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    The Battle of Sadras was the first of five largely indecisive naval battles fought between a British fleet (under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes) and...
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    Sadras is a fortress town located on India's Coromandel Coast in Chengalpattu district, 70 km south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state. Sadras is the anglicised...
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    without consideration for the order of battle, and at 1500 he closed in within gun range, starting the Battle of Sadras. Suffren sustained about 30 men killed...
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    Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782...
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  • Battle of Sadras, Suffren transferred Tromelin-Lanuguy to Pourvoyeuse, replacing Lieutenant de Ruyter. Tromelin-Lanuguy took part in the Battle of Providien...
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    raised anchor and sailed after Suffren. In the Battle of Sadras, both fleets suffered damage without loss of ships, but the French were able to safely land...
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    on parts of his opponent's line in some of his actions with the British fleet in the East Indies in 1782 and 1783, such as the Battle of Sadras where Suffren...
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    Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Strachan was present at the first of four actions that took place between Sir Edward Hughes and de Suffren, the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782. After acquitting...
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  • rulers of Mysore. Suffren fought in the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April near Trincomalee and the Battle of Negapatam...
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  • The following is an incomplete list of famous French naval battles from the Middle Ages to modern France....
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  • earned by an individual ship, and inherited by subsequent ships of the name. Sadras 1758 Negapatam 1758 Porto Novo 1759 Arctic 1942-43 Sicily 1943 Salerno...
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  • Charles Gaspard Hyacinthe de Forbin La Barben (category Year of death missing)
    during the War of American Independence, captaining the 64-gun Vengeur at the Battle of Porto Praya on 16 April 1781, the Battle of Sadras on 17 February...
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    rulers of Mysore. Suffren fought in the Battle of Sadras on February 17, 1782, the Battle of Providien on April 12 near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam...
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  • 3 March. He saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the Anglo-French War and again at the Battle of Providien in April 1782 during...
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    George Murray (Royal Navy officer, born 1759) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    Hughes's fleet off the coast of India at the Battle of Sadras on 15 February 1782, and at the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782. Murray moved aboard...
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  • Essequibo from Great Britain Battle of St. Kitts 25–26 January – British outmaneuver French but unable to save island. Battle of Sadras 17 February – French admiral...
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  • Anne René Augustin de Roscanvec de La Landelle (category Year of death unknown)
    the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, at the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, at the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, and at the Battle of Trincomalee...
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  • 1747 Sadras 1758 Negapatam 1758 Porot Novo 1759 The Saints 1782 Jutland 1916 Falklands 1982 Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal...
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    1782 and immediately engaged the British fleet of Vice-Admiral Hughes in the inconclusive Battle of Sadras. After both fleets spent time in port repairing...
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  • battle honours: Portland, 1653 Gabbard, 1653 Lowestoft, 1665 Orfordness, 1666 Barfleur, 1692 Gibraltar, 1704 Velez Malaga, 1704 Ushant, 1747 Sadras,...
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  • in the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, the Battle of Trincomalee...
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  • the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, at the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, at the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782, and at the Battle of Trincomalee...
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    and immediately engaged the British fleet of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes in the inconclusive Battle of Sadras. After both fleets spent time in port repairing...
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  • HMS Eagle (1774) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    to take part in the Battle of Cuddalore in 1783. Eagle was on harbour service from 1790, and was broken up in 1812. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p...
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  • Jean-Anne Christy de la Pallière (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, in the Battle of Providien on 12 April 1782, in the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782 and in the Battle of Trincomalee...
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    Edward Hughes (Royal Navy officer) (category British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Mysore War)
    capture of Portobelo, Panama. In 1740, he was promoted to lieutenant and served in the Cartagena expedition of 1741, and at the indecisive Battle of Toulon...
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    Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    de Ruyter took command of Pourvoyeuse. Morard commanded Petit Annibal in the Battle of Sadras on 17 February 1782, the Battle of Providien on 12 April...
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    This is a chronological list of battles involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792). For pre-987 battles, see List of battles involving the Franks and Francia...
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    of Ushant February 17, 1782 Battle of Sadras April 9–12, 1782 Battle of the Saintes August 19, 1782 Battle of Blue Licks 1794 Whiskey Rebellion Slave...
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  • French corvette Lawriston (1778) (category Corvettes of the French Navy)
    her on 16 February 1782, during the prelude of the Battle of Sadras. Lawriston was carrying a large part of the field artillery for the French army in...
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