. She took part in fighting on the...
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  • Three ships have been named after Orion: French ship Orion (1787), a 74-gun ship of the line French ship Orion (1813) a 74-gun ship of the line French submarine...
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  • Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...
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    HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the Canada class, by...
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  • ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology: HMS Orion (1787) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of...
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  • HMS Vanguard was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 March 1787 at Deptford. She was the sixth vessel to bear the name...
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    du Chevalier de Fréminville (1787-1848) (in French). Paris: Librairie ancienne H. Champion. Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development...
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    Brunswick 80 (1855) – laid down 1847, converted to screw 1854–55 Orion class (Edye & Watts) Orion 80 (1854) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 91-guns 1852–54...
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    Colossus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Gravesend on 4 April 1787 and lost on 10 December 1798. During...
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    is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale...
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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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  • The Bounty (1984 film) (category Orion Pictures films)
    23 December 1787, on an expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean, Bligh electing to sail the ship west round...
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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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    HMS Bellerophon (1786) (category 1786 ships)
    Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786. Bellerophon served during the French Revolutionary...
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    October, Melampus and Latona, and later Orion and Thalia, and later still Pomone and Concorde, chased three French frigates, Tartu and Néréide, and the 50-gun...
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    Titanic (redirect from Titanic (ship))
    the Nab Lightship and headed out into the English Channel. The ship headed for the French port of Cherbourg, a journey of 77 nautical miles (89 mi; 143 km)...
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    HMS Victory (category 1765 ships)
    twenty-nine ships of the line and, on 23 July, sighted a French fleet of roughly equal force 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant. The French admiral, Louis...
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    Julien Cosmao (category Military articles needing translation from French Wikipedia)
    sub-lieutenant on a ship of the line in March 1786. In September 1787, he was given command of the brig Vaneau, and of Boulonnaise from November 1787 to March 1790...
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    Edward Codrington (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    the combined fleet. Codrington and Orion were engaged at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, where Orion was stationed to the rear of the northern...
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    torpedoed and sank three ships: CS Dacia (1,856 GRT), Kanguroo (2,493 GRT) and Surprise (680 GRT). The commander of the French gunboat Surprise and 34...
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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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    Bronze (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    soft-paste porcelain and French gilt bronze; 28.9 x 17.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Winter; by Jean-Antoine Houdon; 1787; bronze; 143.5 x 39.1 x 50...
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    Chevalier de Saint-Georges (category French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Herald, 11 April 1787. The Morning Herald, 6 April 1787. Angelo 1834, p. 63. Angelo 1830, p. 538. Journal general de France, 11 August 1787. Banat 2006, p...
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    (September 2014). Empire of the Deep. The Rise and Fall of the British Navy. Orion Publishing Group, Limited. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-7538-2920-2. "Myths of Nelson's...
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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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    Nelson with several ships of the line and sent him in search of the French. Nelson was initially unsuccessful, missing the French when they passed by...
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    in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, Wilberforce came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of activists...
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  • Meanings of minor-planet names: 1–1000 (category Articles containing French-language text)
    origin of name. The asteroid was named by the French Astronomical Society (French: Société astronomique de France). DMP · 291 292 Ludovica – Unknown origin...
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    University of Michigan. Boston : The Society. p. 159. Johnson, Samuel (1787). Debates in Parliament: Nov. 19, 1740-April 16, 1741. J. Stockdale. Kennedy...
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    Austro-Hungarian Navy (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Guillaume (1787). Recueil de pièces authentiques, relatives aux affaires de la ci-devant Société impériale asiatique de Trieste, gérées à Anvers (in French). Antwerp...
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