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    The siege of Calvi was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the Invasion of Corsica in the early stages of the French Revolutionary...
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    12 – Horatio Nelson loses the sight in his right eye in the British Siege of Calvi in Corsica. July 13 – Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and...
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    Lieutenant-General Charles Stuart captured the city in the Siege of Calvi in 1794. It was during the bombardment of Calvi that Nelson sustained the injury that cost him...
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    then laid siege to the last French-held fortress on the island, at Calvi, which was bombarded for two months, finally surrendering in August 1794. Corsica...
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    driven into three fortified towns on the northern coast; San Fiorenzo, Calvi, and Bastia and Paoli appealed to the British Royal Navy's Mediterranean...
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  • Coalition Siege of Ypres (1794) – War of the First Coalition Siege of Calvi (1794) – War of the First Coalition Siege of Luxembourg (1794–95) – War of...
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    Martin's cruise of 1794 was the only significant French naval operation of the year in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1793 France had gone to war with Great...
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  • notable French captains commanded her before the British captured her at Calvi in 1794 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Mignonne. She was burnt in 1797...
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  • Toulon. Between 20 and 21 April 1793, Proselyte, capitaine de vaisseau Boubennec, helped defend Calvi from the partisans under the leadership of the Corsican...
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    Séverin – died in 1794 at Toulon from wounds received at the battle of Calvi Jean Charles – general, died in 1796 at Huningue. Antoine – chef de bataillon, died...
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    200km 125miles 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 Lodi 5 4 3 2 Toulon 1    The siege of Toulon (29 August – 19 December 1793) was a military engagement that...
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    French Revolutionary Wars (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    for assistance capturing French garrisons at Saint-Florent, Bastia, and Calvi, creating the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom. By the end of the year...
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    of the Committee of Public Safety and its leader, Maximilien de Robespierre (28 July 1794). During the political chaos that ensued in the French army,...
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    returned to active service. On 23 May 1794, he took command of the army in Corsica, and supervised the taking of Calvi (the action in which Horatio Nelson...
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    anchoring south of Calvi on 18 June. After Hood arrived with additional ships, Agamemnon contributed guns and men to the 51-day siege of Calvi, during which...
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  • Victor César Eugène (1907). Les opérations militaires sur la Sambre en 1794: Bataille de Fleurus (in French). Paris: R Chapelot et Cie. Wikimedia Commons has...
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  • Revolutionary Wars) Battle of Tourcoing – 1794 – War of the First Coalition (French Revolutionary Wars) Siege of Calvi1794 – War of the First Coalition (French...
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  • British victory over France Siege of Calvi 17 June-10 August - Anglo-Corsican victory over France Battle of Fleurus (1794) 26 June – French army, under...
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    brought Calvi under constant bombardment, and the town surrendered on 10 August. Nelson did regain partial sight in his damaged eye after the siege, but...
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    King George III, chiefly by the exertions of Hood's fleet (e.g. in the Siege of Calvi), and Paoli's co-operation. This period has become known as the "Anglo-Corsican...
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    reduced to Bonifacio and Calvi. In 1421, Alfonso V of Aragon landed with a large fleet to take possession of his "kingdom." He took Calvi, but Bonifacio held...
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    concerned itself with the invasion of Corsica, particularly the sieges of Bastia and Calvi. In March 1795 the French fleet again put to sea suffering a minor...
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    Clavarezza, Da Passano, De Ferrari, De Fornari, De Marini, Di Negro, Ferreti, Franzoni, Frugoni, Garbarino, Giudice Calvi, Odone, Saluzzo, Senarega...
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    invasion of Corsica was planned in 1794, with successful sieges at San Fiorenzo in February, Bastia in April and Calvi in July–August. During these operations...
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    December 1798 Battle of Civita Castellana, and two military affairs, first at Calvi Risorta and then on 3 January 1799 at Capua, and then by 10 January 1799...
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    service in the French Revolutionary Wars and took part in the Siege of Calvi in July 1794. It returned to Gibraltar in 1797 and moved to Menorca in 1799...
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    Étranger de Génie (2ème REG), based in St Christol, France Pionniers Groups 2e Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes (2ème REP), based in Calvi, Corsica...
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  • The regiment left Civita Vecchia in May 1794; took part in the operations in Corsica ending with the fall of Calvi in August, and was ordered home in November...
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  • Colonel John Moore, and took part in the siege of Toulon in autumn 1793 and the siege of Calvi in July 1794. In early 1800 the East Indiaman Earl Cornwallis...
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    they were meant to link up with the forces of Nugent. Pietro Fortunato Calvi [it] was sent to the rebels by the Republic of San Marco to lead the men...
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