French ship Charlemagne

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The Charlemagne was an 80-gun French ship of the line commissioned in 1852. The ship was in the Mediterranean Sea in 1852.[1] The ship was sent by Napoleon III to the Black Sea as a show of force in violation of the London Straits Convention just prior to the Crimean War.[2]

Notes

  1. Calhoun. Pg 13
  2. Royle. Pg 19

References

  • Calhoun, Gordon "The Flagship's Roman Holiday, USS Cumberland's 1850's Mediterranean Cruises" The Day Book Vol 10 Issue 2 Hampton Roads Naval Museum <http://www.hrnm.navy.mil/daybooks/volumexissue2.pdf>
  • Royle, Trevor Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 (2000) Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 1-4039-6416-5

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