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  2. Childers Incident - Wikipedia

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    Goulet de Brest. The Childers Incident of 2 January 1793 marked the opening shots between British and French forces during the French Revolutionary Wars, the first phase of a 23-year-long war between the two countries.

  3. Robert Barlow (Royal Navy officer) - Wikipedia

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    On 2 January 1793, Barlow took Childers into Brest to reconnoitre the port due to the growing hostility between Britain and the First French Republic.Tensions had been mounting for months since the French Revolution and the opening of the French Revolutionary Wars the previous year between France, Prussia, Austria and Sardinia but Britain and France were not yet at war when Barlow entered Brest.

  4. Category:Conflicts in 1793 - Wikipedia

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    Burmese–Siamese War (1792–1794) ... First Battle of Châtillon; Second Battle of Châtillon; Childers Incident; ... Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary ...

  5. French Revolutionary Wars - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolutionary Wars (French: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain , Austria , Prussia , Russia , and several other countries.

  6. HMS Childers (1778) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Childers was a brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy, initially armed with 10 carriage guns which were later increased to 14 guns.The first brig-sloop to be built for the Navy, she was ordered from a commercial builder during the early years of the American War of Independence, and went on to support operations in the English Channel and the Caribbean.

  7. Category:1793 in France - Wikipedia

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    1793 events of the French Revolution (1 C, ... Childers Incident; ... Siege of Condé (1793) French Constitution of 1793; Battle of Coron (1793) Battle of Courtrai ...

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Napoleonic era task force

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    This task force covers the events of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, corresponding to the period from c. 1792 to c. 1815.. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Napoleonic-task-force=yes or Napoleonic=y to the {{}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).

  9. List of wars involving France - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic. For wars involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792), see List of wars involving the Kingdom of France. For pre-987 wars, see List of wars involving ...