The Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez was fought on 18 July 1805 between a combined flotilla of the Batavian Navy and French Imperial Navy under Carel Hendrik Ver Huell and a Royal Navy fleet under Lor
The engagement between the Dutch and British fleets during the Dutch flotilla's voyage to Boulogne, 1805 Martinus Schouman, 1806
The Batavian fleet in Vlissingen, 1804
The engagement near Ostend, 1804
Carel Hendrik Ver Huell.
Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom at the start of the War of the Third Coalition, although never carried out, was a major influence on British naval strategy and the fortification of t
Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez
…flotilla was able to resist several attacks from the British and successfully reached Boulogne-sur-Mer. It intended for the Batavian Navy to take part in Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom. To this end, a large flotilla of flat-bottomed boats was built in the Batavian Republic, that had to be transported over sea to Boulogne, where the…
1806 painting of Napoleon distributing the Legion of Honour at the Camp of Boulogne on 16 August 1804
The First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte Visits the Arsenal of Boulogne, Maurice Orange
Cartoon on the invasion, showing a tunnel under the English Channel and a fleet of balloons
Buonaparte, 48 hours after landing. John Bull, a national personification of England, holds the head of Napoleon after a conjectured French invasion. 1803 caricature by James Gillray