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''Généreux'' was a French 74-gun ship of the line. After capture she completed her career as part of the Royal Navy as HMS ''Généreux''. ==History== She was launched in 1785 at Rochefort. Under Louis-Jean-Nicolas Lejoille, she was one of only two ships to escape the British attack at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798, along with . Shortly after the battle of the Nile, on 18 August 1798, she fell in with a smaller British ship of the line, of 50 guns. After a long battle, the ''Généreux'' captured the ''Leander'', with the ''Leander'' suffering 35 killed and 57 wounded and the ''Généreux'' suffered around 100 killed and 180 wounded. In March 1799, ''Généreux'' escorted a convoy to Corfu. En route, her captain, Lejoille, decided to bombard Brindisi. He was killed in the ensuing exchange of fire, and lieutenant Claude Touffet took over. The city fell on 3 March after a two-hour battle.〔''Dictionnaire des capitaines de vaisseau de Napoléon'', Danielle & Bernard Quintin, SPM, 2003, ISBN 2-901952-42-9 , p. 350〕 On 6 February 1800, ''Généreux'', under Captain Renaudin,〔Fonds Marine, p.239〕 departed from Toulon leading a squadron comprising the frigate ''Badine'', the corvettes ''Sans Pareille'' and ''Fauvette'', and the fluyt ''Ville de Marseille'', under Rear-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée. In the morning of 18 February, an English fleet chased the French squadron off Lampedusa island. In the ensuing Battle of the Malta Convoy, Perrée was killed, and ''Généreux'' covered the squadron, allowing ''Badine'', ''Sans Pareille'' and ''Fauvette'' to escape, before striking her colours. She became HMS ''Généreux'' and she was in Minorca in 1801 when she press-ganged a crew from the ''Walmesley''. She engaged Spanish ships and she was intended to go to Egypt. Storm damage prevented this so she patrolled off what is now Libya. After taking part in an unsuccessful attack on the French island of Elba, she set sail from Minorca for Spithead after peace was declared. She arrived at Spithead on 27 July 1802. She was finally broken up in 1816. 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 ship Généreux (1785)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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