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Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate squadron defeated a much larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.
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Napoleonic Wars
1803–1815 series of wars led by Napoleon
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Type of warship
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Battle of Lissa (1811)
1811 naval battle in the Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
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Body of water between the Italian and Balkan Peninsulas
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