Action of 22 January 1783 England. Kergariou himself moved to England five years later at the outbreak of the French Revolution; in 1795, he was part of a Royalist band supported by the British government and took part in the attempted Invasion of France in 1795. At the Battle of Quiberon, Hoche's troops captured him; the Revolutionaries sentenced him to death and shot him. Action of 22 January 1783 The Action of 22 January 1783 was a single ship action fought off the Chesapeake Bay during the American War of Independence. The British frigate "Hussar", under the command of Thomas McNamara Russell, captured the French
Action of 2 January 1783 Action of 2 January 1783 The Action of 2 January 1783 was a minor naval battle that took place in the Caribbean during the last stages of the American War of Independence. Severe fighting between a Royal Navy frigate HMS "Magicienne" and a French frigate "Sibylle" went on for nearly two hours but in that time both frigates were reduced to a wreck. Captain Thomas Graves was in command of HMS "Magicienne" and was part of the British blockade off Cap-François, Saint-Domingue by the Royal Naval Jamaica station. Off Cap-François into the open sea, a French convoy was sighted by