Category
page 1Fire ship attacks
Battle of Red Cliffs
battle fought at the end of the Han dynasty
fire ship
ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire, and then steered or allowed to drift into an enemy fleet
Siege of Tyre
siege of the largest and most important city-state of Phoenicia by Alexander the Great
Battle of Chesma
1770 battle
Raid on the Medway
Dutch naval attack (1667) during the Second Anglo-Dutch War
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue
1692 battles of the Nine Years' War
Battle of the Downs
1639 naval battle
Fall of Antwerp
1584 siege
General Sherman incident
battle
Battle of Cape Bon
battle
Battle of Fehmarn
1644 naval battle of the Torstenson War
Battle of the Basque Roads
1809 naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars
Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
1568 naval battle
Burning of the Ottoman flagship off Chios
18 June 1822 historical event