Invasion of Corsica (1794)
The invasion of Corsica was a campaign fought in the spring and summer of 1794 by combined British military and Corsican irregular forces against a French garrison, early in the French Revolutionary Wars. The campaign centred on sieges of three principal towns in Northern Corsica; San Fiorenzo, Bastia and Calvi, which were in turn surrounded, besieged and bombarded until by August 1794 French forces had been driven from the island entirely.
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Invasion of Corsica (1794)
The invasion of Corsica was a campaign fought in the spring and summer of 1794 by combined British military and Corsican irregular forces against a French garrison, early in the French Revolutionary Wars. The campaign centred on sieges of three principal towns in Northern Corsica; San Fiorenzo, Bastia and Calvi, which were in turn surrounded, besieged and bombarded until by August 1794 French forces had been driven from the island entirely.
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1794-08-10
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Anglo-Corsican victory
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Loss of his Eye Before Calvi, National Maritime Museum
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Corsica
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Charles Stuart
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Comte Casabianca
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David Dundas
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Jean Michel
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Pasquale Paoli
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Samuel Hood
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Invasion of Corsica
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