Courageuse was a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy, completed in 1794 and renamed Justice in April 1795. The British and Ottomans captured...

Régénérée was a 40-gun Cocarde-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her in 1801 at the fall of Alexandria, named her HMS Alexandria...

This article is a list of French naval frigates during the Age of Sail, from the middle of the 17th century (when the type emerged) until the close of...

Haiti from the French. June 17 The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom is established. Battle of Mykonos: The British Royal Navy captures French frigate Sibylle. June...

stall the destruction of the French fleet. The situation in Europe remained volatile into 1794. Off northern France, the French Atlantic Fleet had mutinied...

Diane was a 38-gun frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1796. She participated in the battle of the Nile, but in August 1800 the Royal Navy captured...

January 1807, in the company of the sloop HMS Harrier (Capt. Justice Finley) and the frigate HMS Java (Capt. George Pigot), the latter recently captured...

Events from the year 1794 in the United States. President: George Washington (no political party-Virginia) Vice President: John Adams (Federalist Party-Massachusetts)...

was a confrontation in the War in the Vendée which took place on 3 January 1794 between the Republicans and the Vendeans for control of the island of Noirmoutier...

class of ten 40-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Jacques-Noël Sané. An eleventh vessel (Zephyr) begun in 1794 was never completed...

American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars. In his youth he was renowned as an efficient and able frigate officer and in later life became...

the surrender, passing on to attack the next French ship in line, and the French frigates Alceste and Justice attempted to pass a tow rope to Alcide and...

and leaves Egypt with a small party aboard the frigate La Muiron. August 29: Pope Pius VI dies, a French prisoner, in Valence. August 29: Championnet,...

prevent the frigate Justice from boarding Bellerophon, which was anchored at the southern point of the bay undergoing hasty repairs. Two other French ships...

When the French government secretly sent funds to America. The Americans built a frigate at Amsterdam, and another at Nantes. The French also contributed...

nation's coast defenses from 1794 to 1807, which is known as the First System of U.S. fortifications. A blockhouse was added in 1794, with further rebuilding...

by gales and detached a squadron of frigates under Sir Edward Pellew to watch the port. On 16 December, the French attempted to escape at dusk, the Brest...

Directory (also called Directorate, French: le Directoire) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 26 October 1795 (4...

France. The French navy captured the Spanish brig Infante in December 1793, and brought into French service under her existing name. In January 1794, she was...

program to construct eighty vessels and forty-five new frigates, which would allow the French fleet, combined with the allied Spanish fleet, to outnumber...

was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy launched in 1794, the name ship of a four-vessel class. She was part of the French fleet active in the Bay of Biscay...

the different races. The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794. Terms of capitulation were drawn...

Wilson was given command of the frigate HMS Inconstant during the Spanish Armament and then at the beginning of the French Revolutionary War, the ship of...

Emerald was a 36-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate that Sir William Rule (Surveyor of the Navy) designed in 1794 for the Royal Navy. The Admiralty ordered...

first officer. He distinguished himself during the action of 8 June 1794 where the frigate Alceste was captured, and transferred on Alceste as her new captain...

a thirty-eight gun, fifth rate vessel originally captured from the French in 1794, being finally decommissioned in 1815. Subsequently, he served on Pallas...

leg on the memorable 1st of June, 1794, and who was cut off in the prime of life, while commanding the Statira frigate, on the Halifax station, on 17 November...

methods—the Jay Treaty of 1794 was much too favorable to Britain and thus threatened American values. Regarding the French Revolution, its devotion to...

the United States Congress passed the Naval Act of 1794 for the construction of six heavy frigates, the first ships of the Navy. The United States Navy...

Congress passed the Naval Armament Act on March 27, 1794, authorizing construction of six frigates (to be built by Joshua Humphreys). These ships were...