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    26 June

    On the 26th of June 1656, the Third Battle of the Dardanelles between the Venetians and the Ottomans started.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...he-Dardanelles


    On the morning of 26 June 1799, the 24-gun HMS Champion engaged the 16-gun privateer Anacréon, out of Dunkirk.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-26-June

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    27 June

    1813 - USS President anchors in Bergen, Norway.

    Boats of HMS Loire (40), Cptn. Frederick Maitland, captured Venteux (10) at anchor under a shore battery in the Isle de Bas Roads.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1335-June-27th

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    28 June

    The ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp engaged the Cruizer class brig-sloop HMS Reindeer in one of the hardest-fought naval actions in the War of 1812.

    The Battle of Sullivan's Island or the Battle of Fort Sullivan was fought on June 28, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-28-June


    1794 - Joshua Humphreys appointed master builder to build Navy ships at an annual salary of $2,000.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1339-JUNE-28TH

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    29 June

    On the 29th of June 1694, French and Dutch ships fought in the Battle of Texel, a naval engagement of the Nine Years’ War.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...attle-of-Texel


    The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (June 29, 1776) was an important, early naval victory for the Continental Navy and the future "Father of the American Navy", Captain John Barry.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-29-June

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    30 June

    On the 30th of June 1815, the USS Peacock, a sloop-of-war, captured the HMS Nautilus, a 16-gun brig, in the final naval action of the War of 1812.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...he-War-of-1812

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-Day-30-June

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    1 July

    On the 1st of July 1644, Danish and Swedish fleets fought the Battle of Colberger Heide off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

    On 1 July 1801, Commodore Richard Dale’s squadron arrived at Gibraltar for the protection of American interests and to strike at the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...olberger-Heide


    During the early morning of 1 July 1782, five American privateers, who had left Boston under the command of Captain Noah Stoddard, began to raid Lunenburg.

    1797 - Naval Regulations passed by Congress.

    1800 - First convoy duty; USS Essex escorts convoy of merchant ships from East Indies to U.S.

    1801 - U.S. squadron under Commodore Dale enters Mediterranean to strike Barbary Pirates.

    1850 - Naval School at Annapolis renamed Naval Academy.

    1851 - Naval Academy adopts four year course of study.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...his-Day-1-July

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    2 July

    On the 2nd of July 1803, the HMS Minerve (40) ran aground, and was subsequently recaptured by the French.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...of-the-Minerve

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    3 July

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    4 July

    On this day 4 July - American Independence Day

    On 4 July 1777, Captain John Paul Jones hoisted the first Stars and Stripes flag on board a Continental warship, the frigate Ranger, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

    1801 - First Presidential Review of U.S. Marine Band and Marines at the White House.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...dependence-Day

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?493-July-4th

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    5 July

    On the 5th of July 1770, the Battle of Chesma began in and around Çeşme Bay, on the west coast of Turkey.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...ttle-of-Chesma


    1814 - Sloop-of-war Peacock captures British Stranger, Venus, Adiona and Fortitude.
    1815 - Commodore Stephen Decatur's squadron arrives at Tripoli to collect.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?494-July-5th

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    6 July

    On the 6th of July 1779, British and French fleets fought the Battle of Grenada, an engagement taking place in the West Indies as part of the American War of Independence.

    On 6 July 1747, John Paul Jones was born at Arbigland, Scotland.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...tle-of-Grenada

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    7 July

    On July 7, 1798 Congress rescinded treaties with France and is considered the beginning of the Quasi-War.

    The U.S. warship, Delaware, commanded by Capt. Stephen Decatur, Sr., captured a French privateer, La Croyable, off Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, on 7 July 1798.

    1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat lands at Monterey and claims California for U.S.

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...his-Day-7-July

    http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1359-July-7th

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    8 July

    On the 8th of July 1716, Venetian and Turkish fleets battled off the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea.

