• Mars, was a French privateer. Mars was involved in a naval battle in Loch nan Uamh during the Jacobite rising. HMS Dreadnought captured her off Cape Clear...
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  • frigate Mars, later HMS Mars, a 32-gun fifth rate ship of the line built in 1769 French ship Mars, a list of French warships French privateer Mars (1746), later...
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    Bellone, was a French privateer. Bellone was involved in a naval battle in Loch nan Uamh during the Jacobite rising. She was captured in 1747. She was...
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    Skirmish of Loch nan Uamh (category Conflicts in 1746)
    at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, two French privateer ships from Nantes (south of Brittany), Le Le Mars and La La Bellone arrived at Loch nan...
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    hulk at Toulon, renamed Mars in 1892. Broken up for scrap in 1906. Several French privateers also bore the name. Mars (1746), involved in the Skirmish...
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    de la Covadonga 1746, 21 January – HMS Granado captures the French privateer Marianne 1761, 1 January – HMS Trent captures the French merchant frigate...
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    Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in April 1746, Sheridan escaped Scotland on the French privateer Mars: he had been in poor health for some time and...
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    The ship was captured by the French privateer Mars. Active ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the French privateer Ferrailleur while on a voyage...
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    George Walker (died 1777) was an English privateer active against French shipping. Walker, as a lad and a young man, served in the Dutch navy, and was...
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    1747 Mars class. Designed and built by Blaise Ollivier. Mars 64 (launched May 1740 at Brest) – captured by the British off Ireland in October 1746 and...
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    fight back by licensing French merchant ships to privateer and seize enemy merchant ships while avoiding its navies: France has its declared enemies...
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    Ulrich Jørgensen Kaas (4 October 1677 – 28 December 1746) was a member of the old noble family of Mur Kaas, and an officer in the Dano-Norwegian navy....
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    February 1746, sold 1749 Mars 64 (1746) – ex-French Le Mars captured 11 October 1746, wrecked 1755 Intrepid 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Sérieux captured 3 May 1747...
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  • British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near...
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  • 1815, including the period of the French-controlled Batavian Republic, nominal Kingdom of Holland and direct French annexation between 1795 and 1813....
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  • Pierre-Claude Haudeneau de Breugnon (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Navy as a Garde-Marine in 1733. In 1746, he captained the 12-gun corvette Palme, on which he fought a British privateer off Calais. That same year, he was...
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    Savage Mostyn (category British military personnel of the French and Indian War)
    a former English privateer. Mars broke away from the other two French ships, and was pursued by Captain, which captured the French ship that evening...
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    Treaty of Paris (1856) (category Treaties of the Second French Empire)
    the war that the French might capitalise on a weakened Russia and focus their attention on seeking revenge on the British for French military defeats...
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  • program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars. 1973 –...
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    Étienne Perier (governor) (category French privateers)
    officer and privateer, including during the capture of HMS Northumberland in 1744. Étienne Perier was born on February 27, 1686, in Brest in France. A member...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category Articles containing French-language text)
    waged a public relations campaign, secured secret aid, played a role in privateering expeditions, and churned out effective and inflammatory propaganda."...
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    the Brest blockade fleet of Hawke in 1760; there she captured the French 8-gun privateer schooner La Marguerite on 4 April. For part of the year Orford was...
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    Mercenary (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    the war between England and France in 1360, the French countryside was overrun by Free Companies of routiers while the French Crown lacked the necessary...
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  • 1660s (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Gardeur, French explorer, New France soldier (d. 1738) October 6 – William Dunbar, Scottish bishop (d. 1746) October 11 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat...
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  • governments to evacuate to their colonies. France-outre-mer encompasses French North Africa and reclaimed French, Spanish and Portuguese coastal territories...
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  • social survey (1970). Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near...
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    Fortress Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks. France launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death...
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  • 1710s (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    officer (d. 1746) May 13 Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) Louis François de Monteynard, French soldier, statesman...
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    and the pope Giovanni Dionigi Galeni (1519–1587), farmer, then Ottoman privateer and admiral, who later became beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers, and...
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    Albanian piracy (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Jean-Louis d'Usson (known as De Bonnac) exchanged letters on the "privateers of Ulcinj" where French ships had been plundered. This led to Ibrahim Pasha, governor...
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