Battle of Camperdown

When

11 Oct 1797

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

52.75° N, 4.20° E

Description

1797 major naval action of the French Revolutionary Wars

Naval

yes

1797 War of the First Coalition battle

The Battle of Camperdown was fought on 11 October 1797 between the Royal Navy's North Sea Fleet under Admiral of the Blue Adam Duncan and a Batavian Navy fleet led by Vice-admiral Jan Willem de Winter. Duncan's fleet won a complete victory over de Winter's in what was the most significant engagement between British and Batavian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars, capturing eleven ships without losing any of…

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Camperdown: the British Royal Navy defeats the fleet of the Batavian Republic off the coast of Holland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Ersten Koalitionskrieg kommt es vor der niederländischen Küste zur Seeschlacht bei Camperduin”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire navale britannique à la bataille de Camperdown”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “сражение при Кампердауне”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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