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Jean-Marie Renaud
Jean-Marie Renaud (?— 16 February 1805) was a French Navy officer. He is mainly known as the commander at the action of 22 October 1794. Career With the rank of ship-of-the-line captain, Captain, Renaud commanded the India station, comprising the frigates French frigate Prudente (1790), ''Prudente'' and French frigate Cybèle (1790), ''Cybèle'', under Captain Pierre Julien Tréhouart, Tréhouart, as well as the brig French corvette Coureur (1782), ''Coureur'', under Lieutenant Garaud. In October 1794, Mauritius, île de France was blockaded by the British 50-gun HMS Centurion (1774), ''Centurion'', under Captain Samuel Osborne, and the 44-gun frigate HMS Diomede (1781), ''Diomede'', under Captain Matthew Smith. Renaud expressed the opinion that, since the British division was too strong to be defeated outright, he should attempt to inflict such damage to its ships that is would be forced to retreat for repairs and abandon the blockade. Taking responsibility for the operation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 22 October 1794
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Bien Mérité De La Patrie
''Bien mérité de la Patrie'' (French: "Well deserved the recognition of the Fatherland") is a French expression that qualifies national heroes. During the French Revolution, the phrase became a formula discerned as an award by the National Convention to deserving citizens. History During the Ancien Régime, the Monarchy bestowed awards to deserving subjects in the form of noble titles, precious swords personally awarded by the King, or membership in chivalric orders; in particular, the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis could be bestowed upon non-nobles. During the French Revolution, after the advent of the First French Republic, these customs fell in disfavour due to their monarchic connotations, and the anti-egalitarian sentiment of having special titles of nobility or awards that were only available for nobles. Thus, for instance, when Captain Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart was awarded a gold medal by the population of New York to commemorate the action of 31 July 1793 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cleopatra (1779)
HMS ''Cleopatra'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents. In the first engagement she was forced to surrender, but succeeded in damaging the French ship so badly that she was captured several days later, while ''Cleopatra'' was retaken. In the second she forced the surrender of a 40-gun frigate. After serving under several notable commanders she was broken up towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Construction ''Cleopatra'' was ordered on 13 May 1778 and was laid down on 6 July 1778 at the yards of James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol. She was launched on 26 November 1779 and had been completed by 9 September 1780. £9,202 (approximately £ at today's prices)was paid to the builder, with another £5,563.1.5d (approximately £ at today's prices)spent on dockyard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Milan (1805)
HMS ''Milan'' was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been ''Ville de Milan'', a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, but served for only a year before being chased down and engaged by the smaller 32-gun frigate . ''Ville de Milan'' defeated and captured her opponent, but suffered so much damage that she was forced to surrender without a fight several days later when both ships encountered , a British fourth rate. ''Milan'' went on to serve with the Royal Navy for another ten years, before being broken up in 1815, after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. Construction and French career ''Ville de Milan'' was built at Lorient to a one-off design by Antoine Geoffroy. She was originally named ''Hermione'', but was renamed after her launch; she was completed for service by February 1804. She was assigned to the West Indies and sailed from Martinique on 28 January under Captain Jean-Marie Renaud, bound for France with important despatches. On 16 Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hugues
Jean-Baptiste Victor Hugues sometimes spelled Hughes (July 20, 1762 in Marseille – August 12, 1826 in Cayenne) was a French politician and colonial administrator during the French Revolution, who governed Guadeloupe from 1794 to 1798, emancipating the island's slaves under orders from the National Convention. Early life and appointment Jean-Baptiste ''Victor'' Hugues was born to a rich family of Marseille's bourgeoisie, son of Jean-François Hugues (1725–1789), a salesman, and Catherine Fodrin (1729–1822), issued from a family of silk traders of Saint-Étienne. The family settled as colonists in Saint-Domingue at the beginning of the 1780s, but Victor was forced to return to France because of the Haitian Revolution. He was then appointed Procureur of the Comité de salut public in La Rochelle with the support of the local Jacobin Club. He was subsequently appointed governor of Guadeloupe, where he was ordered to apply the emancipation decrees which declared the end of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Sirène (1795)
