When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina ( the keel, or the hull, of the ship ), Puppis ( the poop deck, or stern ), and Vela ( the sails ).

Bark " small ship " is attested from 1420, from Old French barque, from Vulgar Latin barca ( 400 ).

The more precise meaning " three-masted ship " arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

The ship was La Concorde of Saint-Malo, a large French guineaman carrying a cargo of slaves.

The incident was chronicled in the Boston News Letter, which called Teach the commander of a " French ship of 32 Guns, a Briganteen of 10 guns and a Sloop of 12 guns.

However, he had made a serious misjudgement: there was enough room between Guerrier and the shoal for an enemy ship to cut across the head of the French line, allowing the unsupported vanguard to be caught in a crossfire by two divisions of enemy ships.

Brueys ' dispositions had a second significant flaw: the 160 yard gaps between ships were large enough for a British ship to push through and break the French line.

It also created areas within the French line that were not covered by the broadside of any ship.

At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

Foley had intended to anchor alongside the French ship and engage it closely, but his anchor took too long to descend and his ship passed Guerrier entirely.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

Miller steered his ship through the middle of the melee between the anchored British and French ships until he encountered the third French ship Spartiate.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

The fifth French ship, Peuple Souverain, was attacked from either side by Defence and Orion and rapidly lost the fore and main masts.

The first discovery of the diffuse nebulous nature of the Orion Nebula is generally credited to French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, on 26 November 1610 when he made a record of observing it with a refracting telescope purchased by his patron Guillaume du Vair.

French observer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc is credited with the discovery of the Orion Nebula in 1610.

Amongst these were the British cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Argonaut, HMS Emerald, HMS Orion, the battleship HMS Warspite and the Free French Navy cruiser Georges Leygues.

Much later he created others in collaboration with various partners, namely the medieval architect Jhen ( initially entitled Xan ) in 1978, the French revolutionary officer Arno in 1984, the Athenian Orion in 1990, and the Egyptian Keos in 1992.

In May 1798, the Orion joined the squadron, under Nelson's command, that was sent into the Mediterranean to seek and destroy the French.

The visitors enjoyed the spectacular flying performances and static exhibitions of the Russian MiG-29K, Su-30MKI and Il-78 tanker ; the American F-15E, C-130J Super Hercules and P-3C Orion aircraft ; the French vintage Mirage 2000 and Falcon 2000 ; the British Hawk 100, Jaguar and Sea Harriers, and the Indian Dhruv ( Advanced Light Helicopter ) and Intermediate Jet Trainer ( IJT ) and the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen.

To maximize his chances of catching the French, Bridport specifically ordered his fastest ships HMS Sans Pareil, HMS Orion, HMS Colossus, HMS Irresistible, HMS Valiant and HMS Russell, to break from the formation and lead the pursuit at 06: 30.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

* 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist ( b. 1787 )

* 1717 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat ( d. 1787 )

In 1787, David did not become the Director of the French Academy in Rome, which was a position he wanted dearly.

In 1787 the French physicist Jacques Charles found that oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and air expand to the same extent over the same 80 kelvin interval.

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787 – 1802 ( 1996 ).

* 1787 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer ( d. 1851 )

* 1787 – François Guizot, French statesman ( d. 1874 )

In 1795 governor Robert Brooke ( 1787 – 1801 ) was alerted that the French had overrun the Netherlands, forcing the Dutch to become their allies.

* 1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist ( d. 1850 )

* 1698 – François Francoeur, French composer and violinist ( d. 1787 )

** François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist ( b. 1787 )

* July 10 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist ( b. 1787 )

In 1889, for his final examination at the end of his course of study, he submitted his opera Gina, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani which was adapted from the old French play Catherine, ou La Croix d ' or by Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville ( 1787 — 1865 ).

The piece, composed in 1787, was commissioned to mark the death of the wife of the French ambassador in St. Petersburg.

This changed the new republic from an Anglo-Prussian to a French client state ; henceforth it would conduct a foreign and military policy dictated by France, where its predecessor had followed British dictates since 1787 ( an offensive and defensive alliance of the two republics was part of the treaty ), while its economic policies would in effect also be made subservient to the interests of France.

In 1787, Pigneau de Béhaine, a French Catholic priest, petitioned the French government and organized French military volunteers to aid Nguyễn Ánh in retaking lands his family lost to the Tây Sơn.

During the reign of her husband, Marie Antoinette used many French Crown Jewels for personal adornment by having the individual gems placed into new settings and combinations, but the French Blue remained in this pendant except for a brief time in 1787, when the stone was removed for scientific study by Mathurin Jacques Brisson and returned to its setting soon thereafter.

In 1787, French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, reported the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen growing in a garden in Oaxaca.

This work was published in 1756 ( the year of Wolfgang's birth ), and went through two further German editions ( 1769, 1787 ), as well as being translated into Dutch ( 1766 ) and French ( 1770 ).