French Frigate Charmante (1777)
''Charmante'' was a 32-gun of the French Navy, lead ship of Charmante class frigate, her class. Career In 1778, under Lieutenant Henri Pantaléon de Mac Nemara, ''Charmante'' cruised in the Caribbean, arriving at Fort-de-France, Fort RoyalPresent-day Fort-de-France on 23 June 1778. On 1 September, as ''Charmante'' was escorting a convoy from Port-au-Prince around Saint-Domingue along with French frigate Dédaigneuse (1766), ''Dédaigneuse'', she encountered the British frigate HMS Active (1758), HMS ''Active'', under Captain William Peere Williams-Freeman, Williams-Freeman,Winfield (2007), p.229. and captured her. On 16 February 1780, under Baron de la Haye, she was part of a squadron comprising the 64-gun French ship Ajax (1779), ''Ajax'' and French ship Protée (1772), ''Protée'', as well as the fluyt French fluyt Éléphant (1779), ''Éléphant''. In the action of 24 February 1780, the convoy encountered a British force under George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, George ...
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Flag Of France (1814–1830)
The national flag of France (french: link=no, drapeau français) is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue ( hoist side), white, and red. It is known to English speakers as the ''Tricolour'' (), although the flag of Ireland and others are also so known. The design was adopted after the French Revolution; while not the first tricolour, it became one of the most influential flags in history. The tricolour scheme was later adopted by many other nations in Europe and elsewhere, and, according to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' has historically stood "in symbolic opposition to the autocratic and clericalist royal standards of the past". Before the tricolour was adopted the royal government used many flags, the best known being a blue shield and gold fleur-de-lis (the Royal Arms of France) on a white background, or state flag. Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia, which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille, wore a cockade of blue ...
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