HMS Brunswick (1790)
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HMS Brunswick was a 74-gun third rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford. She was first commissioned in the following month under Sir Hyde Parker for the Spanish
Brunswick (centre) at the Glorious First of June
Brunswick (centre), following her engagement with Vengeur du Peuple (left) and Achille (right), on 1 June 1794
Cornwallis's Retreat, June 17, 1795, Thomas Luny
The 1807 bombardment of Copenhagen by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Cornwallis's Retreat
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Cornwallis's Retreat was a naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a British Royal Navy squadron of five ships of the line and two frigates was attacked by a much larger French
HMS Brunswick (1790)
…of June where she fought a hard action against the French 74-gun Vengeur du Peuple. Brunswick was in a small squadron under William Cornwallis that encountered a large French fleet in June 1795. The British ships successfully retreated into the Atlantic through a combination of good seamanship, good fortune…
William Cornwallis, the British commander at the engagement
1802 engraving of the battle
First phase: the two squadrons fight each other