What the records say
- When
- 31 Mar 1800
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 36.19° N, 14.62° E
- Description
- 1800 minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars
- Naval
- yes
Action of 31 March 1800
Naval battle of the War of the Second Coalition
The action of 31 March 1800 was a naval engagement of the War of the Second Coalition fought between a Royal Navy squadron and a French Navy ship of the line off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. By March 1800 Valletta, the Maltese capital, had been under siege for eighteen months and food supplies were severely depleted, a problem exacerbated by the interception and defeat of a French replenishment convoy in mid-Febru…
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