Invincible was a first-rate ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. Built on plans by Francois Guillaume Clairin Deslauriers at Rochefort as part of...
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A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name Invincible; among them: Invincible (1666), a 64-gun ship of the line Invincible (1674), a galley...
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Invincible. HMS Invincible (1747) was originally the French 74-gun ship of the line L'Invincible, captured...
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HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. Invincible was built during a period...
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HMS Inflexible (category Royal Navy ship names)
1903. HMS Inflexible (1907) was an Invincible-class battlecruiser launched in 1907 and sold for scrapping in 1921. Ships named Inflexible have earned the...
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Martinho (G) - Flagship of the "Invincible Armada" in 1588 São Mateus (G) - part of the Portuguese Squadron of the "Invincible Armada" São Cristóvão (G) -...
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captured a number of the early French 74-gun ships during the War of the Austrian Succession (for example, Invincible, captured at the first battle of...
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captured 1780) San Miguel 70 (1773, ex-Spanish San Miguel, captured 1780) Prothee 64 (1772, ex-French Protée, captured 1780) Converted to a Prison Ship 1799...
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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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On 4 January 1780 the fleet divided, with ships headed for the West Indies sailing westward. This left Rodney in command of 19 ships of the line, which...
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HMS Argo (category Royal Navy ship names)
in 1781. In 1783, she was captured by two French frigates, but was recaptured two days later by HMS Invincible. She was sold in 1816. HMS Argo (1833) was...
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Bretagne was a large 110-gun three-decker French ship of the line, built at Brest, which became famous as the flagship of the Brest Fleet during the American...
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list of ship launches in 1780 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1780. "French First Rate ship of the line 'Le Terrible' (1780)". Threedecks...
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both ships withdraw 1780, August 10 – HMS Flora defeats the French ship Nymphe in the first engagement thought to involve the carronade.(details) 1780, September...
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Napoleon (redirect from Napoleon I the Great of the French bibliography)
Napoleon moved to mainland France in 1779 and was commissioned as an officer in the French Royal Army in 1785. He supported the French Revolution in 1789, and...
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Spain and the Dutch Republic entered the war in 1780. Also the same year a large British convoy of 63 ships was captured by a Franco-Spanish fleet, which...
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Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
at the relief of Gibraltar by Lord Howe. In 1793 he commissioned the Invincible, and in her took part in the Glorious First of June, when his conduct...
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campaign against the French. There he showed himself a highly worthy commander, winning a succession of attacks against French ships, capturing in turn:...
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Louis Lhéritier (category Pages with French IPA)
Louis Lhéritier (French pronunciation: [lwi leʁitje]; 17 June 1747 – 15 December 1823) was a French Navy officer. He most notably took part in the Glorious...
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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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Sir Charles Saxton, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
American War of Independence, before taking command of the ship of the line HMS Invincible. After a brief period in the English Channel, he sailed to...
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distrust in the French forces, leading to the events of the Battle of Dakar. Eventually, several important French ships joined the Free French Forces. The...
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world's longest wooden ships. The vessels are sorted by ship length including bowsprit, if known. Finding the world's longest wooden ship is not straightforward...
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Battle of the Chesapeake (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
(1964) and Morrissey (1997)) do not list per-ship casualties for the French fleet. Larrabee reports the French to have suffered 209 casualties; Bougainville...
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List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes (redirect from David Dows (ship))
when the Invincible was lost, to the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point area alone has claimed at least 240 ships. Map all...
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Louis XIV (redirect from French King Louis XIV)
and Eugene of Savoy checked these victories and broke the myth of French invincibility. The duo allowed the Palatinate and Austria to occupy Bavaria after...
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Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
the French admiral de Guichen. The first of these was the Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780 where Rodney attempted to concentrate multiple ships against...
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HMS Triton (1773) (category 1773 ships)
8 January 1780 off Cape Finisterre. The British fleet of 24 ships encountered and attacked a Spanish convoy from Caracas comprising 22 ships, including...
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Maximilien Robespierre (category French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution)
Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely...
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