    On 8 July 1777, British Frigate HMS Rainbow and the Brig HMS Flora chased the Continental Frigates Boston and Hancock and her prize, British Frigate HMS Fox, off Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...sland-of-Corfu

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    9 July

    On the 9th of July 1790, Russian and Swedish fleets fought the Battle of Svensksund in the Gulf of Finland.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-of-Svensksund

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...his-Day-9-July

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    10 July

    On the 10th of July 1778, the HMS Lively was sailing to Ushant, an island off of northwest France, to join Admiral Keppel’s fleet. As the morning fog lifted, the British 20-gun post ship found itself in the proximity of a French fleet.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...vely-encounter


    On 10 July 1911, King George V fixed his signature to the approval for the Commonwealth Naval Forces to be renamed the Royal Australian Navy.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-10-July

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    11 July

    On 11 July 1798 the United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

    On the 11th of July 1803, the HMS Racoon captured the French ship Lodi.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-11-July

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-day-11-July

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    12 July

    The Second Battle of Algeciras (also known as the Battle of the Gut of Gibraltar) was a naval battle fought on the night of 12 July 1801 between a squadron of British Royal Navy ships of the line and a larger squadron of ships from the Spanish Navy and French Navy in the Gut of Gibraltar.

    On 12 July 1814 HMS Landrail was in the Channel on her way to Gibraltar with dispatches when she encountered the American privateer Syren.

    On 12 July 1814 the USS Syren, a 16-gun brig-sloop under the command of Lieutenant N.J. Nicholson, encountered the British ship HMS Medway a 74-gun third rate ship of the line.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-12-July

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...e-of-Algeciras

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    13 July

    On 13 July 1854, the Sloop USS Cyane bombarded San Juan del Norte (Greytown), Nicaragua, in retaliation for ill-treatment of US Citizens.

    On 13 July 1812, the Frigate Essex, under the command of Captain David Porter, captured the British Merchant Brig Lamprey in the Atlantic.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1372-13-July

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    14 July

    14th July 1789 - The French Revolution starts.

    On 14 July 1813, during the War of 1812, Lieutenant John M. Gamble became the first Marine to command a Ship in battle.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-day-July-14th

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-14-July

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    15 July

    On the 16th of July 1798, the United States Congress created the rank of Rear Admiral to honor the leadership and service of David Glasgow Farragut.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...l-for-Farragut


    Napoleon surrendered aboard the 74-gun HMS Bellerophon under the command of Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-15-June


    On the 15th of July 1798, the HMS Lion (64) engaged four Spanish frigates.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-four-frigates
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    16 July

    On 16 July 1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-16-July

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    17 July

    On the 17th of July 1788, Swedish and Russian fleets fought the Battle of Hogland in the Gulf of Finland.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...tle-of-Hogland

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    18 July

    1775 - Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels.

    1779 - Commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.

    1792 - John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France.

    1813 - U.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...?506-July-18th

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    19 July

    On the 19th of July 1805, the French frigate Topaze (40), and corvettes Départment des Landes (22), Torche (18), and Faune (16) captured the HMS Blanche off the coast of Puerto Rico.

    On the 19th of July 1806, the newly named HMS Blanche, formally the Spanish ship Amfitrite, captured the Guerrière.

    On 19 July 1545 the English warship Mary Rose sank during the Battle of the Solent.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...f-two-Blanches

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-19-July

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    20 July

    On the 20th of July 1866, Austrian and Italian fleets fought the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...attle-of-Lissa

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    Lissa was a very interesting battle from a technical point of view. I think we last refought this one about 10 years back - Hallmark 1/2400 models and Iron and Fire rules.

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    21 July

    On the 21st of July 1781, French and British ships fought off the harbor of Spanish River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-of-Louisbourg


    On 21 July 1545 French troops landed on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-21-July

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    22 July

    On the 22nd of July 1805, the Battle of Cape Finisterre was fought between British and Franco-Spanish fleets off the coast of Galicia in northwest Spain.

    On 22 July 1802, during the First Barbary War, the Frigate Constellation, commanded by Captain Alexander Murray, defeated nine Corsair Gunboats off Tripoli.

