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Raid on Dunkirk

7 juil. 1800 · 51.06° N, 2.35° E

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7 juil. 1800
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Bataille
Coordonnées
51.06° N, 2.35° E
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1800 raid, part of the French Revolutionary Wars
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Raid on Dunkirk (1800)

Part of the War of the Second Coalition

The raid on Dunkirk was an attack by a British Royal Navy force on the well-defended French anchorage of Dunkirk in the English Channel on 7 July 1800 during the War of the Second Coalition. French Navy forces had been blockaded in their harbours during the conflict, and often the only method of attacking them was through fireships or "cutting-out" expeditions, in which boats would carry boarding parties into the har…

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