Letters written in France, to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794, and the month of May 1795 — John Shaqi
Letters written in France, to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794, and the month of May 1795Tench, Watkin
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Letters written in France, to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794, and the month of May 1795
Tench, Watkin
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Personal narratives, British; Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833 -- Correspondence
Guns.
La Montagne, 120
Le Majestueux 110
Le Terrible, 110
Le Revolutionnaire, 110
Le Neuf Thermidor[E], 84
L’Indomptable, 84
Le Tigre, 74
Le Montagnard, 74
Le Tourville, 74
Le Pelletier, 74
L’Acquilon, 74
Le Temeraire, 74
Le Zelè, 74
L’Audacieux, 74
Le Marat, 74
Le Tirannicide, 74
Le Jemappe, 74
Le Jean Bart, 74
La Convention, 74
La Revolution, 74
Le Scipion, 74
Le Nestor, 74
Le Mutius Scævola, 74
Les Droits de l’Homme, 74
Le 31 de Mai, 74
Le Neptune, 74
L’Eole, 74
L’Entreprenant, 74
Le Trajan, 74
Le Patriote, 74
Le Gasparin, 74
Le Superbe, 74
Le Redoutable, 74
Le Fougueux, 74
And the Alexander, of 74 guns, with at least a dozen
frigates, and several corvettes.
Le Republicain, of 110 guns, was intended to constitute a part of the
fleet; but on the night of the 24th of December she broke from her
anchors, was driven on a rock, and bulged, in a manner which does very
little credit to French seamanship. Here she lay until the 9th of
January, when her remains were burned, her main-mast and mizen-mast
being then standing, and her main-top-sail yard across.
When the fleet sailed, the wind was nearly at E. and it continued to
blow here between the points of N. E. and E. S. E. until the evening of
Sunday the 25th of January, when it shifted to South, and next day blew
fresh at S. W. On Thursday the 29th of January it returned to S. E. and
continued in the Eastern quarter until the evening of the 31st, when it
backed to S. W.
On the 12th of January Le Redoutable singly came back into port; on the
28th seven sail more of two-deckers returned, having parted three days
before in a fog from the body of the fleet, which, to the number of
twenty sail, arrived on the second and third of this month, and two
others have got into l’Orient: _no less than the following five having
either foundered, or been purposely run on shore, to prevent their
sinking_.
Guns.
Le Scipion, 74
Le Superbe, 74
Le Neuf Thermidor, 84
Le Temeraire, 74
Le Neptune, 74
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