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Robert Surcouf

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Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a French privateer who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and again from 1807 to 1808, capturing over 40 prizes, while amassing a large fortune as a ship-owner, from both privateering and commerce. [1]

73 relations: Action of 9 July 1806, Admiral Aplin (1802 EIC ship), Ambroise Louis Garneray, Arthur Bernède, Émilie (1793 ship), Balasore Roads, Battle of Île Ronde, Battle of Grand Port, Caroline (1804 ship), Cartier (1787 ship), Charles Cunat, Commerce raiding, Confiance (1797 ship), East Indiaman, East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars, Edward John Trelawny, Eliza Ann (1795 ship), France–United Kingdom relations, Frederick St John (British Army officer), French corsairs, French corvette Revenant, French cutter Renard (1812), French destroyer Surcouf (D621), French frigate Cybèle, French frigate Sémillante (1792), French frigate Sibylle (1792), French frigate Surcouf, French Navy, French patamar Entreprenant (1807), French ship Renard, French ship Surcouf, French submarine Surcouf, Georges Cabanier, History of the French Navy, HMS Alphea (1806), HMS Victor, Isle de France (Mauritius), Jacques Surcouf, Jean Dornal de Guy, Jean-Marie Dutertre, Jean-Michel Charlier, Job de Roincé, Joseph Potier, Kent (1799 ship), Kent (East Indiaman), Letter of marque, Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean, List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions, List of Breton people, List of pirate films, ..., List of pirates, List of privateers, List of sea captains, Mauritius campaign of 1809–11, Nicolas Surcouf, Nonsuch (1781 ship), October 7, Privateer, Queen (1785 ship), Redbeard (comics), Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve, Saint-Malo, Sémillante-class frigate, Sir William Burroughs (1803 ship), Surcouf, T 47-class destroyer, The Sea Pirate, Transport vessels for the British invasions of Île Bourbon and Île de France (1810), Triton (1787 EIC ship), Triton (East Indiaman), Victor Hubinon, Vincent Moulac, 1800. Expand index (23 more) »

Action of 9 July 1806

The Action of 9 July 1806 was a minor engagement between a French privateer frigate and British forces off Southern Ceylon during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Admiral Aplin (1802 EIC ship)

Admiral Aplin was an East Indiaman of two decks, sailing under charter to the British East India Company (EIC).

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Ambroise Louis Garneray

Ambroise Louis Garneray (19 February 1783 – 11 September 1857) was a French corsair, painter and writer.

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Arthur Bernède

Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright.

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Émilie (1793 ship)

Émilie a French corvette-built privateer based in Île de France (now Mauritius). She is mostly known as one of the ships captained by Robert Surcouf. In early 1795 she was renamed to Émilie, which might raise your eyebrow since she was then under command of young Robert Surcouf; she was armed with only 4 6-pounders cruising from August 1795; in January 1796, after she had captured Cartier, Surcouf transferred to his prize, leaving Émilie in command of Jean Croizet. (more details at Robert Surcouf#Cruise of Émilie and capture of Triton). She returned to Mauritius in March 1796 and was renamed Modeste again. In August 1796, armed with 20 guns, she cruised under Claude Deschiens, who died in battle on 10 September 1796; command passed to Jean-Marie Dutertre and she returned to Isle de France in June 1797. Dutertre went on another cruise from late 1797 or early 1798, and sailed until April 1798 (again with 20 guns). Eventually captured by the Royal Navy but the circumstances are murky: either in March 1797 near Visakhapatnam by the 32-gun HMS Fox, or in April 1798 by the 32-gun HMS Cleopatra.

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Balasore Roads

Balasore Roads is a roadstead (a sheltered anchorage), on the Indian coast near Balasore.

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Battle of Île Ronde

The Battle of Île Ronde was a minor naval engagement between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off Île de France, now named Mauritius, in the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Battle of Grand Port

The Battle of Grand Port was a naval battle between squadrons of frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy.

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Caroline (1804 ship)

Caroline was a French privateer commissioned in Saint-Malo in 1804.

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Cartier (1787 ship)

Cartier was a brig launched in 1787 for the Bengal Pilot Service as a pilot ship operating at Balasore Roads.

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Charles Cunat

Charles-Marie Cunat (Saint-Malo, 20 May 1789Levot, p.108 – Saint-Malo, 21 February 1862.Levot, p.109) was a French naval officer, privateer and naval historian.

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Commerce raiding

Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them.

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Confiance (1797 ship)

Confiance, launched in 1797, was a privateer corvette from Bordeaux, famous for being Robert Surcouf's ship during the capture of the British East India Company's East Indiaman ''Kent''.

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East Indiaman

East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India Companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.

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East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars

The East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars was a series of campaigns related to the major European conflict known as the French Revolutionary Wars, fought between 1793 and 1801 between the new French Republic and its allies and a shifting alliance of rival powers.

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Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

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Eliza Ann (1795 ship)

Eliza Ann (or Eliza and Ann) was launched at Calcutta in 1795.

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France–United Kingdom relations

France–United Kingdom relations are the relations between the governments of the French Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK).

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Frederick St John (British Army officer)

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French corsairs

Corsairs (corsaire) were privateers, authorized to conduct raids on shipping of a nation at war with France, on behalf of the French crown.

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French corvette Revenant

Revenant was a 20-gun privateer corvette, launched in 1807, and designed by Robert Surcouf for commerce raiding.

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French cutter Renard (1812)

The Renard was a cutter launched in 1812 and armed and owned by Robert Surcouf.

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French destroyer Surcouf (D621)

Surcouf was a of the French Navy.

