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 8 January 1916 Action of 8 January 1916 The Action of 8 January 1916 was a naval encounter between the Russian dreadnought "Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya" and the Ottoman battlecruiser "Yavuz Sultan Selim" in the Black Sea. After a brief exchange of fire the Ottomans withdrew. On 8 January 1916, "Yavuz Sultan Selim" was scheduled to arrive off of Zonguldak to cover the entrance of the empty 4,400 ton collier "Carmen". Early that morning the collier was intercepted by the Russian destroyers "Pronzitelnyi" and "Leitenant Shestakov" off of Kirpen island and sunk. As she was returning to the Bosporus, "Yavuz" spotted the two destroyers