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Duguay-Trouin’s fleet. Duguay-Trouin’s fleet shoots its way into Rio de Janeiro; north is to the right. SEPTEMBER 12, 1711. The Saint Malo privateer René Duguay-Trouin appears off Brazil with his 74-gun, 1,400-ton, 678-man flagship Lys and its sister ship Magnanime under the Chevalier de Courserac; the 64-gun, 1,100-ton, 550-man Brillant of the Chevalier de Goyon […]

The Glorious First of June by Philip James de Loutherbourg. In 1789 the French Navy was at the peak of its strength for the eighteenth century, but with only 60 ships it was not even close to the 120 it had had during the reign of Louis XIV. During the American War of Independence (1775-1783) […]