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Napoleonic Wars: British forces captured the French frigate Niémen in the Bay of Biscay.
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Napoleonic Wars
1803–1815 series of wars led by Napoleon
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the First Consul followed by the First French Empire (1804–1815) under the Emperor of the French, Napoleon…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Action of 6 April 1809
Naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars
The action of 6 April 1809 was a small naval battle fought between the French frigate Niémen and several British frigates, principally HMS Amethyst, as part of the blockade of Brest, France, during the Napoleonic Wars. During the Wars, a central part of British strategy was to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
HMS Niemen (1809)
Frigate of the Royal Navy
HMS Niemen was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate. She began her career as the Niémen, a 44-gun French Navy Armide-class frigate, designed by Pierre Rolland. She was only in French service for a few months when in 1809 she encountered some British frigates. The British…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bay of Biscay
Gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea
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