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    Napoleonic France, the Royal Navy dominated the seas. France adopted a guerre de course strategy by licensing civilian privateers to seize British shipping...
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  • Bibliography Roche, Jean-Michel (2005a). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    Steam frigate (redirect from Steam sloop)
    frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were...
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    class was the third, and largest, of the five sub-classes of minesweeping sloops completed under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World...
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    ISBN 0-948864-30-3. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau...
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  • ISBN 0-948864-30-3 Roche, Jean-Michel (2005) Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la Flotte de Guerre Française de Colbert à nos Jours. (Group Retozel-Maury Millau). Winfield...
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    case of a merchant ship: A merchant ship may strike its colors as a ruse de guerre in an attempt to escape capture, since it does not engage the enemy in...
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    The Chamois class were French minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines) ordered between 1935 and 1939. They were similar in design to the Élan class...
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  • ISBN 0-948864-30-3. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    (captained by Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot) and the sloop Le Sphinz (Sphinx) (captained by François Chenard de la Giraudais). This expedition included the naturalist...
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    privateer sloop Montgomery 200 miles off Sandy Hook (39°00′N 72°00′W / 39.000°N 72.000°W / 39.000; -72.000). On 11 February she captured sloop Dolphin...
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    British sloop HMS Challenger. Lloyd's List №4093. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à...
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    Shoreham-class sloop HMS Milford discovered the Vichy Redoutable-class submarine Poncelet shadowing the Anglo-French task force and gave chase. The sloop was too...
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    idea and legal framework for the Q-ship derives from the classic ruse de guerre of "sailing under false colours". As a long standing element of naval...
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  • HMS Alert (1777) (category Age of Sail sloops)
    Alert was a 10-gun cutter launched at Dover in 1777 that was converted to a sloop in the same year. On 19 September 1777, during the American War of Independence...
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    Publishing. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    ISBN 9-782737-308642. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005a). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    Wilson). Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau...
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    Mediterranean. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6....
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    ISBN 0-85177-685-X. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. Tome I: 1671–1870. Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6...
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  •  1978. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    SPM. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau....
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    The Latouche-Tréville was a wooden-hulled steam sloop aviso of the French Navy, a sistership to the D'Estaing. They were designed by Louis Dutard for...
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    décisions irrévocables: 10 juin 1940, l'Italie entre en guerre". Histoire(s) de la Dernière Guerre. 5. Zamagni, Vera (1998). "Italy: How to Lose the War...
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    français du XIXe siècle (Paris, 2005) Huard, La guerre du Tonkin (Paris, 1887) Loir, M., L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet (Paris, 1886) Lung Chang [龍章],...
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