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Pierre Vanstabel
Pierre Jean Van StabelSometimes written "Vanstabel" (8 November 1744 in DunkirkLevot, p.528 – 30 March 1797 in DunkirkLevot, p.528) was a French naval officer and rear-admiral, famous for his role in the Glorious First of June. Career Van Stabel was born to a family of sailors and started a career in the merchant navy at the age of fourteen,Hennequin, p.271 steadily rosing to the rank of sea captain. In 1778, with the intervention of France in the American Revolutionary War, Van Stabel enlisted in the French Royal Navy as an auxiliary officer. Service on ''Rohan Soubise'' Van Stabel took command of the privateer ''Dunkerquoise''Préparation Militaire Marine de Dunkerque ''Amiral Pierre Vanstabel''
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Antoine Maurin
Antoine Maurin (19 December 1771 – 4 October 1830) commanded a French cavalry division in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars and in 1815 led his troops against the Prussians at Ligny where he was wounded. His army service began in 1792 during the French Revolution when he enlisted in a cavalry regiment as a trooper. He spent his entire military career as a cavalryman. During the French Revolutionary Wars he advanced through the ranks and became commander of a light cavalry regiment in 1802. While only a colonel, he commanded a brigade at Caldiero in October 1805. He fought in the Friedland campaign in 1807 and attained the rank of general officer that year. As a cavalry brigadier, he participated in the 1807 Invasion of Portugal but was captured in 1808 and held until 1812. He led a brigade in 1813 and a division 1814 during the War of the Sixth Coalition. After fighting for Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he retired in 1823. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the A ...
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French Ship Tigre (1793)
''Tigre'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Later it was captured by the British and, as HMS ''Tigre'', operated as part of the Royal Navy throughout the Napoleonic Wars. French service Her first captain was Pierre Jean Van Stabel. When Van Stabel was promoted, she became the flagship of his 6-ship squadron. She notably fought in 1793 to rescue the French frigate , along with the ship of the line . Under Jacques Bedout, she took part in the Battle of Groix where she was captured by the British. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Tigre''. British service Under the Royal Navy she assisted in the defence of Acre during Bonaparte's siege. Her crew qualified for the clasp "Acre 30 May 1799" to the Naval General Service Medal authorised in 1850 for all surviving claimants (27 awarded). On 8 January 1801 captured the French bombard ''St. Roche'', which was carrying wine, liqueurs, ironware, Delfth cloth, and various other merchandise, from Marsei ...
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ...
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Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula (including the parts: the Eastern Shore of Maryland / Eastern Shore of Virginia and the state of Delaware) with its mouth of the Bay at the south end located between Cape Henry and Cape Charles (headland), Cape Charles. With its northern portion in Maryland and the southern part in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others surrounding within its watershed. More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the Bay's drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) and all of District of Columbia. The Bay is approximately long from its northern headwaters in the Susquehanna River to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocea ...
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French Frigate Embuscade (1789)
''Embuscade'' ("Ambush") was a 32-gun frigate. She served in the French Navy during the War of the First Coalition before being captured by the British. Renamed HMS ''Ambuscade'' and later HMS ''Seine'', she participated in the Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy. She was broken up in 1813. French service ''Embuscade'', launched in 1789, was constructed in Rochefort. Her captain was Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart, a former privateer who fought in the American War of Independence. In 1792, she escorted convoys to and from Martinique, and ferried Edmond-Charles Genêt to the United States. During the early years of the war, she raided British shipping along the American east coast. ''Embuscade'' arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, on 8 April 1793. She brought Edmond-Charles Genêt to take up his post as the French ambassador to the United States. Then on 31 July, she fought and severely damaged at the action of 31 July 1793. ''Embuscade'' returned to France a year later and ...
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Maxime Julien Émeriau De Beauverger
Maxime Julien Émeriau de Beauverger (20 October 1762 in Carhaix – 2 February 1845 in Toulon) was a French Navy officer and admiral. Biography American War of Independence Emeriau joined the Navy in 1776, just before the outbreak of the American War of Independence, taking service on the fluyt ''Sylphe''. He took part in the Battle of Ushant on the ''Intrépide'' in 1778. He was then transferred on the ''Diadème'', in Admiral d'Estaing's fleet, taking part in the Battle of Grenada, where he was wounded, and in the Siege of Savannah, where one of his eyes was wounded. Emeriau served under Lamotte-Picquet during the Battle of Martinique. After rising to ''lieutenant de frégate'', he took part in the campaigns of Admiral de Grasse, serving aboard a number of ships. He took part in the Battle of St. Kitts and in the Battle of the Saintes, where he was twice wounded. After the Treaty of Paris, Emeriau sailed with the commerce. In 1786, Emeriau returned to the Navy ...
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John Jervis, 1st Earl Of St Vincent
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson. Despite having a fierce reputation for discipline his crews had great affection for him, calling him Old Jarvie. Jervis was also recognised by both political and military contemporaries as a fine administrator and naval reformer. As Commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean, between 1795 and 1799 he introduced a series of severe standing orders to avert mutiny. He applied those orders to both seamen and officers alike, a policy that made him a controve ...
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French Brig Ballon (1782)
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French Frigate Sémillante (1792)
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French Frigate Insurgente (1793)
''L'Insurgente'' was a 40-gun of the French Navy, launched in 1793. During the Quasi War with the United States, the United States Navy frigate , with Captain Thomas Truxtun in command, captured her off the island of Nevis. After her capture she served in the United States Navy as USS ''Insurgent'', patrolling the waters in the West Indies. In September 1800 she was caught up in a severe storm and was presumed lost at sea. French frigate ''L'Insurgente'' ''L'Insurgente'' was built by Pierre-Joseph Pénétreau at Lorient and launched on 27 April 1793.Demerliac (1996), p.68, No. 421. In January or February 1794, ''L'Insurgente'' captured ''Ann'' off Cape Clear Island as ''Ann'' was sailing from Newfoundland to Bristol. ''L'Insurgente'' put a prize crew aboard ''Ann'', but left her mate and three other men on board. When ''Ann'' was in sight of the French coast, the British sailors succeeded in recapturing her from the prize crew; the British then took ''Ann'' into Vigo. On 16 ...
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French Ship Révolution (1793)
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French Ship Aquilon (1789)
''Aquilon'' was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She served off Italy in Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Brueys' squadron under Captain Antoine-René Thévenard, and took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she fought , and . She was captured and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Aboukir''. See also * List of ships of the line of France References * External links

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