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    Vengeur du Peuple ("Avenger of the People") was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Chamber...
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    Achille and Vengeur du Peuple. This manoeuvre failed when Brunswick's anchors became entangled in Vengeur's rigging. Harvey's master asked if Vengeur should...
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    known for captaining the Vengeur du Peuple at the Fourth Battle of Ushant. Renaudin was born to a modest family of Saint-Martin du Gua, and joined the merchant...
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    at the Battle of Trafalgar. It was also wrongly claimed that the Vengeur du Peuple had done so during the Glorious First of June, when she had in fact...
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    of June where she fought a hard action against the French 74-gun Vengeur du Peuple. Brunswick was in a small squadron under William Cornwallis that encountered...
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    Marseillais) was renamed Vengeur du Peuple ("Avenger of the People) in February 1794, and was often referred to simply as Vengeur – this ship fought, and...
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    and raked Vengeur du Peuple twice, killing dozens of her crew and finally driving the ships apart. Both resembled wrecks, Vengeur du Peuple clearly sinking...
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    for her; in the opposite case, during the Glorious First of June, Vengeur du Peuple used her main batteries but became unmanageable and sank after taking...
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    paper as well as a particularly fine bone model of the French warship Vengeur du Peuple which was built around 1800 by French prisoners of war, a Children's...
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    Jules Vallès (redirect from Cri du Peuple)
    after hearing himself condemned to six months in prison, and his Le Cri du Peuple which he had started on February 22, banned from further appearance. On...
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    Mémoires du Sud – Editions Equinoxe. ISBN 2841352056. OCLC 51607247. Diaz de Soria, Ollivier-Zabulon (1954). Le Marseillois, devenu plus tard le Vengeur du peuple...
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    the "Marseillaise". Un député du Peuple 1. La victoire en chantant Nous ouvre la barrière. La Liberté guide nos pas. Et du Nord au Midi La trompette guerrière...
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    role. Laid down as Peuple in covered basin no.3 at Brest Dockyard in October 1793, she was renamed as Vengeur after the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 in...
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    were saved but nine of these died on the beach. 358 1794  France Vengeur du Peuple – In the battle named the Glorious First of June on 1 June the ship...
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  • officer on the 74-gun Vengeur du Peuple, still under his cousin. He took part in the Glorious First of June, survived the sinking of Vengeur and was taken prisoner...
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    Thésée and Superbe, foundered for a similar reason. The loss of Vengeur du Peuple and the Third Battle of Ushant was also probably caused by seawater...
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    (launched 16 July 1766 at Toulon, designed by Joseph Chapelle) – renamed Vengeur du Peuple in February 1794, sunk by the British in the Glorious First of June...
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    engagements took place—particularly that between HMS Brunswick and Vengeur du Peuple. At least twelve ships were dismasted, with the British battleships...
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    works: le Vengeur du Peuple au combat de prairial, in 1795, depicting the highly romanticised tale of the sinking of the French ship Vengeur du Peuple; and...
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    in the battle, during which the Brunswick sank the French ship Le Vengeur du Peuple and disabled the Achille. At the end of December 1794, a battalion...
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    contre-amiral Jean François Renaudin, recently promoted for his defence of Vengeur du Peuple at the Glorious First of June, ferry ammunition from Brest to Toulon...
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    the port side of the 74 gun Vengeur du Peuple, sinking after a long and fatal duel with the Brunswick, and beyond Vengeur are other ships' topsails, just...
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    Soria, Ollivier-Zabulon (1954). Le Marseillois, devenu plus tard le Vengeur du peuple. F. Robert et fils. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments...
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    The Glorious First of June (known in France as Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 and sometimes called the Third Battle of Ushant) of 1794 was the first and...
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    dignes du meilleur des maîtres (...). Il n'est point de bon Français qui ne se sente animé du désir de tout sacrifier pour concourir aux efforts du roi et...
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    rescue party that saved hundreds of French sailors from the sinking Vengeur du Peuple. In recognition for this operation, Rotheram was promoted commander...
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  • HMS Brunswick fighting Achille and Vengeur du Peuple simultaneously at the Battle of the Glorious 1 June 1794, by Nicholas Pocock....
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    his brother John. Brunswick had become entangled with the French Vengeur du Peuple and both ships were in danger of sinking when Ramillies arrived, raking...
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  • becoming entangled with the French ship Vengeur du Peuple and both ships taking terrible damage, the Vengeur sinking soon afterwards and Brunswick only...
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  • Vengeur du Peuple (right)...
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