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Jean-Michel Mahé
Jean-Michel Mahé (12 October 1776, in Carhaix – 20 February 1833, in Nantes) was a French Navy officer and captain. Career Mahé started his career in the merchant Navy in 1789, and became an Midshipman in the Navy on 16 April 1794. He served on the fluyt ''Duras'' before embarking on '' Montagne'', flagship of Villaret-Joyeuse on which he took part in the Glorious First of June.Quintin, p. 254 From October 1794, he served on the frigate '' Fraternité'', on which he took part in the Battle of Groix on 23 June 1795 under Lieutenant Florinville. He then served on the brig-aviso ''Impatient'', the lugger ''Titus'', and the felucca ''Fort''. On 7 July 1797, he was promoted to Ensign and given command of the schooner ''Gentille'', escorting convoys off Bretagne. He served twice on the corvette ''Réolaise'', captained the gunboat ''Caroline'' in the summer of 1800, and returned on ''Impatient'' from October 1800 to January 1801. In February, he embarked on the frigate '' Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carhaix-Plouguer
Carhaix-Plouguer (; br, Karaez-Plougêr ), commonly known as just Carhaix (), is a commune in the French department of Finistère, region of Brittany, France.Commune de Carhaix-Plouguer (29024) INSEE The commune was created in 1957 by the merger of the former communes Carhaix and Plouguer. Geography 
Carhaix is located in the Poher, an important territory of Brittany, sandwiched between the Arrée Mountains to th ...
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Lamellerie's Expedition
Lamellerie's expedition was a French naval operation launched in February 1806. Four French Navy frigates and a brig, all survivors of the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, attempted to break past the British blockade of Cadiz on 23 February 1806, taking advantage of the withdrawal of the principal blockade squadron several months earlier at the start of the Atlantic campaign of 1806. Although the squadron was intercepted by elements of the British blockade force, Captain Louis-Charles-Auguste Delamarre de Lamellerie escaped with the four frigates by abandoning the slower brig, which was captured. During the next six months, Lamellerie's squadron cruised the Atlantic, visiting Senegal, Cayenne and the West Indies but failing to cause any significant disruption to British trade. On 27 July, as the squadron neared Rochefort, it was spotted by HMS ''Mars'', a Royal Navy ship of the line stationed off the port to intercept French ships entering or leaving. Signalling to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Navy Officers
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1833 Deaths
Events January–March * January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. * February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria. * February 16 – The United States Supreme Court hands down its landmark decision of Barron v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. * March 4 – Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. April–June * April 1 – General Antonio López de Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico by the legislatures of 16 of the 18 Mexican states. During his frequent absences from office to fight on the battlefield, Santa Anna turns the duties of government over to his vice president, Valentín Gómez Farías. * April 18 – Over 300 delegates from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland travel to the office of the Prime Minister, the Earl Grey, to cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1776 Births
Events January–February * January 1 – American Revolutionary War – Burning of Norfolk: The town of Norfolk, Virginia is destroyed, by the combined actions of the British Royal Navy and occupying Patriot forces. * January 10 – American Revolution – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense'', arguing for independence from British rule in the Thirteen Colonies. * January 20 – American Revolution – South Carolina Loyalists led by Robert Cunningham sign a petition from prison, agreeing to all demands for peace by the formed state government of South Carolina. * January 24 – American Revolution – Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga. * February 17 – Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. * February 27 – American Revolution – Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 5 November 1813
The action of 5 November 1813 was a brief naval clash during the Napoleonic Wars, between part of the British Mediterranean Fleet led by Vice-Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Sir Edward Pellew, and a French force under Rear-Admiral Julien Cosmao, Julien Cosmao-Kerjulien. The engagement took place outside the French port of Toulon. The clash occurred when a French fleet under Vice-Admiral Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger took advantage of a favourable wind and the temporary absence of the British blockading force, to leave port to carry out exercises. Émeriau abandoned the exercises when the wind changed, but while returning to port his rear came under attack from the recently returned British inshore squadron. The British attack was reinforced by newly arrived ships from the main fleet, but the French were able to escape into Toulon after exchanging cannon fire with the British. Casualties on both sides were light. Background The French Mediterranean Fleet had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Borée (1805)
