by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 18, 2019 | 1793, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Capture of the General Dumourier and St. Jago – 14 April 1793 On 5 April Rear-Admiral John Gell departed St. Helens with six sail of the line and a frigate in escort of an East India convoy of ten ships which he had orders to see to a safe latitude,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 3, 2019 | 1793, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
Admiral Gardner’s Leeward Islands Campaign – March to October 1793 ? On 26 March, twenty days after hoisting his flag at Spithead, Rear-Admiral Alan Gardner, the newly appointed commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 25, 2019 | 1793, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
The Admiralty responds to Revolutionary France’s Declaration of War – February 1793 Throughout the month of January 1793, as it became apparent that the long-expected war with the revolutionary National Convention of France was imminent, His...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 15, 2019 | 1793, The French Revolutionary War 1793-1802
?Although the War of the First Coalition between Republican France and the Austro / Prussian alliance had been raging throughout Europe since the previous April, it was not until the second day of 1793 that the first shots of the conflict involving Britain were...
