Counter-Admiral Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin was a French Navy officer and explorer. He fought in numerous naval engagements during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and conducted several
1837 lithograph of Hamelin by Antoine Maurin
The action of 18 September 1810, where Hamelin was captured
Hamelin's name on the Arc de Triomphe, north pillar
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The French Imperial Navy was the navy of the First French Empire which existed between 1804 and 1815. It was formed in May 1804 from the navy of the French First Republic, and spent its existence figh
View of the Port of Brest by Jean-François Hue, 1794
1850 illustration of Napoleon inspecting the Imperial Navy's Cherbourg squadron in May 1811
1836 painting of Bucentaure at Trafalgar by Auguste Mayer
The 1810 Battle of Grand Port, the Imperial Navy's greatest victory over the British