The Atlantic campaign will continue throughout the…
August 1806 CE
Contre-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez is able to avoid the British squadrons searching for him by remaining deep in the South Atlantic.
However, on March 13, 1806, the British under Warren intercept and defeat an unrelated French squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois while he is returning from the Indian Ocean.
Eventually forced north in search of additional food supplies, Willaumez enters the Caribbean, where he hopes to intercept the Jamaica convoy to Britain.
The disobedience of one of his own captains foils Willaumez's plan and he orders his squadron to its final cruising ground, off Newfoundland.
In August 1806, while it is deep in the Central Atlantic, a ferocious hurricane catches the squadron and scatters it.
Willaumez eventually finds shelter in Havana; a number of his ships reach ports in the United States, some too badly damaged to ever sail again.
Only four of the eleven ships of the line that left Brest in December 1805 will ever return to France.