What the records say
- When
- 27 Jan 1799
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 22.00° N, 113.70° E
- Description
- 1799 Encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars
- Naval
- yes
Macau Incident (1799)
Encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars
The Macau Incident was an inconclusive encounter between a powerful squadron of French and Spanish warships and a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago off Macau on 27 January 1799. The incident took place in the context of the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, the allied squadron attempting to disrupt a valuable British merchant convoy due to sail from Qing Dynasty China.…
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