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    The siege of Bastia was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars. The Corsican people...
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    Revolutionary Wars. The campaign centred on sieges of three principal towns in Northern Corsica; San Fiorenzo, Bastia and Calvi, which were in turn surrounded...
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    Corsica near Bastia, possibly due to the failure of the commander Dragut to honour Suleiman's orders. The Ottoman fleet led an invasion of the Balearic...
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    Charles Brisbane (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    occupation of the city, and afterwards in Corsica, both at the siege of Saint-Florent and at the siege of Bastia. Brisbane was under the immediate orders of Captain...
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    February, after which, Nelson moved to intensify the blockade off Bastia. For the rest of the month, he carried out raids along the coast and intercepted...
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    times. In the Middle Ages Bastia was entangled in the struggle between the communes of Assisi and Perugia; in 1319, after a siege of seven months, troops from...
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    Honoré Vial (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    in Antibes and joined the navy in 1788 at the age of 22. In 1794 he was present at the Siege of Bastia as a lieutenant in the infantry and later served...
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    Benjamin Hallowell Carew (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    the Siege of Toulon in that year. He was involved in the Siege of Bastia under the command of Lord Hood, and then as a volunteer at the capture of Calvi...
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  • Augustus De Butts (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    Revolutionary Wars, fighting in the Siege of Toulon, the Siege of Bastia, and the Siege of Calvi. He was the fourth son of Elias De Butts and was born in Ireland...
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