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French frigate Cybèle

Cybèle was an ''Nymphe'' class 40-gun frigate of the French Navy.

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French frigate Sémillante (1792)

The Sémillante (French: "Shiny" or "Sparkling") was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

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French frigate Sibylle (1792)

Sibylle was a 38-gun of the French Navy.

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French frigate Surcouf

Surcouf (F711) is a of the French Navy.

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French Navy

The French Navy (Marine Nationale), informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces.

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French patamar Entreprenant (1807)

Entreprenant was the first of a sequence of three vessels of the French Navy in 1807-1810 under the same name and with the same captain.

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French ship Renard

Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Renard, after the Fox or the character Reynard.

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French ship Surcouf

Five ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of the 19th century privateer Robert Surcouf.

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French submarine Surcouf

Surcouf was the largest French submarine cruiser built.

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Georges Cabanier

Amiral Georges Cabanier (November 21, 1906 - October 26, 1976) was a French Naval Officer and Admiral, in addition to Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur.

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History of the French Navy

Although the History of the French Navy goes back to the Middle Ages, its history can be said to effectively begin with Richelieu under Louis XIII.

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HMS Alphea (1806)

HMS Alphea was built of Bermudan pencil cedar as a cutter and launched in 1804.

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HMS Victor

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Victor.

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Isle de France (Mauritius)

Isle de France (Île de France in modern French) was the name of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius and its dependent territories between 1715 and 1810, when the area was under the French East India Company and part of France's empire.

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Jacques Surcouf

Jacques M R Surcouf (1873-1934) was a French entomologist.

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Jean Dornal de Guy

Jean Dornal de GuyThe name is sometimes written "Dornaldeguy" (13 October 1771 in Urrugne – 10 May 1855 in Saint Jean de Luz) was a French naval officer.

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Jean-Marie Dutertre

Jean-Marie (Jean) Dutertre (1768 in Lorient – 1811Gallois, p. 412) was a French privateer.

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Jean-Michel Charlier

Jean-Michel Charlier (30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer.

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Job de Roincé

Job de Roincé (Born Joseph Boreau de Roincé, 18 April 1896, Segré, Maine-et-Loire - 30 December 1981), was a French journalist and writer, and also one of the founding figures of Breton nationalism.

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Joseph Potier

Joseph Potier (5 May 1768, Saint-Malo — 10 November 1830Cunat, p.410) was a French privateer and slave trader.

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Kent (1799 ship)

Kent, launched in 1799, was an East Indiaman of the British East India Company.

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Kent (East Indiaman)

At least seven ships with the name Kent served the Honourable East India Company as an East Indiaman between 1680 and 1825.

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Letter of marque

A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture enemy vessels.

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Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean

Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean was a commerce raiding operation launched by the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

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List of alumni of Jesuit educational institutions

Over the last 400 years, the Roman Catholic Jesuit order has established a worldwide network of schools and universities.

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List of Breton people

This is an incomplete list of some Breton people of note and of some notable individuals born in Brittany, alphabetically within categories.

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List of pirate films

This is a list of pirate films and series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries.

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List of pirates

This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities.

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List of privateers

A privateer was a private person or private warship authorized by a country's government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping.

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List of sea captains

This is a list of sea captains.

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Mauritius campaign of 1809–11

The Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 was a series of amphibious operations and naval actions fought to determine possession of the French Indian Ocean territories of Isle de France and Île Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Nicolas Surcouf

Nicolas Surcouf (Saint-Malo, —) was a French privateer.

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Nonsuch (1781 ship)

Nonsuch was launched at Calcutta in 1781 as the first large vessel built there.

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October 7

No description.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Queen (1785 ship)

Queen was launched in 1785 and served the British East India Company as an East Indiaman.

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Redbeard (comics)

Redbeard (French: Barbe-Rouge) is a series of Belgian comic books, originally published in French, created by writer Jean-Michel Charlier and artist Victor Hubinon in 1959.

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Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve

Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve (4 January 1671Cunat, p. 145 – c. 1720Cunat, p. 152) was a Breton privateer.

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Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Brittany on the Channel coast.

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Sémillante-class frigate

The Sémillante class was a type of 12-pounder 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Pierre-Joseph Pénétreau.

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Sir William Burroughs (1803 ship)

Sir William Burroughs was a merchant vessel launched in 1803 at Calcutta.

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Surcouf

Surcouf is a French surname.

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T 47-class destroyer

The T 47 class or Surcouf class were the first destroyers built for the French Navy after the Second World War.

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The Sea Pirate

The Sea Pirate (Surcouf, le tigre des sept mers, Surcouf, l'eroe dei sette mari, El tigre dels mars del Sud, also known as The Fighting Corsair) is a 1966 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Sergio Bergonzelli and Roy Rowland.

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Transport vessels for the British invasions of Île Bourbon and Île de France (1810)

For the invasions of Île Bourbon and Île de France (Mauritius) the British government hired a number of transport vessels.

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Triton (1787 EIC ship)

Triton was launched in 1787 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company (EIC).

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Triton (East Indiaman)

At least four ships that have borne the name Triton, named for Triton (in Greek mythology the messenger of the sea), have made voyages for the British East India Company (EIC).

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Victor Hubinon

Victor Hubinon (26 April 1924 – 8 January 1979) was a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series Buck Danny and Redbeard.

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Vincent Moulac

Vincent-Marie Moulac (Lorient, 22 March 1778 - Callao, 5 April 1836.) was a French naval officer and privateer.

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1800

As of March 1 (O.S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until 1899.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Surcouf

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