HMS Vengeur (1810)
HMS ''Vengeur'' was a 74-gun third rate, third-rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 June 1810 at Harwich Dockyard, Harwich. She had an uneventful career, having participated in no battles or engagements. Service On 30 August 1810, Captain Thomas Brown took command of ''Vengeur'', the flagship of Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke. Brown escorted to Portugal a large body of troops sent as reinforcements to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington's army there. ''Vengeur'' then cruised the Western Isles to protect an inbound fleet of East Indiaman, East Indiamen. Brown's replacement in November 1811 was Captain James Brisbane. Robert Tristram Ricketts took command of ''Vengeur'' in October 1813. ''Vengeur'', , and were in company on 6 March 1814 at the recapture of the ''Diamond''. In May 1814, the 9th Regiment of Foot marched from Bayonne to Bordeaux and embarked on HMS York (1807), ''York'' and ''Vengeur'' to sail to Quebec to lend support to the Bri ...
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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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