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The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [1] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises, mistaking them for the periscope of ...
The Northeast Coast campaign (also known as the Six Terrible Days) [3] (10 August – 6 October 1703) was the first major campaign by the French of Queen Anne's War in New England. Alexandre Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin [ 4 ] led 500 troops made up of French colonial forces and the Wabanaki Confederacy of Acadia (200 Mi'kmaq [ 5 ] and ...
The Northeast Coast campaign (1723) occurred during Father Rale's War from April 19, 1723 – January 28, 1724. In response to the previous year, in which New England attacked the Wabanaki Confederacy at Norridgewock and Penobscot, the Wabanaki Confederacy retaliated by attacking the coast of present-day Maine that was below the Kennebec River, the border of Acadia.
Background map : extract from File:France_map_Lambert-93_with_rivers_and_regions-blank.svg by Éric Gaba under licence GFDL or CC-BY-SA 3.0 Tracks : a map from Corbett, Julian Stafford (1907) England in the seven years' war, volume 2 , London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and co., pp. 407 Retrieved on 21 November 2009.
The hull was the wrong shape for rapid battle manoeuvres, and not designed to resist cannon fire. Ranger had been built as a fighting ship, and modified by Jones for maximum efficiency: for example, although there were ports for 20 guns, he found it safest to install only 18 six-pound guns.
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Special pages; Printable version ... 4 5 8 BivouasToPicoBlock. Map used as part of the Combat Studies Institute developed staff ride about the Battle of San Pasqual ...