HMS America (1810)
HMS ''America'' was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1810 at Blackwall Yard. In 1812 she was part of a British squadron consisting of the frigate , and ''Swallow'' when they intercepted a French convoy that had left Genoa on 11 June, heading for Toulon. The convoy consisted of 14 merchant vessels, several gunboats, and most importantly, the brig-corvette , of 16 guns, under the command of ''Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Charles Baudin, and the schooner ''Goéland'', of 12 guns, under the command of ''Enseigne de vaisseau'' Belin. The British on 15 June drove the French to take shelter at the Île Sainte-Marguerite. The next day ''Swallow'' came close to reconnoitre, the other two British ships having to hold off because of shallow water. Although the French escorts came out when they saw ''Swallow'' becalmed, they then turned back when the winds picked up and took their convoy to Fréjus. There the French escort vessels took on board some ...
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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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