The East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars was a series of campaigns related to the major European conflict known as the French Revolutionary Wars, fought between 1793 and 1801 between t
Painting of the Battle of Port Louis
Illustration of the Battle of Île Ronde by Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager
c. 1800 portrait of Rainier by Thomas Hickey
Capture of La Forte, Feb 28th 1799 (Thomas Whitcombe, 1816)
The War of the First Coalition was a set of wars between a coalition of several European powers and France fought between 1792 and 1797. The coalition was only loosely allied and fought without much c
East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars
…India, and Colonel Arthur Wellesley for a major attack on Manila, to be led by Sir James Craig. The Treaty of Campo Formio and the consequent end of the War of the First Coalition in Europe caused the cancellation of these plans; Britain now fought France and its allies alone and fears were raised that the Tipu Sultan of Mysore…
War of the first coalition
The National Guard of Paris Departs for the Army by Léon Cogniet
The Allied evacuation of Toulon in December 1793
Lord Howe's action or The Glorious First of June. Oil painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1795), National Maritime Museum.