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followed her. The brig ran ashore and all aboard fled. These numbered 50 crew and 70 troops; she had landed another 50 troops when she had been anchored. On taking possession of the brig, the British discovered that she was a French naval vessel named
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as a brig at Brest either in 1793 or in May 1795. She carried out two diplomatic missions to the United States during 1794. In February 1794, she arrived at
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was cruising to windward of Grenada when she discovered a ship and a brig anchored off La Baye. As the two vessels sighted
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was a merchant ship built in 1780 at Bordeaux. She was commissioned as a privateer in 1793 at Bordeaux. However, the
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The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813: a history and comprehensive record of merchant marine losses
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captured her. She was refitted with a coppered hull and a brig rigging before her naval commission.
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French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates
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as having 10. After both vessels had been condemned at Grenada on 9 November 1795,
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they got under weigh, but the brig soon bore up and ran into Requin Bay, where
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in May 1795 in France. but was still operating under the name
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as the French ambassador to the United States to replace
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captured the ship, which was the 18-gun French corvette
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Index

French ship Brutus

French Navy Ensign
French Navy Ensign
French Navy Ensign
Brutus
French Navy
Brest
corvette
HMS Mermaid
Norfolk, Virginia
Van Stabel
Citoyen GenĂȘt
Edmond-Charles GenĂȘt
Van Stabel
Republicaine
HMS Zebra
Charleston, South Carolina


Winfield & Roberts (2015)
Demerliac (1999)
Jackson (1969)
Williams (2009)
Roche (2005)
Demerliac (1999)
"No. 13849"
The London Gazette

"No. 15205"

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