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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.
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.
The incident came about after the Admiralty sent orders to Plymouth in December 1792, instructing the Druid 32, Captain Joseph Ellison, and the sloop Childers 14, Commander Robert Barlow, together with a cutter, to monitor the state of the French fleet at Brest.
The Batteries at the Entrance of Brest Harbour firing upon H.M.Brig Childers' [2 January 1793] Line engraving, inscribed as title. These were the first anti-British French shots that helped draw Britain into the French Revolutionary War early in 1793, though it had been in progress in Europe since the previous year.
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.
In 1793 Childers was involved in what became known as the Childers Incident at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars. Childers was the first British warship to be involved in hostilities with the Revolutionary French regime.
This volume is the first of five covering the whole of the French Revolutionary, Napoleonic and 1812 Wars based on contemporary images, a series depicting the reality of warfare under sail in a depth never previously attained. …
This article looks at a number of French testimonies of massacres during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars committed by combatants, for the most part against civilians.
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.
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