A French force from Cayenne under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Jean-Michel Mahė recaptured Gorée from the British on 18 January 1804. The vessels...

Île de Gorée (French pronunciation: [ildəɡoʁe]; "Gorée Island"; Wolof: Beer Dun)[citation needed] is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts)...

this end, a succession of small British military expeditions landed in Senegal and captured Gorée and Fort Saint Louis, the French slave fort located at...

The French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of Saint-Louis, Senegal, followed by the French capture of the island of Gorée from...

defeat the French army during the Battle of Vertières and the French colony of Saint-Domingue finally won independence from France on 1 January 1804 which...

Favorite) was a 16-gun Cormorant-class sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Rotherhithe. The French captured her in 1806 and renamed her Favorite. However...

Palinure-class of 16-gun brigs of the French Navy, and was launched in 1804. In French service she captured Carnation before Circe captured her in turn....

Traveller was a French prize that entered British records in 1804. She initially traded between Plymouth and Italy and then from 1805 made two voyages...

invasion of Holland. In April 1800, Melpomene was active along the coast of Senegal and led a small squadron that captured the island of Gorée. She later...

then on 17–18 January 1804 captured Gorée from the British. (The British recaptured Gorée some months later.) On 9 November 1804, Mahé was promoted to...