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The Battle of the Levant Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 7 October 1795. During the battle, a powerful French squadron surprised a valuable British convoy from the Levant off Cape St Vincent on the coast of Portugal. The convoy was weakly defended, and although the small escort squadron tried to drive the French back, they were outmatched. In the ensuing action one of the British ships of the line and almost the entire convoy was overrun and captured. The French commander, Commodore Joseph de Richery, then retired to the neutral Spanish port of Cádiz, where he came under blockade.

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  • The Battle of the Levant Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 7 October 1795. During the battle, a powerful French squadron surprised a valuable British convoy from the Levant off Cape St Vincent on the coast of Portugal. The convoy was weakly defended, and although the small escort squadron tried to drive the French back, they were outmatched. In the ensuing action one of the British ships of the line and almost the entire convoy was overrun and captured. The French commander, Commodore Joseph de Richery, then retired to the neutral Spanish port of Cádiz, where he came under blockade. The annual British Levant convoy was a mercantile operation in which valuable merchant shipping from ports across the Eastern Mediterranean gathered together for security under escort to Britain by Royal Navy warships. In 1795, this escort comprised three ships of the line, one in a poor state of repair, and several frigates under the command of Commodore . Taylor split the convoy, sailing in two separate divisions. On 7 October a French squadron under Richery, sent from Toulon to attack the Newfoundland fisheries, encountered Taylor's division of the convoy. Taylor attempted to hold off Richery for long enough for the merchant ships to scatter and escape, but one of his ships, HMS Censeur lost a top-mast as he formed a line of battle and was rapidly overwhelmed by the French. With his line broken and frigates seizing the merchant ships unopposed, Taylor turned away from the battle and withdrew, leaving the convoy to its fate. Only one ship survived. Richery took his prizes to Cádiz in Southern Spain, where he was subject to a blockade by a British squadron under Rear-Admiral Robert Mann. Nearly a year later he escaped with the help of the Spanish to inflict severe damage on the fishing fleets off Maritime Canada. (en)
  • La Battle del Convoglio di Levante fu una battaglia navale combattuta nell'ambito delle Guerre rivoluzionarie francesi il 7 ottobre 1795. Nel corso della battaglia, un potente squadrone francese sorprese un notevole convoglio inglese proveniente da Levante al largo di Capo San Vincenzo, presso le coste del Portogallo. Il convoglio era poco difeso, anche se un piccolo squadrone cercò di respingere i francesi, ma venne sopraffatto. Nell'azione militare che ne seguì una delle navi di linea inglesi e quasi l'intero convoglio vennero catturati. Il comandante francese, il commodoro , si ritirò quindi nel porto neutrale spagnolo di Cadice. L'annuale convoglio navale britannico proveniente da Levante era un'operazione mercantile di notevole valore in quanto andava a toccare i principali porti del Mediterraneo orientale e si serviva per la propria sicurezza delle navi della Royal Navy. Nel 1795, questa scorta era composta da tre navi di linea, una delle quali necessitava di riparazioni, e diverse fregate al comando del commodoro Thomas Taylor. Taylor divise il convoglio, salpando in due divisioni separate. Il 7 ottobre lo squadrone francese al comando di Richery, inviato da Tolone per attaccare i pescherecci di Terranova, incontrò una divisione di Taylor del convoglio. Taylor tentò di resistere ai francesi il tempo sufficiente per permettere ai mercantili di fuggire, ma una delle sue navi, la HMS Censeur perse il proprio albero maestro e venne sopraffatta dalla linea nemica. Con le fregate nemiche in azione contro le sue navi, Taylor decise di ritirarsi dallo scontro, lasciando le navi del convoglio al loro destino nelle mani dei francesi. Sopravvisse una sola nave mercantile. Richery portò le navi catturate a Cadice, nella Spagna meridionale, dove comunque uno squadrone inglese al comando del contrammiraglio gli pose un blocco navale. (it)
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  • The Battle of the Levant Convoy was a naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 7 October 1795. During the battle, a powerful French squadron surprised a valuable British convoy from the Levant off Cape St Vincent on the coast of Portugal. The convoy was weakly defended, and although the small escort squadron tried to drive the French back, they were outmatched. In the ensuing action one of the British ships of the line and almost the entire convoy was overrun and captured. The French commander, Commodore Joseph de Richery, then retired to the neutral Spanish port of Cádiz, where he came under blockade. (en)
  • La Battle del Convoglio di Levante fu una battaglia navale combattuta nell'ambito delle Guerre rivoluzionarie francesi il 7 ottobre 1795. Nel corso della battaglia, un potente squadrone francese sorprese un notevole convoglio inglese proveniente da Levante al largo di Capo San Vincenzo, presso le coste del Portogallo. Il convoglio era poco difeso, anche se un piccolo squadrone cercò di respingere i francesi, ma venne sopraffatto. Nell'azione militare che ne seguì una delle navi di linea inglesi e quasi l'intero convoglio vennero catturati. Il comandante francese, il commodoro , si ritirò quindi nel porto neutrale spagnolo di Cadice. (it)
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