Emerald and Minerve Capture Off Sardinia
An Admiralty dispatch reports the Emerald and Minerve capturing a French privateer, La Caroling, off the southeast of Sardinia. Captain Ge. Cockburn at sea near Palmyra Bay and Majorca details indicate a raid to cut off vessels while Jaunteys seize two brigs and five tartags from Barcelona laden with wheat and sheep.
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Palma-bay
Barcelona
Majorda
Ames Young
Seq
S. E. Eid
Sardinia
Geo. Cockburn
Earl St. Vincent
The British Fleet Captures Five French Vessels at Sea
In a July dispatch from the Admiral Keiths squadron, Captain Markham reports capturing five French ships, including the Bellona and Santa Theresa, near Jutland, with Emerald taking the Salamine brig and Alerte also seized. Allied accounts describe major actions around the Tidone and Trebia rivers, detailing a hard-fought battle with substantial losses and multiple column advances by Austro-Russian forces. The report notes heavy fighting, casualties, prisoners, and strategic maneuvers as Piedmont and Lombardy battles unfold near Turin, Modena, and Tortona.
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Centaur
Fung
Chace
Bellona
Santa Tere
Emerald
Alerte
la Courageux
Baille
L'Alceste
Barree
la Salamine
Landry
D' Alerte
Dumay
Letter from Earl St Vincent on captured Spanish xebec and armed brig
A letter from Earl St Vincent cites Capt. Gage of the Terpsichore on the Argo near Gibraltar dated July 6 1799 and June 23 1799. It reports chasing and capturing a Spanish xebec and an armed brig named St Antonio, which lost its main topmast, and notes the brig’s 12 pounders and 6 pounders with 70 men. The vessels had sailed from Malaga in company with the xebec.
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Earl St. Vingent
Gage
Terpsichore
Argo
Gibraltar Bay
St. Antonio
Chace
Malaga
Earl St. Vincent
Admiralty Report of Vessels Taken by Parker Squadron
A July 27 2799 Admiralty letter from Sir Hyde Parker describes ships captured or destroyed by his squadron at Port Royal Harbour Jamaica in June 2709. Vessels listed include L Esperance La June L A Mable Eustatie and other French Spanish craft plus four merchant vessels. multiple boats and prizes are noted with crews and gun counts.
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Admiralty
Hyde Parker
Port Royal Harbour
Jamaica
L'Eclair
Magicienne
Acasta
Pelican
Parker
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Markham
Charlotte
Captain Markham
Fune
Binge Ray
Lhirondelle
Jutland
Robnout
Harshall
Lord V. Duncan
Ge. J. Wood
Bond
Netley
Dundas
Bulmarth-heath
Vienna
Tidone
Trebia
Nurai
Turin
Macdonald
Florence
Victor
Lucca
Lower
Count Suwarrow
Martha Lieut
Kaim
Batta‘iongy
Savoy
Riviera
Piedmonts
Alessandria
Modena
Hohenzollern
Klenau
Count Bellegarde
Tortona
Lieut
Ott
St. Giovanni
Gorgow
Baldegew
Pangrazion
Prince Gorzakov
Semernikow
Moltfanow
Froelich
Hussars
Archduke Joseph
Karagzay
Loewenehr
Lobkowitz
Frebia
Pancrazion
Karaczay
Dembrowsky
de Rosenberg
Sweykowsky
Lieut. Foerster
Leevenehr
Lawarrow
Tavalry
Tett
Melas
la Poipe
Genoa
Bobbio
Moreau
Prince Pangrazion
Sweykowtky
Pungrazion
Bamgang
Dikat
Foerster
Lord Duncan
Wood
Houndiana O Texel
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