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  • French brig Lodi (1797)
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  • Lodi (or Lody) was the Venetian brig Pollux, launched in 1796, that the French captured at Corfu in 1797. She took part in a sanguinary and inconclusive single-ship action with a British privateer shortly after her capture. She served in the Mediterranean carrying dispatches between France and Alexandria and then moved to the West Indies where she supported the French attempt to defeat the Haitian Revolution on Saint Domingue. HMS Racoon captured her in 1803; her subsequent fate is unknown.
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  • HMS Racoon capturing French brig-corvette Lodi, circle of William John Huggins
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  • Lodi (or Lody) was the Venetian brig Pollux, launched in 1796, that the French captured at Corfu in 1797. She took part in a sanguinary and inconclusive single-ship action with a British privateer shortly after her capture. She served in the Mediterranean carrying dispatches between France and Alexandria and then moved to the West Indies where she supported the French attempt to defeat the Haitian Revolution on Saint Domingue. HMS Racoon captured her in 1803; her subsequent fate is unknown.