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Showing posts with label French Antilles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Antilles. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 May 2019

French naval movements according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 24 September 1823

A telegram reported that the 74-gun ship of the line le Jean Bart captain Touflet arrived 17 September at Brest coming from the Antilles with a large convoy of merchant ships.The corvette la Diana, goelettes l’Iris and la Créole and the fluyt l’Infatigable under supreme command of captain Clemondet arrived 15 September at Lorient coming from Senegal where they left 19 July escorting 7 merchant ships, 2 coming from the Indian waters the other from Senegal.

Monday, 6 May 2019

French naval movements according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 21 February 1823

Paris, 16 February. According to a letter from Brest dated 6 February was one ship sent to the Antilles to order the squadron there that none merchant ships were to depart for Europe without a proper escort. A second warship was sent apparently to the same destination.