HMS Racehorse (1806)
HMS ''Racehorse'' was a Royal Navy 18-gun built by Hamilton & Breeds and launched in 1806 at Hastings. She served in the English Channel, where she captured a small privateer, and in the East Indies, where she participated in the capture of Isle de France (Mauritius), Isle de France (now Mauritius) and the operations around it. She was wrecked in 1822. Service ''Racehorse'' was commissioned in March 1806 under Commander Robert Forbes, who sailed her for the Mediterranean on 25 May. By June 1807 she was under Captain William Fisher (Royal Navy officer), William Fisher, cruising in the Channel. ''Racehorse'' was among the vessels that detained the Danish ships ''Die Twende Softre'' on 28 August, and ''Swannen'' on 7 September. On 4 December she recaptured the Portuguese ship ''Gloria''. On 2 March 1808 ''Racehorse'' captured the French privateer lugger ''Amiral Gantheaume'' off the Seven Islands, which are 16 miles west of Behat. ''Amiral Gantheume'' was armed with four guns an ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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