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All events included in this article represent fleet actions that involved major naval commands larger than 3–4 ships of the line, and usually commanded by a flag officer. The period commenced with the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens on the 16 May 1803. Three days later Cornwallis began the Blockade of Brest. [1]
This is a list of French ships of the line of the period 1621–1870 (plus some from the period before 1621). Battlefleet units in the French Navy (Marine Royale before the French Revolution established a republic) were categorised as vaisseaux (literally "vessels") as distinguished from lesser warships such as frigates (frégates).
This list of naval battles is a chronological list ... Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) ... first engagement between capital ships of the war. 9 April Battle of Horten ...
List of battles of the War of the Third Coalition (1803/1805–1805/1806) List of battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition (9 October 1806 – 9 July 1807) List of battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition (10 April – 14 October 1809) List of battles of the War of the Sixth Coalition (3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814)
The navy had 83 ships of the line in 1792, but only 46 ten years later, while the numbers of frigates had gone from 74 to 37. To build new ships large military seaports and shipyards were set up at Cherbourg and Antwerp – the latter especially worried British Prime Minister William Pitt, who felt it was a 'pistol aimed at the head of England ...
This category contains historical naval battles fought as part of the Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars .
During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain defeated French and allied fleets decisively all over the world including in the Caribbean at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the Bay of Aboukir off the Egyptian coast at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, near Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and in the second Battle of Copenhagen (1807). The UK ...
Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), semi-autobiographical novel by Captain Frederick Marryat, who served as a Royal Navy officer (1806–1830) including during Napoleonic Wars, and who wrote many novels, and who was a pioneer of the Napoleonic wars sea story about the experiences of British naval officers. Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.