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Action of 22 August 1795 — Wikipedia (en)

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The action of 22 August 1795 was fought during the War of the First Coalition between a Royal Navy squadron of four frigates and a Batavian Navy squadron of two frigates and a cutter. Fought off the Norwegian coastal island of Eigerøya, then part of Denmark–Norway, the battle came about due to both squadrons' missions to protect their countries' trade routes to the Baltic Sea. Though Britain and the Batavian Republic were at peace, in Spring 1795 the British Admiralty ordered Royal Navy ships to begin intercepting Batavian shipping due to the Batavian Republic's status as a client state of Revolutionary France, which Britain was at war with. A British squadron of four frigates under Captain James Alms was patrolling the entrance to the Skagerrak in August 1795 when three ships were spotted off the Norwegian coast to the north. Closing to investigate, the ships were discovered to be a Batavian squadron of two frigates and a small cutter under Captain Arnold Christiaan Leopold van Dirckinck. In the face of Alms' larger squadron the Batavian force turned away, sailing southeast along the Norwegian coast with the British approaching from the south in an effort to cut them off from the neutral Norwegian shore. At 16:15 the leading British ship HMS Stag caught and engaged the rearmost Batavian ship Alliantie; the remainder of Alms' squadron continued in pursuit of the Batavian ships. For an hour Alliantie traded broadsides with the more powerful Stag and was eventually forced to strike her colours. The remainder of the Batavian squadron escaped due to a fierce rearguard action by the frigate Argo, reaching the safety of the neutral harbour at Eigerøya.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Action of 22 August 1795» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_22_August_1795
Wikidata Q4677298: «1795 minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4677298
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