The ''Sirène'' was a 40-gun ''Coquille'' class frigate of the French Navy. She took part in a number of campaigns and actions before she was badly damaged in a battle on 22 March 1808. Refloated after being beached to avoid capture, she was hulked. ''Sirène'' was broken up in 1825. French Revolutionary Wars Begun as ''Fidèle'', she was commissioned as ''Sirène'' in May 1795 under Lieutenant Charles Berrenger. She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande. On 17 December ''Sirène'' and the were sailing to France from Cayenne when they were able to capture the East Indiaman ''Calcutta'' off Madeira. Later that morning the three encountered and , which were escorting the West India convoy from Cork. ''Glenmore'' recaptured ''Calcutta'' while ''Aimable'' engaged ''Sirène'' and ''Bergère''. A 35-minute action ensued before the two French vessels departed. ''Sirène'' had as prisoners Captain Haggy, ''Calcutta''s master, her first and second mates, and 50 of her lascars and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Corvette Mutine (1799)
''Mutine'' was the name-vessel of her two-vessel class of corvettes designed by Charles-Henri Tellier. She was ordered as ''Nouvelle'' in 1797, but received the name ''Mutine'' at her launching in May 1799. She was wrecked near Santiago de Cuba on 17 August 1803 as a consequence of a single-ship action with . Career Her commander in 1799 was Captain Lambert. On 28 January 1801 HMS ''Bordelais'' was west of Barbados when she encountered two French brigs and a French schooner. They gave chase but then ''Bordelais'' turned. In the short engagement that followed she captured the larger of the brigs, ''Curieuse'', which sank within an hour or so of her capture. The two other French vessels escaped early in the engagement. Reportedly, the French "brig" that escaped was ''Mutine'', of sixteen 6-pounder guns and 156 men under the command of J. Reybaud (or Raybaun), and the French schooner was ''Espérance'', of six 4-pounder guns and 52 men under the command of Captain Haywood. Loss I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Corvette Aréthuse (1798)
''Aréthuse'', launched in April 1798, was the name-ship of the eponymous s of the French Navy. captured her in 1799. The Royal Navy took her into service under the name HMS ''Raven''. She was wrecked in 1804. French service Jean-François Gauthier designed her and she was the only vessel of her class. She carried only 18 cannon, though she was designed for 20. ''Aréthuse'' served between France and the Caribbean. On 9 October 1799 she was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Emmanuel Halgan on her way from Lorient for Cayenne with dispatches. She was sailing towards and her convoy when the 74-gun ''Excellent'', which was to windward of ''Impregnable'', spotted her. ''Excellent'' chased ''Aréthuse'', catching her during the night. Captain Robert Stopford of ''Excellent'' described ''Aréthuse'' as having eighteen 9-pounder guns and a crew of 153 men, all under the command of a ''lieutenant de vaisseau''. She was sailing from Lorient to Cayenne with dispatches tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Corette Pélagie (1795)
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National Convention
The National Convention (french: link=no, Convention nationale) was the parliament of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for the rest of its existence during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792, it was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether. The Convention sat as a single-chamber assembly from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar). The Convention came about when the Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention to draw up a new constitution with no monarchy. The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that Convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty-one years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship-of-the-line Captain
Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships. The rank is equal to the army rank of colonel and air force rank of group captain. Equivalent ranks worldwide include ship-of-the-line captain (e.g. France, Argentina, Spain), captain of sea and war (e.g. Brazil, Portugal), captain at sea (e.g. Germany, Netherlands) and " captain of the first rank" (Russia). The NATO rank code is OF-5, although the United States of America uses the code O-6 for the equivalent rank (as it does for all OF-5 ranks). Four of the uniformed services of the United States — the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps — use the rank. Etiquette Any naval officer who commands a ship is addressed by naval custom as "captain" while aboard in command, regardless of their actual rank, even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Diomede (1781)
HMS ''Diomede'' was a 44-gun fifth rate built by James Martin Hillhouse and launched at Bristol on 18 October 1781. She belonged to the of vessels specially built during the American Revolutionary War for service in the shallow American coastal waters. As a two-decker, she had two complete batteries of guns, one on the upper deck and the other on the lower deck. ''Diomede'' participated in two major actions. The first occurred in 1782 when she captured '' South Carolina'' of the South Carolina Navy. The second, the Battle of Île Ronde, took place in 1794 in the Indian Ocean. Although the action in the Indian Ocean was inconclusive and the French broke off contact after suffering much heavier casualties than the British, the French did succeed in breaking the blockade of Île de France and saved it from starvation. ''Diomede'' was wrecked in 1795 off Trincomalee, Ceylon, during the campaign to capture Trincomalé. Career In October 1781 ''Diomede'' was commissioned un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
