HMS Jupiter (1778)
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HMS Jupiter was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She served in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned 30 years
Jupiter at the action of 20 October 1778
Battle of Port Louis
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The Battle of Port Louis was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought on 11 December 1799 at the mouth of the Tombeau River near Port Louis on the French Indian Ocean island o
HMS Jupiter (1778)
…of Muizenberg in 1795, winning the battle honour 'Cape of Good Hope' for the latter. In 1799 Jupiter battled a French frigate in the aftermath of the Battle of Algoa Bay. On 25 April 1799 Jupiter, Adamant, and Tremendous recaptured Chance as she lay at anchor under the guns of the battery at Connonies-Point, Île de…
Painting of the battle by Auguste Étienne François Mayer
Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite, the French commander at the battle
1864 painting of the battle in Algoa Bay
Aquatint of the destruction of Preneuse