20 October

The Capture of the William refers to a small single ship action fought on 20 October 1720 between Calico Jack's pirate ship and a British sloop-of-war from Port Royal, Jamaica.

On 20 October 1798 the brig-sloop HMS Racoon captured the Vigilante.

On the morning of 20 October 1798, the French frigate Immortalité, under Captain Jean-François Legrand, was approaching Brest when he was spotted by Captain Thomas Byam Martin of HMS Fisgard. Fisgard, part of the inshore squadron of the Brest blockade, immediately offered battle.

The Action of 20 October 1793 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought off Cape Barfleur on the French coast of the English Channel.

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The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–32), in Navarino Bay (modern-day Pylos), on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea.

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