The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

On 10 May 1810, a squadron consisting of the 36-gun frigate HMS Caroline, formerly French frigate HMS Piedmontaise, 18-gun sloop HMS Barracouta, and the 12-gun transport HMS Mandarin left Madras with money, supplies and troops to support the garrison at Amboyna, recently captured from the Dutch.

* 1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Hood ; renamed, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

In the late 19th century ( beginning about 1858 with the construction of prototypes by the British and French navies ), the armoured frigate was a type of ironclad warship and for a time was the most powerful type of vessel afloat.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

In French, the term " frigate " became a verb, meaning ' to build long and low ', and an adjective, adding further confusion.

Gun deck of the Pallas class frigate ( 1808 ) | Pallas class frigate French frigate Méduse ( 1810 ) | Méduse.

The classic sailing frigate, well-known today for its role in the Napoleonic wars, can be traced back to French developments in the second quarter of the 18th century.

The Amphitrite group was named after the French frigate Amphitrite of the Jesuit missionary.

Preble commanded the frigate Essex, which he sailed around Cape Horn into the Pacific to protect American merchantmen in the East Indies ; he recaptured several ships that had been seized by French privateers.

Turner brought the stone to England aboard the captured French frigate HMS Egyptienne, landing in Portsmouth in February 1802.

French Georges Leygues frigate | F70 type frigates ( here, FS La Motte-Picquet | La Motte-Picquet ) are fitted with VDS ( Variable Depth Sonar ) type DUBV43 or DUBV43C towed sonars

The first survey of the archipelago was made by the French frigate L ' Heure du Berger in 1767.

Graves ordered the Terrible to be scuttled on 11 September due to her leaky condition, and was notified on 13 September that the French fleet was back in the Chesapeake ; he still did not learn that de Grasse's line had not included the fleet of de Barras, because the frigate captain making the report had not counted the ships.

* French frigate Méduse ( 1810 ), which inspired several works of art:

Charles Vane attacked several small settlements in the Bahamas, but after he refused to attack a stronger French frigate, he was deposed for cowardice and replaced as captain by " Calico Jack " Rackham.

They came upon a French frigate, with some six or seven of her prizes, replenishing her water casks ashore.

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

* La Fayette-class frigate, a class of French frigates

** La Fayette ( F710 ), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class

The French frigate Boudeuse ( 1766 ) | Boudeuse, of Louis Antoine de Bougainville

The French Navy has a flotilla based in Réunion, comprising ( from left to right on the photo ): the Southern patrol ship Albatros, the frigate Floréal, the P400 class patrol vessels La Rieuse and La Boudeuse and the patrol boat of the Gendarmerie Navale Jonquille, the BATRAL La Grandière and the Garonne, behind the CIGH22 tank, and the swift boat Vétiver ( outside the water ).

The French Navy has a flotilla based in Réunion, comprising ( from left to right on the photo ): the Southern patrol ship Albatros, the frigate Floréal, the P400 class patrol vessels La Rieuse and La Boudeuse and the patrol boat of the Gendarmerie Navale Jonquille, the BATRAL La Grandière and the Garonne, behind the CIGH22 tank, and the swift boat Vétiver ( outside the water ).

In 1766 the French Kingdom annexed Lorraine and the following year bought Corsica from Genoa.

* 1766 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general ( d. 1815 )

* 1766 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon ( d. 1842 )

* 1766 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist ( d. 1831 )

* 1766 – Emmanuel, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal ( d. 1847 )

The acquisition of Lorraine for the former Polish king, however, proved of lasting benefit to France, as it passed under direct French rule with Stanisław's death in 1766.

* May 2 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter ( d. 1766 )

* July 25 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon ( b. 1766 )

** Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general ( b. 1766 )

* May 29 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal ( b. 1766 )

* July 14 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer ( b. 1766 )

* March 19 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar ( d. 1766 )

* September 29 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier ( d. 1766 )

The Electoral Palatinate was a much larger territory than what later became known as the Rhenish Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ), on the left bank of the Rhine, and is now the modern region of the Palatinate in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and parts of the French region of Alsace ( bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766 ).

When Stanisław died on 23 February 1766, Lorraine was annexed by France and reorganized as a province by the French government.

Ignacy Krasicki ( 3 February 173514 March 1801 ), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia ( in German, Ermland ) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, Primate of Poland ), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet (" the Prince of Poets "), a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.

The acquisition of Lorraine ( effective in 1766 at Stanislaus ' death ) was to be the last territorial expansion of France on the continent before the French Revolution.

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 ).

* The eighteenth century French dancer and courtesan Marie-Madeleine Guimard named the private theater in her private palace ( 1766 ) the Temple of Terpsichore.

The Provincial Patent ( 1766 ) was granted to officer veterans of the French and Indian War.

With the death of the last Duke Stanislas in 1766, the duchy became a French province and Nancy remained its capital.

François-Pierre-Gonthier Maine de Biran ( November 29, 1766 in Bergerac, France – July 20, 1824 in Paris, France ), usually known simply as Maine de Biran, was a French philosopher.

August 2, 1766 saw the birth of Saint-Pierre de Louis Delgrès, a mixed-race free black who would serve in the French army and fight the British in 1794, before becoming the leader of the unsuccessful resistance in Guadeloupe against General Richepance, whom Napoleon had sent to restore slavery to that colony.

In 1766 the duchy was inherited by the French crown and became the province of Lorraine.