actionnaire

Updated: June 12, 2025

Of nineteen transports, thirteen, one of which, the Actionnaire, was a 64-gun ship armed en flûte, were taken; a weighty blow to the great Suffren, whose chief difficulty in India was inadequate material of war, and especially of spars, of which the Actionnaire carried an outfit for four ships of the line.

A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan - The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence