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    Ganteaume's expedition of 1795 was a French naval operation in the Aegean Sea in the autumn of 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Commanded by...
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    Rear-Admiral and given command of a squadron to supply the Army of Egypt, but in Ganteaume's expeditions of 1801, he engaged in months of complicated manoeuvres...
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    The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor...
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  • Thumbnail for Action of 8 March 1795
    action of 8 March 1795 was a minor naval engagement in the Mediterranean theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars. The action was part of series of battles...
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    death and withdrawal of French troops in the region. On a scientific front, the expedition was a success that led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone,...
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    of the Gulf of Roses, also known as action of 14 February 1795, was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought in the Gulf of Roses...
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    French ship Mont Blanc (1793) (category Ships of the line of the French Navy)
    Battle of Hyères Islands, and Ganteaume's expedition of 1795, and then became Mont Blanc again in 1796. She took part in Bruix' expedition of 1799 under...
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  • frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in November 1795 in Saint Servan. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and later served in Ganteaume's squadron...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Genoa (1795)
    Anglo-Neapolitan forces on 14 March 1795 in the Gulf of Genoa, a large bay in the Ligurian Sea off the coast of the Republic of Genoa, during the French Revolutionary...
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  • The Battle of the Levant Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 7 October 1795. During the battle, a powerful French...
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  • Thumbnail for Action of 24 June 1795
    The action of 24 June 1795 was a minor naval engagement fought in the Western Basin of the Mediterranean Sea on 24 June 1795 during the French Revolutionary...
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    port. A second squadron, Ganteaume's expedition, attacked British commerce in the Aegean Sea before returning to Toulon ahead of a pursuit squadron under...
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    Fleet on 13 July 1795 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Since the start of the war in 1793 the French fleet had suffered a series of damaging defeats...
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    property of French-supporters in Corsica, a violation of the terms of surrender. These divisions only widened as the relationship continued; in 1795 the British...
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    following a series of defeats in the War of the Pyrenees the Spanish signed a peace treaty in August 1795. A year later the Treaty of San Ildefonso brought...
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  • Thumbnail for Richery's expedition
    Richery's expedition was a French naval operation during 1795 and 1796 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The operation was led by Commodore (later...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Bastia
    The siege of Bastia was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars. The Corsican people...
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    morning, Lodi arrived at Alexandria. With the failure of Ganteaume's expeditions, she was one of the few French ships to penetrate the British blockade...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mykonos
    The Battle of Mykonos was a minor naval engagement fought in the main harbour of the Cycladic island of Mykonos on 17 June 1794 during the French Revolutionary...
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    fought in Agamemnon at the Battle of Genoa in 1795, was instrumental in the defeat of the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, and in...
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    Spanish ship Fenix (1749) (category Ships of the line of the Spanish Navy)
    Gibraltar by Ganteaume's force on 9 February 1801. Warren's squadron at the time comprised: Renown, Gibraltar, Dragon, Alexander, Généreux, Stately, of the line...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Calvi
    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...
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    The siege of San Fiorenzo (or siege of Saint-Florent ) was a British military operation, supported by Corsican partisans early in the French Revolutionary...
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    a minor naval engagement fought in the harbour of the Italian city of Genoa during the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars. French Republican...
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  • Jean Joseph François Sahuguet Damarzit de Laroche (category Governors of British Tobago)
    Admiral Ganteaume on his unsuccessful expedition to relieve the French troops stranded in Egypt. Suspended and arrested during the Reign of Terror for...
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  • declaration of war. Having previously been an ally of Britain, Spain had been forced to sign a peace treaty with the French Republic in August 1795 and subsequently...
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  • Thumbnail for Martin's cruise of 1794
    role at the action of 8 March 1795 and came under heavy fire at the Battle of the Hyères Islands trying to save a damaged French ship of the line. Alceste...
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    Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez (category Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy)
    became an officer and served under Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in his expedition to rescue Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and explore the...
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    HMS Sprightly (1778) (category Cutters of the Royal Navy)
    French squadron under Admiral Ganteaume about 40 miles south-west of Cape de Gata. During one of his expeditions, Ganteaume had called his squadron to a...
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    War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte 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...
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