Pierre-François Cornic Dumoulin (23 July 1731 – 11 April 1801) was a French Navy officer who took part in the Battle of Groix as captain of the 74-gun ship of the line Droits de l'Homme.
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and the Fourth Battle of Ushant, (known in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) was a fleet action fought on 1 June 1794 between the British and French...
The Biscay campaign of June 1795 consisted of a series of manoeuvres and two battles fought between the British Channel Fleet and the French Atlantic Fleet off the Southern coast of Brittany in the Bay of Biscay during the French Revolutionary Wars....
France, the previous host of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 255 competitors, 219 men and 36 women, took part in 112 events in 17 sports. At the beginning of the games there was an...
