{"slug": "french-navy", "label": "French Navy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Navy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217406", "qid": "Q217406", "description": "maritime arm of the French Armed Forces", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1664, 1863], "span_label": ["1664 CE", "1863 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brittany", "label": "Brittany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berber-people", "label": "Berber people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "curacao", "label": "Curaçao", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1664, "year_label": "1664 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – Surrounded by a Berber army, the French Navy evacuates the presidio of Jijel, a Mediterranean Sea port in what is now the Republic of Algeria, after having captured it from the Algiers Regency on June 12.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372648278#October–December", "title": "1664", "revid": 1372648278, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Early March – Start of the Cassard expedition, a sea voyage by French Navy captain Jacques Cassard during which he ransacks Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands and pillages Montserrat, Antigua, Surinam, Berbice, Essequibo, St. Eustatius and Curaçao, returning to France with loot worth over nine million francs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#January–March", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the Chameau, a ship of the French Navy, after the vessel is driven by a storm into rocks off of the coast of Nova Scotia. Reportedly, 180 bodies wash ashore near Louisbourg. The ship's cargo, which included a fortune in gold and silver coins, is discovered 240 years later in 1965.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#July–September", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 29", "text": "April 29 – The French Navy frigate Renommée approaches the French colony of Nova Scotia, after having been dispatched to warn French forces at Louisbourg of the impending attack by British American forces. However, the Massachusetts privateer HMS Shirley Galley, commanded by John Rous, attacks the Renommée and forces it to sail away. The command at Louisbourg is thus not warned of the impending attack.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353016128#April–June", "title": "1745", "revid": 1353016128, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16–17 – War of the First Coalition: Cornwallis's Retreat – A British Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fends off a numerically superior French Navy fleet, off the coast of Brittany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352627752#January–June", "title": "1795", "revid": 1352627752, "section": "Events › January–June"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – The first ever submarine to be propelled by mechanized (rather than human) power, Plongeur, of the French Navy, propelled by compressed air, is launched in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#April", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › April"}}]}