The Action of 9 September 1796 was an inconclusive minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off northeastern Sumatra , near Banda Aceh , during the French Revolutionary Wars Hostile_encounter .

The Angevin fleet came out arranged Arranging in five squadrons , each commanded Control by a count ( hence the name of the battle Hostile_encounter ) .

the belligerents Hostile_encounter consisted Cause_to_be_included of two squadrons under the command Control of admiral don andres reggio of the spanish navy and admiral sir charles henry knowles of the royal navy , respectively .

In the autumn of 1810 , a British squadron assigned Request to patrol Patrolling the Baie de la Seine was effectively isolating two French squadrons in the ports of Le Havre and Cherbourg .

On 12 November , the squadron in Le Havre , consisting Cause_to_be_included of frigates `` Elisa '' and `` Amazone '' attempted to reach Arriving Cherbourg at night in order to united Collaboration the squadrons .

A failed attempt Hold by a French fleet to sail Self_motion had been defeated Conquering at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Basque Roads in 1809 , and the main operations Military_operation still carried out Military_operation by the Navy were undertaken Action by privateers and frigate squadrons operating Being_in_operation commerce raiders operating Being_in_operation from smaller ports , such as those on the English Channel .

In November 1810 squadrons were based Presence at Cherbourg , with two ships of the line and the newly built Building frigate `` Iphigénie '' , and Le Havre , with the frigates `` Elisa '' and `` Amazone '' , commanded Control by Captains Louis-Henri Fraycinet-Saulce and Bernard-Louis Rosseau respectively .

To blockade Besieging these squadrons , the Royal Navy 's Channel Fleet had assigned Request the ships of the line HMS `` Donegal '' under Captain Pulteney Malcolm and HMS `` Revenge '' under Captain Charles Paget to patrol Patrolling the entrance to Cherbourg , while frigates HMS `` Diana '' under Captain Charles Grant and HMS `` Niobe '' under Captain John Wentworth Loring kept watch Scrutiny on Le Havre .

Despite the threat that their ships faced Confronting_problem , communication Communication and the transfer of supplies between France and her colonies was vital to the French war Hostile_encounter effort , and the French Navy made Action constant attempts to evade the patrolling Patrolling British squadrons .

As the squadrons rebuilt Building , plans for the return mission were modified Change based on the lessons learned .

The operation was a failure , there were no Merlin engined P-51 Mustangs available for USAAF fighter squadrons to provide Supply long-range escort until the winter of 1943–44 ) , while the P-47 Thunderbolt was inadequate .

An escort of 24 squadrons of Spitfires equipped with drop tanks was provided Supply on the first and last leg of the mission .

the force comprised Cause_to_be_included 151 wing royal air force ( raf ) , with two squadrons of hawker hurricane fighters .

Madrid sued Request for peace after two Spanish squadrons were sunk Motion in Santiago de Cuba and Manila Bay and a third , more modern , fleet was recalled Request home to protect Defending the Spanish coasts .

Tiberias was captured Conquering by two squadrons of light horse , one from the 3rd Light Horse Brigade supported Supporting by armoured cars , and one from the 4th Light Horse Brigade after fighting Hostile_encounter the Battle of Samakh .

The two squadrons converged Come_together on the town from the north–west and south respectively and took Conquering 100 prisoners .

Strength Cause_change_of_strength of numbers , coordinated fire support from artillery and armoured squadrons , cleared most of the coastal defences within two hours of landing .

The operation Military_operation was launched Process_start on 29 July 2008 by elements of at least three Iraqi Army divisions , with four U.S. armored cavalry squadrons from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment in support .

The engagement Hostile_encounter was one of several between rival frigate squadrons contesting Competition control Control of the French island base of Île de France , from which French frigates had raided Attack British trade routes during the war Hostile_encounter .

The Atlantic campaign Military_operation of 1806 was a complicated series of manoeuvrees and counter-manoeuveres conducted Action by squadrons of the French Navy and the British Royal Navy across the Atlantic Ocean during the spring and summer of 1806 , as part of the Napoleonic Wars .

Believing Coming_to_believe that the French Navy would not be capable of organised resistance at sea during the winter , the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Barham withdrew Escaping the British blockade squadrons to harbour .

Taking Bringing advantage of the reduction in the British forces Military_operation off the port , Napoleon ordered Request two heavy squadrons to sea , under instructions Education_teaching to raid Attack British trade routes while avoiding Preventing_or_letting contact with equivalent Royal Navy forces Military_operation .

Departing Departing from Brest on 13 December 1805 , it was 12 days before the Admiralty in London were aware of the French movements , by which time the French squadrons were deep in the Atlantic , one under Vice-Admiral Corentin-Urbain Leissègues intending to cruise Self_motion in the Caribbean and the other , under Contre-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez , sailing Self_motion for the South Atlantic .

Two British squadrons were hastily mustered and dispatched Arranging in pursuit , one under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Strachan and the other under Rear-Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren .

These squadrons were joined Participation by a third under Rear-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth , who had deserted Escaping his station off Cadiz when he learned Education_teaching news of a French squadron to his south and subsequently crossed Motion_directional the Atlantic in pursuit of Willaumez .

Other squadrons already at sea became Becoming embroiled in the campaign : a smaller squadron that had been raiding Attack the African coast under Commodore Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite since August 1805 provided Supply a diversion to the major campaign but failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to draw Removing off significant British forces Military_operation , while the remnants of a French squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois that had been operating Being_in_operation in the Indian Ocean since 1803 was intercepted Preventing_or_letting and defeated Conquering by Warren in March , after a chance encounter on its journey back to France .

The Channel Fleet , commanded Control by Lord Howe , knew Know of the convoy Patrolling 's passage , and dispatched Sending squadrons to protect Defending British commerce while pursuing Aiming Villaret himself with the main body of the Royal Navy 's Channel Fleet .

The Action of 29 November 1811 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter between two frigate squadrons in the Adriatic Sea during the Adriatic campaign Military_operation of the Napoleonic Wars Hostile_encounter .

By dawn on 25 September , when a regiment and two squadrons of the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade attacked Attack Samakh , the rearguard was strongly entrenched Hindering .

On 24 January an action against a larger French squadron was fought Hostile_encounter in the Strait itself , but ended Process_end inconclusively and the squadrons divided , the British receiving Receiving the Dutch frigate `` Amazone '' as reinforcements .

Żółkiewski attacked Attack `` on the march '' with two squadrons of Polish hussars .

The voyage of the `` Glorioso '' involved Cause_to_be_included four naval engagements fought in 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession between the Spanish 70-gun ship of the line `` Glorioso '' and several British squadrons of ships of the line and frigates which tried to capture it .