siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic

Siege of Calvi

Name: Siege of Calvi
Start: 1794-06-17
Location: Calvi, France

Siege of Calvi was a siege conducted on 17 June 1794 at Calvi, in what is now France; it lasted 54 days. It was part of the Invasion of Corsica. The recorded result: Anglo-Corsican victory. Recorded strength: 2,300; Mediterranean Fleet against 6,000 total regulars and militia on the island; 2 frigates; 2 brigs; 1 gunboat.

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Print depicting the wounding of Horatio Nelson at the Siege of Calvi, 1794. Bowyer, Robert, Worthington, William Henry & Bromley, William, 1808, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fought17 June 1794lasted 54 days

WhereCalvi, France42.569N, 8.757E

OutcomeAnglo-Corsican victory

BelligerentsKingdom of Great Britain; CorsicaagainstFrance

Part ofInvasion of Corsica1794

Where it sits in the Invasion of Corsica

3 placed engagements of the Invasion of Corsica in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	17 June 1794 to 10 August 1794
Place	Calvi, France 42.569N, 8.757E
Kind	Siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength	2,300; Mediterranean Fleet	6,000 total regulars and militia on the island; 2 frigates; 2 brigs; 1 gunboat
Casualties and losses	38 killed; 50 wounded; 1,000 sick	700 killed or wounded; 2 frigates captured; 2 brigs captured; 1 gunboat captured
Commanders	Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Pasquale Paoli	Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Calvi 1420, same recorded site
Battle of Ponte Novu 1769, 44 km E
Siege of San Fiorenzo 1794, 46 km E
Siege of Furiani 1763, 55 km E
Battle of Borgo 1768, 55 km E

In the same war

Before: Siege of Bastia 4 April 1794
All 3 engagements of Invasion of Corsica

Elsewhere in 1794

Siege of Calvi is one of 2,009 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 1,383 in present-day France.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q3485851, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Calvi, revision 1383177849, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.