''Charlemagne'' was an 80-gun

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...

commissioned in 1852. The ship was in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on ...

in 1852.Calhoun. Pg 13 The ship was sent by

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A neph ...

to the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

as a show of force in violation of the London Straits Convention just prior to the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...

.Royle. Pg 19

Notes

References

* Calhoun, Gordon "The Flagship's Roman Holiday, USS Cumberland's 1850s Mediterranean Cruises" ''The Day Book Vol 10 Issue 2'' Hampton Roads Naval Museum * Royle, Trevor ''Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856'' (2000) Palgrave Macmillan Ships of the line of the French Navy 1852 ships Ships built in France Crimean War naval ships of France {{France-line-ship-stub