Mont Blanc was a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line built for the French Navy during the 1790s. In the course of her career, she was renamed no less than four times, reflecting the tides of polit
The Mont Blanc off Marseille (detail of this image), by Antoine Roux.
The Battle of Cape Ortegal was the final action of the Trafalgar campaign, and was fought between a squadron of the Royal Navy and a remnant of the fleet that had been defeated earlier at the Battle o
Strachan's Action off Ferrol Thomas Whitcombe, c. 1806