Action of 9 July 1806
The action of 9 July 1806 was a minor engagement between a French privateer frigate and British forces off Southern Ceylon during the Napoleonic Wars. French privateers operating from the Indian Ocean islands of Île Bonaparte and Île de France were a serious threat to British trade across the Indian Ocean during the Wars, and the British deployed numerous methods of intercepting them, including disguising warships as merchant vessels to lure privateers into unequal engagements with more powerful warships. Cruising near the Little Basses Reef on the Southern coast of Ceylon, the 34-gun privateer Bellone was sighted by the 16-gun British brig , which began chasing the larger French vessel. At 15:15, a third ship was sighted to the south, which proved to be the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Pow
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Action of 9 July 1806
The action of 9 July 1806 was a minor engagement between a French privateer frigate and British forces off Southern Ceylon during the Napoleonic Wars. French privateers operating from the Indian Ocean islands of Île Bonaparte and Île de France were a serious threat to British trade across the Indian Ocean during the Wars, and the British deployed numerous methods of intercepting them, including disguising warships as merchant vessels to lure privateers into unequal engagements with more powerful warships. Cruising near the Little Basses Reef on the Southern coast of Ceylon, the 34-gun privateer Bellone was sighted by the 16-gun British brig , which began chasing the larger French vessel. At 15:15, a third ship was sighted to the south, which proved to be the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Pow
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The action of 9 July 1806 was ...... efficiency in British gunnery.
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2 killed, 11 wounded
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1806-07-09
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British victory
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PrivateerfrigateBellone
Ship of the lineHMS PowerfulandbrigHMS Rattlesnake
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Location of the capture of Bellone
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Captain Jacques Perroud
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Captain Robert Plampin
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1806-07-09
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the Napoleonic Wars
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Little Basses Reef, off the Southern coast of Ceylon
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British victory
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The action of 9 July 1806 was ...... 4-gun ship of the line HMS Pow
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Action of 9 July 1806
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Action of 9 July 1806
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