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Naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars involving France

  • Battle of Shubra KhitNapoleon Bonaparte landed his expeditionary forces near Alexandria on the 1st of July 1798. The landing was not peaceful.
  • Battle of the NileIn the spring of 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte assembled more than 35,000 soldiers in Mediterranean France and Italy. He developed a powerful fleet at Toulon to…
  • French expedition to SardiniaThe year 1793 marked the first offensive by the new French Republic in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition.
  • Siege of Toulon (1793)The insurrection of the 31st of May to the 2nd of June 1793 triggered a Federalist revolt that quickly engulfed Toulon. Local Federalists evicted the Jacobin…