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''Lodi'' (or ''Lody'') was the Venetian brig ''Giasone'', launched in 1795. The French captured her at Corfu in 1797. She took part in a sanguinary and inconclusive single-ship action with a British privateer shortly after her capture. She continued to serve in the Mediterranean carrying dispatches between France and Alexandria and then moved to the West Indies where she supported the French attempt to defeat the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue. captured her on 11 July 1803; her subsequent fate is unknown. ==Career== ''Giasone'' was a Venetian vessel, possibly originally a cutter but completed as a brig. The French captured her at Corfu on 23 July 1797.〔''Neptunia'', Vol. 81-84, p.57.〕〔Onésime-Joachim Troude (1868), p.67.〕 The French initially named her ''Jason'', but after the battle of Lodi they renamed her ''Lodi'' on 11 November 1797.〔 ''Jason'' arrived at Toulon on on 7 February 1798. In 12 May she was in Carthage roads, while under the command of ''Enseigne de vaisseau'' Sennequier. She was on a cruise between Almeria and North Africa.〔Fonds Marine: Campagnes'', Inentaire de la sous-série Maine BB 4, Tome premier, p.210.〕 On 4 July 1798, ''Lodi'', was sailing down the Piombino Channel from Leghorn with dispatches for Napoleon Bonaparte, then at Alexandria. She encountered a British brig that attacked her and the two vessels exchanged fire. The crew of the brig twice attempted to board ''Lodi'' and twice the French repelled them. The French then attempted to board the brig, and the British repelled them. The two vessels separated and continued to exchange fire, with the French succeeding in bringing down the brig's masts. Even so, the French did not capture the brig, which used sweeps to reach the neutral coast of Tuscany, where it took refuge by a fort.〔''Victoires'' (1855), Vol 5, pp.527-9.〕 ''Lodi'', although she had retained her masts, was sufficiently damaged that she had to stop at Civita Vecchia to effect repairs.〔Onésime-Joachim Troude (1868), p.138-40.〕 ''Lodi'' then continued on to Alexandria. ''Lodi'' had lost two men killed and more than 25 sailors and soldiers wounded, including Sennequier.〔James (1837), Vol. 2, pp.223-5.〕 ''Lodi'' reported that she had engaged the British sloop of war ''Aigle'', of a "force much superior to her own".〔 Various accounts give ''Lodi''s armament as 12 guns.〔Maindron (1888), p.215.〕 Sennequier was immediately promoted to the rank of ''Capitaine de frégate''.〔''Messages'', Vol. 5, p.183.〕 There was no ''Aigle'' or ''Eagle'' in the Royal Navy at the time, nor any mention of the encounter in the logbooks of any British navy vessels matching her description.〔 A Paris newspaper later reported that on 28 July, the British privateer brig ''Acquila'', under the command of Captain Colonna, of 14 guns and 57 men, had arrived at Leghorn in great distress, having engaged a French vessel on 4 July.〔 This may have been the ship ''Eagle'', Captain Colin Campbell, of twelve 6-pounder guns and 317 tons (bm), which had received her letter of marque on 13 June 1797.〔Letter of Marque,() - accessed 14 May 2011.〕 On the night of 1 March, or the next morning, ''Lodi'' arrived at Alexandria. With the failure of Ganteaume's expeditions, she was one of the few French ships to penetrate the British blockade.〔James (1837), Vol. 3, p.99.〕 In mid-May ''Lodi'' sailed for France, taking with her General Reynier, dispatched by General Menou, the French commander in Egypt. ''Lodi'' reached Toulon on 12 June, bringing with her a captured British vessel with 3-4,000 quintals of wheat.〔Napoleon (1819), p.156.〕 In June 1799, ''Lodi'' sailed from Toulon, in company with ''Frippone'', arriving at Carthage on 24 June.〔Onésime-Joachim Troude (1868), p.158.〕 There they joined Vice-Admiral Bruix's squadron, engaged in what became known as the fruitless cruise of Bruix. On 10 April 1800 was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Gastaud. She was on a round trip carrying dispatches between Toulon and Damietta.〔Fonds Marine: Campagnes'', Inentaire de la sous-série Maine BB 4, Tome premier, p.241.〕 On 28 June 1801 she was under the command of ''lieutenant de vaisseau'' Guien. She was engaged in transporting General Reynier and dispatches from Alexandria to Nice.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「French brig Lodi (1797)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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