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Action of 7 February 1813
The Action of 7 February 1813 was a naval battle between two evenly matched frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy, ''Aréthuse'' and HMS ''Amelia''. The battle was fought in the night of 7 February 1813 at the Îles de Los, off Guinea. It lasted four hours, causing significant damage and casualties to both opponents, and resulted in a stalemate. The two ships parted and returned to their respective port of call, both sides claiming victory.
==Background==
After the British victory in the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811, all French possession in the Indian Ocean were at the hands of Britain. France had already lost the use of Cape Town in 1806 after the Battle of Blaauwberg, and of Batavia in 1811 with the British Invasion of Java. Thus, in 1813, the French Navy lacked the advanced bases it needed to support the commerce raiding frigate squadron that it had operated in the previous decade. It was therefore decided to send a force off the Western coast of Africa to disrupt British shipping closer to the metropole, but still far enough to be unreachable to the powerful British naval divisions that blockaded the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
To this end, a frigate division was given to Captain Pierre Bouvet, a skilled frigate captain,〔James ((p.189 )) credits Bouvet as being "one best officers in the French navy"〕 veteran of the Mauritius campaign and who had led the French forces during the second half of the Battle of Grand Port. The squadron comprised the 40-gun frigate ''Aréthuse'', under Bouvet himself, and the ''Rubis'', under Commander Louis-François Ollivier.〔Quintin, p.86〕〔Fonds Marine, p.476〕 Another two-frigate squadron, made up of ''Elbe'' and ''Hortense'', was to perform the same mission with a two-week interval.〔
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