The Bali Strait Incident was an encounter between a squadron of six French Navy frigates and six British East India Company ( EIC ) East Indiamen in the Bali Strait on 28 January 1797 .

However six East Indiamen were sailing Self_motion to transit the Bali Strait on their way to China .

On 28 January , at the entrance to the Strait , Sercey 's squadron and the East Indiamen met Come_together .

He would attempt to lead Causation Sercey into believing that the convoy was formed Coming_to_be not from lightly armed East Indiamen , but from the powerful ships of the line that the Indiamen resembled Change_sentiment .

He would attempt to lead Causation Sercey into believing that the convoy was formed Coming_to_be not from lightly armed East Indiamen , but from the powerful ships of the line that the Indiamen resembled Change_sentiment .

The East Indiamen reached Arriving Whampoa Anchorage having lost Earnings_and_losses only one ship , which wrecked Destroying in the Flores Sea in a storm the day after the encounter .

A French frigate force that had been raiding Attack British commerce off West Africa approached Self_motion and attempted to attack Attack a convoy of valuable East Indiamen , large and heavily armed merchant vessels sailing Motion from Britain to British India and China , two ships sailing Motion for Botany Bay , and a whaler sailing Motion for the South Seas ' whale fishery .

Due to their large size , the East Indiamen could be mistaken Coming_to_believe for ships of the line at a distance , and the French commander Commodore Jean-François Landolphe was un-nerved when the convoy formed Becoming a line of battle Hostile_encounter .

To preserve Preserving the impression of warships he also ordered Request four of his most powerful East Indiamen to join Participation the chase Self_motion .

The rest of the French squadron continued to flee Escaping separately during the night , each pursued Self_motion by two East Indiamen .

The Action of 3 July 1810 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter of the Napoleonic Wars Hostile_encounter , in which a French frigate squadron under Guy-Victor Duperré attacked Attack and defeated Conquering a convoy of Honourable East India Company East Indiamen near the Comoros Islands .

On 18 November 1809 , three ships Sending of Hamelin 's squadron encountered Hostile_encounter a convoy of India-bound East Indiamen , mainly carrying Bringing recruits for the Indian Army , then administered Control by the Honourable East India Company ( HEIC ) .

Despite spirited resistance from the largest British merchant ship , `` Windham '' , the failure of the other Indiamen to support Supporting their leader and the size and power of the French ships forced Control the British to withdraw Escaping : all the HEIC ships were subsequently captured Conquering by the larger , faster French warships .

Only two of the captured Conquering Indiamen were successfully brought Causation to Ile de France : the same storm Catastrophe that nearly destroyed Destroying `` Vénus '' scattered Dispersal the squadron and its prizes , allowing Preventing_or_letting a patrolling Patrolling British frigate to recapture Conquering `` Windham '' just a few miles from the French island .

This was the second such attempt in three years ; at the Bali Strait Incident of 1797 a French frigate squadron had declined Agree_or_refuse_to_act to engage six East Indiamen on their way to China .