The Levant Fleet (French: Flotte du Levant) was the designation under the Ancien Regime for the naval vessels of the Royal French Navy in the Mediterranean...

as Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies until 1791, such as in the Levant Fleet and Flotte du Ponant of the Ancien Régime. Major of the French Navy has...

France. The fleet carried out operations such as asserting naval supremacy and protecting convoys. Its counterpart was the Levant Fleet, based in the...

The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south...

Squadron on 30 October 1936; and the Mediterranean Fleet on 1 July 1939. On the outbreak of war the fleet consisted of the 2nd Squadron (Vice Amiral d'Escadre...

United Kingdom of Great Britain, ships from their Levant Fleet sailed out to support a Spanish fleet, which was attempting to break through a two-year-old...

American Revolutionary War, Rohan was promoted to vice-admiral in the Levant Fleet, based at Toulon, but his actions at Saint-Domingue in 1768 and 1769...

Sea, where the Ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem had its own navy, the Levant Fleet, whose principal ports were Fréjus, Marseille, and Toulon. The Ordre...

The Levant Company was an English chartered company formed in 1592. Elizabeth I of England approved its initial charter on 11 September 1592 when the Venice...

At least six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Casabianca. Levant Fleet Flotte du Ponant "Casabianca". www.netmarine.net. Media related to Luc-Julien-Joseph...

separate Ministry of Merchant Marine. The two French royal fleets (the Ponant fleet and Levant fleet) were put under the control of Colbert from 1662, whilst...

In 1654, a second position of Lieutenant général was created for the Levant Fleet in Toulon. The rank was changed into Vice-amiral around 1792. Notes Citations...

Armies") for the Navy. Originally, two positions were created, one for the Levant Fleet in 1652 and one for the Flotte du Ponant in 1654. In France, under the...

into practice from 1631, with the creation of the Ponant fleet in the Atlantic and the Levant fleet in the Mediterranean, the foundation of the Brest dockyards...

elements. While still young, Pierre Arnoul was tasked with arming the Levant fleet, a challenging responsibility. He established a new dock in the port...

trade monopoly in seaport-towns that would be known as les Échelles du Levant. Foreign vessels had to trade with Turkey under the French banner, after...

Eastern Fleet. Rear-Admiral, Alexandria reported to the C-in-C, Med Fleet from November 1939 to February 1943 the officer then reports to C-in-C, Levant until...

November 1684). On his return from the Antilles, he won a new post with the Levant fleet which he had awaited since 4 November 1684, the date of his nomination...

created in 1669 by Naval State Secretary Colbert and attached to the Levant Fleet. The regiment became the 61st Infantry Regiment in 1671 (French: 61e...

The Commander-in-Chief, Levant was a senior administrative shore commander of the Royal Navy. The post was established in February 1943 when the British...

the Eastern Fleet. Later the Eastern Fleet became the East Indies Fleet. In 1952, after the Second World War ended, the East Indies Fleet became the Far...

off Marseilles and ravaged Corsica. But it did have to face the French Levant Fleet and the Knights of Malta, who scored a minor victory against Algerian...

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Fatḥ al-šām; lit. "Conquest of Syria"), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638...

fleet, stopping all English trade with the Baltic. In the Mediterranean the English Levant fleet was trapped at Leghorn, and an English relief fleet was...

Mediterranean to the Levant and beyond; Venice's commercial and military strength, and continued survival, was founded on the strength of its fleet. This allowed...

1840 was a treaty with the title of Convention for the Pacification of the Levant, signed on 15 July 1840 between the Great Powers of United Kingdom, Austria...

of the fleet was not resumed. On the contrary, it sought to reduce costs, including the number of sailors and clerical officers. In the Levant, the management...

governor of Brest, and later vice-Admiral of France in charge of the Levant Fleet Innocent de Roquefeuil was colonel of the Roquefeuil regiment and took...

Islands. Formed in August 1914 from the First Fleet and part of the Second Fleet of the Home Fleets, the Grand Fleet included 25–35 modern capital ships. It...

conquest of Syria in 1516, the Ottoman fleet of Selim I started expanding the Ottoman territories towards the Levant and the Mediterranean coasts of North...