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 16 January 1916 Iron Cross second class. During her second cruise, "Möwe" defeated another one gun steamer in an action in the mid-Atlantic in March 1917. Action of 16 January 1916 The Action of 16 January 1916 was a single ship action of World War I. It was fought between a German auxiliary cruiser and a British merchant ship off the Portuguese islands of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean. Most successful of German commerce raiders during the war, was commanded by "Korvettenkapitän" (corvette captain) Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien and was assigned to duty in the Atlantic. "Möwe" was originally a freighter launched in 1914