Fireships

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• Fireships (album) — Infobox Album | Name = Fireships Type = Album Artist = Peter Hammill Background = orange Released = 1992 Recorded = November 1990 August 1991 Genre = Art rock Length = Label = Fie! Records Producer = Peter Hammill, David Lord Reviews = *Allmusic… …   Wikipedia

• Fireships —    WM Ineffectual employment of by French, 98; described by Captain Knox, 99; Montcalm on the cause of their failure, 99 …   The makers of Canada

• Raid on the Medway — Part of the Second Anglo Dutch War Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Corn …   Wikipedia

• Battle of the Basque Roads — The Battle of the Basque Roads was a naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars. On the night of April 11 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads. In the… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Navarino — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Navarino partof=the Greek War of Independence and the Russo Turkish War of 1828 1829 caption= The Naval Battle of Navarino (1827). Oil painting by Carneray. date=20 October 1827 place=Navarino, Greece… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Texel — Infobox Military Conflict caption= The Battle of the Texel, 11/21 August 1673 by Willem van de Velde, the younger, painted 1683. The ship at the centre is Dutch Admiral Cornelis Tromp s flagship Gouden Leeuw , 82 guns. conflict= Battle of Texel… …   Wikipedia

• Hellburners — (Dutch: hellebranders ; brander is Dutch for fireship ) are specialised fireships used in the Siege of Antwerp (1584 1585) during the Eighty Years War between the Dutch rebels and the Habsburgs. They were floating bombs, also called Antwerp Fire …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Colberger Heide — The naval Battle of Colberger Heide (or Colberg Heath) took place on 1 July 1644 during the Danish Swedish War (part of the Thirty Years War), off northern Germany. It was a slight victory for a Danish fleet commanded by Vind, assisted by Grabow… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Agosta — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Agosta partof=the Franco Dutch War campaign= caption= date=April 22, 1676 place=Near Agosta casus= territory= result=Tactically Indecisive , French strategic victory combatant1=flagicon|Netherlands|pri …   Wikipedia

• Spanish Armada — Battle of Gravelines Part of the Anglo Spanish War The Spanish Armada and English ships in August 1588, by unknown painter (English School, 16th century …   Wikipedia