    The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

    1905 - Body of John Paul Jones moved to Annapolis, MD for reburial.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ape-Finisterre

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-22-July

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    23 July

    On the 23rd of July 1810, British and Dano-Norwegian ships fought the Battle of Silda off the shore of, the modern-named county, Sogn og Fjordane.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...attle-of-Silda

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    24 July

    On the 24th of July 1797, Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm in the midst of the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...uz-de-Tenerife


    1813- Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...?513-July-24th
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    25 July

    On the 25th of July 1666 (Julian calendar), English and Dutch fleets began a two-day engagement known as the St. James’ Day Battle.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-Battle-Day-1

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    26 July

    On this day 26 July - the St. James' Day Battle - Day 2

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...y-Battle-Day-2


    The naval Battle of Öland took place on 26 July 1789 during the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790).

    1812 - Frigate Essex captures British brig Leander.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-26-July

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    27 July


    The Battle of Grengam on 27 July 1720 was the last major naval battle in the Great Northern War that took place in the Åland Islands, in the Ledsund strait between the island communities of Föglö and Lemland.

    The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, during the American War of Independence, fought between French and British fleets 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant, a French island at the mouth of the English Channel off the north-westernmost point of France.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-27-July


    On 27 July 1776, during the American Revolution, the Continental Brig Reprisal engaged the British Sloop-of-War Shark.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1412-27-July

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    28 July

    On 28 July 1854 USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, is commissioned.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-28-July


    On 28 July 1861, during the Civil War, the frigate St. Lawrence engaged the Confederate privateer Petrel.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?1421-28-July

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    29 July

    On 29 July 1588 during the Anglo-Spanish War the Battle of Gravelines occurred.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-29-July


    On the 29th of July 1782, the HMS Santa Margarita, a 36-gun fifth rate frigate under the command of Captain Elliot Salter, captured the 36-gun Amazone off Cape Henry, Virginia.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-day-29-July

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    30 July

    On this day, 30th July 1792, Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin was sung with such gusto by volunteer troops (fédérés) from Marseille entering Paris that it became known as La Marseillaise.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-quot-reasons


    The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish treasure fleet returning from the New World to Spain. In the evening of July 30, 1715 , seven days after departing from Havana, Cuba, all eleven ships of this fleet were lost in a hurricane near present day Vero Beach, Florida.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-30-July

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    31 July

    On the 31st of July 1793, the HMS Boston, under the command of Captain George Courtenay, and the French Embuscade, under the command of Captain Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart, fought a duel of the coast of New Jersey.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...h-frigate-duel


    On 31 July 1804 the 32-gun frigate HMS Tartar encountered the privateer Hirondelle.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...is-Day-31-July

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    1 August

    The Action of 1 August 1801 was a single-ship action of the First Barbary War fought between the American schooner USS Enterprise and the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli off the coast of modern-day Libya.

    The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay), 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.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-Day-1-August

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...?1428-1-August

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    2 August

    On the 2nd of August 1665, the CSS Shenandoah, under the command of Captain James Iredell Waddell, was en route to attack San Francisco when she learned of the end of the American Civil War from the Liverpool barque Barracouta. Waddell immediately took down the Confederate flag and transformed the Shenandoah from a man-of-war to a merchant vessel.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ican-Civil-War

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    3 August

    On the 3rd of August 1804, ships of the Mediterranean Squadron, under the command of Commodore Edward Preble, participated in an attack on Tripoli.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...cks-on-Tripoli


    At 14:30 on 3 August 1801, a squadron of patrolling frigates, HMS Phoenix under Captain Lawrence Halsted, HMS Pomone under Captain Edward Leveson-Gower and HMS Pearl under Captain Samuel James Ballard discovered a sail off the western shore of Elba and gave chase.

    1812 - Frigate Essex capture British brig Brothers.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-Day-3-August

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    4 August

    The Action of 4 August 1800 was a highly unusual naval engagement that took place off the Brazilian coast during the French Revolutionary Wars.