''Borée'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Design and construction Designed based on plans by Jacques-Noël Sané, and updated by Maillot, she and her sister ( ''Pluton'') were the prototypes of a new variant of the ''Téméraire'' class designed to have a smaller draught, allowing the production of ships of the line in the shallow harbour of Antwerp. The construction of ''Borée'' was delayed due to a lack of timber, causing her completion date to fall behind that of , a sistership then under construction. ''Borée'' was retro-fitted with improvements introduced on ''Pluton''. Career In May 1805, ''Borée'' was commissioned and Captain Louis-André Senez took command on 29 August.Quintin, p.341-342 She was part of the Mediterranean squadron under Vice-Admiral Ganteaume, in Toulon. From February to April 1808, ''Borée'' took part in Ganteaume's expedition to Corfu. In April 1809, she took part in the escort of a convoy to Barcelona, in a division u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hannibal (1786)
HMS ''Hannibal'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1786, named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal. She is best known for having taken part in the Algeciras Campaign, and for having run aground during the First Battle of Algeciras on 5 July 1801, which resulted in her capture. She then served in the French Navy until she was broken up in 1824. Early service ''Hannibal'' was commissioned in August 1787, under Captain Roger Boger. In May 1790, ''Hannibal'' was recommissioned under Captain John Colpoys. She was recommissioned in August 1791, for service as a guardship at Plymouth. When war with France became increasing likely towards end of 1792, the guardships at the three naval seaports were ordered to rendezvous at Spithead. ''Hannibal'' and the other Plymouth-based ships left on 11 December and arrived at Spithead the next day. The guardships from the other ports took longer to arrive. On 15 February 1793, she and left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Basque Roads
The Battle of the Basque Roads, also known as the Battle of Aix Roads ( French: ''Bataille de l'île d'Aix'', also ''Affaire des brûlots'', rarely ''Bataille de la rade des Basques''), was a major naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in the narrow Basque Roads at the mouth of the Charente River on the Biscay coast of France. The battle, which lasted from 11–24 April 1809, was unusual in that it pitted a hastily-assembled squadron of small and unorthodox British Royal Navy warships against the main strength of the French Atlantic Fleet, the circumstances dictated by the cramped, shallow coastal waters in which the battle was fought. The battle is also notorious for its controversial political aftermath in both Britain and France. In February 1809 the French Atlantic Fleet, blockaded in Brest on the Breton coast by the British Channel Fleet, attempted to break out into the Atlantic and reinforce the garrison of Martinique. Sighted and chased by British blockade squadrons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Ville De Varsovie (1808)
The ''Ville de Varsovie'' was a ''Bucentaure''-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, designed by Chaumont from original plans by Sané. The ship was laid down at Arsenal de Rochefort in Rochefort, France, as ''Tonnant'' on 22 March 1805. In 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte established the Duchy of Warsaw and made a considerable effort to mobilize Polish national sentiment on France's behalf, and accordingly ''Tonnant'' was renamed ''Ville de Varsovie'' ("City of Warsaw") while still under construction. She was launched on 10 May 1808. Commissioned on 18 June 1808 under Captain Mahé, he became part of the Rochefort squadron. In April 1809, ''Ville de Varsovie'' was part of the French Atlantic Fleet blockaded in Basque Roads at the mouth of the Charente on the Biscay coast of France by a Royal Navy squadron. On the afternoon of 12 April, during the Battle of Basque Roads, ''Ville de Varsovie'' was aground on rocks at low tide in Basque Roads near Charenton when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Patriote (1785)
''Patriote'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was one of the French ships which had their hull doubled with copper. Career In 1786, ''Patriote'' was under Captain Renaud d'Aleins, flag captain to Chef d'Escadre Albert de Rions, with Major d'escadre Buor de La Charoulière also aboard. She was the flagship of the Escadre d'évolution that organised a naval review and a simulated naval battle for the visit of Louis XVI to Cherbourg Naval Base. From 1790 to 1791, ''Patriote'' was under Huon de Kermadec, part of the squadron under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. In September 1793, during the Siege of Toulon, she was taken by the British, who removed her armament and embarked the French sailors sympathetic to the Republic. Admiral Hood having agreed to transport them to a safe port, she then ferried them to Brest, where she arrived on 16 October.Quintin, p.84 In 1794 she took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, in the ''Croisière du Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinique
Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It has a land area of and a population of 364,508 inhabitants as of January 2019.Populations légales 2019: 972 Martinique INSEE One of the , it is directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of |
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