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unusual facts about ''Suffren''


Suffren

French ship Suffren, seven ships of the French Navy named after the admiral


Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1893/96 gun

It equipped the Charlemagne, République and Liberté-class battleships as well as the unique battleships Iéna and Suffren.

Cherbourg Harbour

In 1776, he set up a commission to choose between Cherbourg, Ambleteuse or Boulogne as France's main strategic port for defence of the English Channel - this was headed by Suffren and also including Dumouriez (later governor of Cherbourg) and La Bretonnière.

Dupleix

French cruiser Dupleix, French heavy cruiser of the Suffren class, launched 9 October 1930

Free French Naval Forces

When it did, important ships based in Dakar were obtained: the modern battleship Richelieu, the heavy cruiser Suffren, light cruisers Gloire, Montcalm, Georges Leygues, and a few destroyers, including cruiser-sized Le Fantasque class destroyers.

French cruiser Suffren

Launched in 1927, she was named for the 18th-century French admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, becoming the sixth vessel to bear the name Suffren.

Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War

Suffren captured Trincomalee from the British in July 1782, in spite of Hughes, and in what was apparently the last military engagement of the entire war, battled Hughes off Cuddalore, where the British were besieging the French and Mysoreans.

Roger Boutet de Monvel

Using the same publisher La vie de Lord Byron (Lord Byron's life) came into print in 1924, followed in 1929 by La vie martial du Bailli de Suffren (The Taskmaster of the Suffren's martial life), for which his brother Bernard did the advertising poster.


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