Macau Incident (1799)
The Macau Incident was an inconclusive encounter between a powerful squadron of French and Spanish warships and a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago (or Ladrones Archipelago) off Macau on 27 January 1799. The incident took place in the context of the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, the allied squadron attempting to disrupt a valuable British merchant convoy due to sail from Qing Dynasty China. This was the second such attempt in three years; at the Bali Strait Incident of 1797 a French frigate squadron had declined to engage six East Indiamen on their way to China. By early 1799 the French squadron had dispersed, with two remaining ships deployed to the Spanish Philippines. There the frigates had united with the Spanish Manila squadron and
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Macau Incident (1799)
The Macau Incident was an inconclusive encounter between a powerful squadron of French and Spanish warships and a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago (or Ladrones Archipelago) off Macau on 27 January 1799. The incident took place in the context of the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, the allied squadron attempting to disrupt a valuable British merchant convoy due to sail from Qing Dynasty China. This was the second such attempt in three years; at the Bali Strait Incident of 1797 a French frigate squadron had declined to engage six East Indiamen on their way to China. By early 1799 the French squadron had dispersed, with two remaining ships deployed to the Spanish Philippines. There the frigates had united with the Spanish Manila squadron and
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The Macau Incident was an inco ...... China convoy safely westwards.
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1799-01-27
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Inconclusive
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Map of the mouth of the Pearl River. The Wanshan Archipelago labelled "Ladrone In".
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France
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Spain
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Captain William Hargood
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Rear-Admiral Ignacio Maria de Álava
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Macau Incident
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1799-01-27
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the French Revolutionary Wars
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Inconclusive
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Two ships of the line, four frigates
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Two ships of the line, one frigate
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The Macau Incident was an inco ...... e Spanish Manila squadron and
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