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Captain Daniel Woodriff was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Woodriff made two voyages to Australia; he served as the n
Portrait of Woodriff
HMS Calcutta (centre) under Woodriff at the action of 26 September 1805
Allemand's expedition of 1805, often referred to as the Escadre invisible in French sources, was an important French naval expedition during the Napoleonic Wars, which formed a major diversion to the
Daniel Woodriff
…Saint Helena to escort a merchant convoy back to England. She arrived there on 3 August 1804 and sailed with six merchantmen back to England. At the action of 26 September 1805, as the convoy approached the entrance to the English Channel, they encountered a larger French squadron. Woodriff attacked, sacrificing his ship to…
Allemand's squadron pursuing a British convoy on 25 September 1805
Zacharie Allemand, the expedition's commander