Action of 22 August 1795 1795
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 22 August 1795 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1795 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Norway | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | French Revolutionary Wars | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Batavian Republic, Kingdom of Great Britain | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 58.4431, 5.8167 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The action of 22 August 1795 was fought during the War of the First Coalition between a Royal Navy squadron of four frigates and a Batavian Navy squadron of two frigates and a cutter. Fought off the Norwegian coastal island of Eigerøya, then part of Denmark–Norway, the battle came about due to both squadrons' missions to protect their countries' trade routes to the Baltic Sea. Though Britain and the Batavian Republic were at peace, in Spring 1795 the British Admiralty ordered Royal Navy ships to begin intercepting Batavian shipping due to the Batavian Republic's status as a client state of Revolutionary France, which Britain was at war with.
A British squadron of four frigates under Captain James Alms was patrolling the entrance to the Skagerrak in August 1795 when three ships were spotted off the Norwegian coast to the north. Closing to investigate, the ships were discovered to be a Batavian squadron of two frigates and a small cutter under Captain Arnold Christiaan Leopold van Dirckinck. In the face of Alms' larger squadron the Batavian force turned away, sailing southeast along the Norwegian coast with the British approaching from the south in an effort to cut them off from the neutral Norwegian shore.
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