Battle of Genoa
1795 CE.
Shown on the map at 44.407°, 8.933°.
The Battle of Genoa (also known as the Battle of Cape Noli and in French as Bataille de Gênes) was a fleet action fought between an Anglo-Neapolitan fleet and a French fleet on 13-14 March 1795 in the Gulf of Genoa during the Mediterranean campaign of 1793–1796. The French fleet was led by Counter-admiral Pierre Martin and comprised 13 ships of the line while the Anglo-Neapolitan fleet fleet, under Vice-Admiral of the Red William Hotham mustered 13 ships of the line. The battle ended with a minor Anglo-Neapolitan victory and the capture of two French ships of the line. The battle was part of a naval campaign in the spring of 1795, during which Martin sought to assert French control over the waters off Southern France. These had been effectively ceded to the British 18 months earlier when the British captured the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon. Although it was recaptured at an ensuing siege, the much of the French Navy's Mediterranean Squadron had been burned in the harbour by Anglo-Spanish boarding parties.
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