    On 4 August 1846, during the Mexican-American War, Marines and Sailors led by Commodore Robert Stockton from the Frigate Congress landed to capture Santa Barbara, California.

    On 4 August 1790, the Revenue Cutter Service was established by Congress, authorizing the construction of ten vessels to enforce federal tariff and trade laws and to prevent smuggling.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...for-the-French

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    5 August

    The Capture of HMS Dominica was a notable single-ship action that occurred on 5 August 1813 off the Bermudas during the War of 1812.

    The naval Battle of the Dogger Bank took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, part of the American War of Independence, in the North Sea.

    The Battle of Samos was a naval battle fought on August 5/17, 1824 off the Greek island of Samos during the Greek War of Independence.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-Day-5-August

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    6 August

    6 August 1805, Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois in the 74-gun Marengo, accompanied by the 40-gun Belle Poule, discovered a convoy of eleven large ships sailing eastwards along the trade route from the Cape to Madras.

    Fred T Jane was born on this day in 1865.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-Day-6-August

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    7 August

    On 7 August 1798 the brig-sloop HMS Espoir engaged the Genoese pirate, the 26-gun Liguria, some three leagues off Cape Windmill.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...s-Day-7-August


    On 7 August 1782, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart, was established by then General George Washington.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...436-August-7th

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    8 August

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    9 August

    The Action of 9 August 1780 was a naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War in which the main Spanish fleet led by Admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova, together with a squadron of French ships, captured a heavy British convoy of sixty-three vessels causing a severe blow to the commerce of Great Britain.

    1815 - Captain Stephen Decatur concludes treaty for the United States with Tripoli.

    1842 - Signing of Webster-Ashburton Treaty under which United States and Great Britain agreed to cooperate in suppressing the slave trade.

    1865 - Return of Naval Academy to Annapolis after four years at Newport, R.I.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...ary-War-battle

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    10 August

    The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont.

    On 10 August 1628, Captain Söfring Hansson ordered the Swedish warship Vasa to set sail on its maiden voyage to the naval station at Älvsnabben.

    The 36-gun frigate HMS Flora encountered the French frigate La Nymphe, pierced for 40 guns, but mounting only 32.

    On 10 August 1805 the 36-gun frigate HMS Phoenix, under the command of Captain Thomas Baker, came across the 40-gun French frigate Didon off Cape Finisterre.

    On 10 August 1809, the 18-gun brig HMS Allart, Commander James Tillard, chased the Dano-Norwegian warships Lougen and Seagull into Fredriksvern, only to find herself the quarry of 15 Danish gunboats, arrayed in three divisions.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-10-August


    On 10 August 1812, during the War of 1812, the Frigate Constitution captured and burned the Brig Lady Warren off Cape Race.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...43-August-10th

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    11 August

    The Battle of Cape Passaro (or Passero) was the defeat of a Spanish fleet under Admirals Antonio de Gaztañeta and Fernando Chacón by a British fleet under Admiral George Byng, near Cape Passero, Sicily, on 11 August 1718, four months before the War of the Quadruple Alliance was formally declared.

    1812 - USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Lady Warren.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...f-Cape-Passaro


    On 11 August 1808 the French 16-gun brig Sylphe ,under the command of capitaine de frégate M. Louis Marie Clément, encountered the 18-gun HMS Comet.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-11-August

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    12 August

    On 12 August 1782, the 28-gun frigate HMS Coventry, under the command of Captain Andrew Mitchell. encountered the 32-gun French frigate Bellone off Friars Hood, Ceylon.

    1812 - USS Constitution captures and destroys brig Adeona.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...-Day-12-August

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...48-August-12th

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    13 August

    On the 13th of August 1812, the USS Essex, under the command of Captain David Porter, captured the HMS Alert.

    On the 13th of August 1761, the HMS Bellona (74), accompanied by the HMS Brilliant (36), pursued and engaged the French Courageux (74) and two frigates.

    http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...of-engagements

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