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    The action of 13 January 1797 (known by the French as the Naufrage du Droits de l'Homme; "shipwreck [or sinking] of the Droits de l'Homme") was a minor...
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    The action of 25 January 1797 was a minor naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in the Gulf of Cádiz. The Spanish third-rate ship of the...
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    is considered the birth of the flag of Italy). January 13Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal Navy frigates...
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    was able to drive the French ship of the line Droits de l'Homme ashore in the action of 13 January 1797 with the loss of over 1,000 lives. In total, the...
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  • Susan Pellew (category Wives of knights)
    was made Baron Exmouth of Canonteign in 1814. In 1797, as her husband's fame increased following the action of 13 January 1797, when Pellew's frigate...
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    War of the First Coalition: Italian Campaign 100km 62miles 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 Lodi 4 3 2 1    The Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797) was a key...
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    Frigate (category Ship designs of the Dutch Republic)
    all their guns (see the action of 13 January 1797, for an example when this was decisive). The Royal Navy captured a number of the new French frigates...
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    18-pounder long gun (category Naval guns of France)
    the firepower of a frigate when she fought the action of 13 January 1797 in stormy weather, leading to her destruction at the hand of two British frigates...
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  • Henry Hart (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    frigate HMS Indefatigable, participating in the action of 13 January 1797 before following Pellew to the ship of the line HMS Impetueux where he experienced...
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    frigates intercepted her. Similarly, during the action of 13 January 1797, the French 74-gun ship of the line Droits de l'Homme fought the British frigates...
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    French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794) (category Maritime incidents in 1797)
    stragglers from the fleet, and engaged Droits de l'Homme in the action of 13 January 1797. Heavily damaged by the British ships and unable to manoeuvre...
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    Robert Carthew Reynolds (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    Reynolds participated in the capture of the French frigate Unité. He was still under Pellew in the action of 13 January 1797 when Amazon, in company with HMS...
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    1790s (section 1797)
    flag (this is considered the birth of the flag of Italy). January 13Action of 13 January 1797, part of the War of the First Coalition: Two British Royal...
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    Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (category Articles with unsourced statements from January 2023)
    noted action was the action of 13 January 1797, cruising in company with HMS Amazon, when the British sighted the French 74-gun ship of the line Droits de...
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    Jean Joseph Amable Humbert (category People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798)
    in the action of 13 January 1797 during which Humbert, onboard the Droits de l'Homme, narrowly escaped death. As the ship was sunk, hundreds of men perished...
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    human error. Some of the disasters below occurred during periods of conflict, although their losses were unrelated to any military action. The table listings...
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    more frigates and destroyed the French ship of the line Droits de l'Homme at the action of 13 January 1797, ending the war as commander in chief in the...
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    the action of 13 January 1797. He was also responsible for building HMS Illustrious, a 74-gun third rate that was launched in July 1789. Two of the final...
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    HMS Indefatigable (1784) (category Use British English from January 2013)
    that month, Indefatigable fought her most famous battle. The Action of 13 January 1797 was an engagement off the Penmarks involving the two frigates...
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    chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
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    Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse (category Articles with unsourced statements from January 2022)
    failed, and on her journey back, the Droits de l'Homme fought the action of 13 January 1797 against two British frigates, the Indefatigable under Sir Edward...
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    in the action of 13 January 1797 when, in company with HMS Indefatigable, the frigates engaged and drove ashore the much larger French ship of the line...
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    The action of 26 April 1797 was a minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Spanish convoy of two frigates was trapped and...
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    at the hands of the blockade force at the Battle of Groix in the approaches to the port of Lorient, while at the action of 13 January 1797 the independently...
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    Jeremiah Coghlan (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    was also wounded in six places. For this action Earl St Vincent presented the youthful Irishman with a sword of 100 guineas value. He was promoted to lieutenant...
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  • Battle of La Favorita 16 January - France defeats Austria Action of 25 January 1797 - Spanish victory over Great Britain Bali Strait Incident 28 January -...
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    The action of 13 October 1796 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off the Mediterranean coast of Spain near Cartagena...
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    gunboats. One of his successors was Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rua, who was appointed to Algeciras in 1797 and took part in more than 41 actions against...
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    Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family. Anson was the second son of Thomas Anson...
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    Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (8 November 1715 – 13 January 1797) was Queen of Prussia (Queen in Prussia until 1772) and Electress of Brandenburg...
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