Battle of the Malta Convoy

When

18 Feb 1800

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

35.90° N, 14.51° E

Description

part of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Siege of Malta (1798–1800)

Naval

yes

1800 battle of the War of the Second Coalition

The Battle of the Malta Convoy was a naval engagement of the War of the Second Coalition fought on 18 February 1800 as part of the siege of Malta. The French garrison at the city of Valletta in Malta had been under siege for eighteen months, blockaded on the landward side by a combined force of British, Portuguese.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “défaite navale française à la bataille du convoi de Malte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Cerca de Malta, la escuadra británica de Horatio Nelson derrota a la francesa en la Batalla del Convoy de Malta”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• French Revolutionary Wars20 Apr 1792 · War