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French frigate Égyptienne (1799) French frigate. Égyptienne. (1799) Égyptienne was a French frigate launched at Toulon in 1799. Her first service was in Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1801, in which the British captured her at Alexandria. She famously carried the Rosetta Stone to Woolwich, and then the Admiralty commissioned her into the ...
In remembrance of the November pogroms against German Jews in 1938, November 9 is a day of remembrance in Germany for the victims of Nazism — in addition to the official national Holocaust memorial day on January 27 and the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (January 1945). January 27 is also the international ...
18,000 killed, wounded or captured. The Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland (or Anglo-Russian expedition to Holland, or Helder Expedition) was a military campaign from 27 August to 19 November 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition, in which an expeditionary force of British and Russian troops invaded the North Holland peninsula in the ...
The Battle of Castricum (October 6, 1799) saw a Franco-Dutch force defeat an Anglo-Russian force near Castricum, Netherlands.The battle was fought during the War of the Second Coalition against Revolutionary France between French and Dutch forces under the command of General Guillaume Brune and Herman Willem Daendels and British and Russian forces under the command of the Duke of York, Sir ...
By 1799, the French Revolutionary Wars had resumed after a period of relative peace in 1798. The Second Coalition had organized against France, with Great Britain allying with Russia, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, and several of the German and Italian states. While Napoleon 's army was still embroiled in Egypt, the allies prepared campaigns in ...
Première étape, le 18 Brumaire an VIII / 9 novembre 1799 : les organisateurs du coup d’État organisent le déplacement des assemblées représentatives de Paris à Saint-Cloud, à quelques km à l’ouest de Paris : on explique aux députés qu’ils doivent être protégés d’un attentat qui a été découvert.
The Moskva was launched on 22 May 1799 at Arkhangelsk. Together with its sister-ship Saint-Peter (Sviatoi Piotr, Russian: Святой Пётр, launched on 22 July 1799), the Moskva became part of the Baltic Fleet. Both of these ships were nearly identical and shared the same career during service. Operations in the North Sea and Baltic Sea
