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| x Battle of the Nile |
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Aug 1, 1798 | Aug 2, 1798 | Abu Qir Bay |
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, or in French as the Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798. The...
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| x Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
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1798 | Ireland |
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Irish: Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against British rule in the Kingdom of Ireland. The...
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| x Battle of Cape St. Vincent |
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Feb 14, 1797 | Cape St. Vincent |
In the Battle of Cape St Vincent (14 February 1797) a British fleet under John Jervis defeated a larger Spanish fleet under José de Córdoba near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
The Spanish declaration of war on Britain and Portugal in October 1796 made...
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| x Treaty of Amiens |
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Mar 25, 1802 |
The Treaty of Amiens temporarily ended the hostilities between France and the United Kingdom during the French Revolutionary Wars. It was signed in the city of Amiens on 25 March 1802 (Germinal 4, year X in the French Revolutionary Calendar) by...
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| x Napoleonic Wars |
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1803 | 1815 | Europe |
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts declared against Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789,...
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| x War of 1812 |
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Jun 18, 1812 | Mar 23, 1815 | Pacific Ocean |
The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire (particularly Great Britain and British North America), lasted from 1812 to 1815. It was fought chiefly on the Atlantic Ocean and on the land, coasts and waterways of North...
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| x Battle of Algeciras Bay |
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Jul 8, 1801 | Jul 12, 1801 | Gibraltar |
The Battle of Algeciras Bay refers to two separate battles in July 1801 between an allied French-Spanish fleet and the British near Gibraltar. In the first battle, the French drove off an attack by the larger British fleet and captured one ship of...
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| x Chesapeake-Leopard Affair |
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Jun 22, 1807 | Jun 22, 1807 | Norfolk |
In the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, also referred to as the Chesapeake Affair, which occurred on June 22, 1807, the British fourth-rate warship Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate Chesapeake.
The Chesapeake lay off the coast of Norfolk,...
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| x Java vs Constitution | Dec 29, 1812 |
The sinking of HMS Java was a naval action fought in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil on December 29, 1812 between the USS ''Constitution'' and the British frigate HMS ''Java''. The Java was defeated, suffering damage so severe that she was...
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| x Sinking of HMS Peacock | Feb 24, 1813 | Atlantic Ocean |
The sinking of HMS Peacock was a naval action fought off the mouth of the Demerara River, Guiana on 24 February, 1813, between the sloop of war USS Hornet and the Cruizer class brig sloop Peacock. After an exchange of broadsides, the British vessel...
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| x Battle of Boston Harbor |
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Jun 1, 1813 | Jun 1, 1813 | Atlantic Ocean |
The Capture of USS Chesapeake was fought on 1 June 1813, between HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake, as part of the War of 1812. Shannon won the battle, and Chesapeake was captured. During this many men were killed on both sides.
At Boston, Captain...
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| x Storming of the Bastille |
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Jul 14, 1789 | Jul 14, 1789 | Paris |
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven prisoners at the time of its...
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| x Battle of Bunker Hill |
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Jun 17, 1775 | Jun 17, 1775 | Charlestown |
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the...
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| x Battle of Trafalgar |
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Oct 21, 1805 | Cape Trafalgar |
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803...
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| x Rum Rebellion |
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Jan 26, 1808 | Sydney |
The Rum Rebellion, also known as the Rum Puncheon Rebellion, of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history. The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under...
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| x Battle of Waterloo |
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Jun 18, 1815 | Jun 18, 1815 | Waterloo |
In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Belgium) forces of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and Michel Ney were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke...
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| x Glorious First of June |
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Jun 1, 1794 | Jun 1, 1794 | Atlantic Ocean |
The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the...
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| x French Revolution |
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1789 | 1799 |
The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy...
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| x Peninsular War |
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May 2, 1808 | Apr 17, 1814 | Iberian Peninsula |
The Peninsular War was a contest between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French armies invaded Portugal in 1807 and Spain in...
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| x nlyer | Jan 1, 1900 10:30pm | Jan 1, 1900 12:30pm | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | ||
