. . . . "1810-09-13"^^ . "United Kingdom" . . "Captain Robert Corbet RN (died 13 September 1810), often spelled Corbett, was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was killed in action in highly controversial circumstances. Corbet was a strict disciplinarian, who regularly beat his men for the slightest infractions: so brutal was his regime that he provoked two mutinies, one simply at the rumour he was coming aboard a ship. These uprisings caused him to become even more vicious in his use of punishments and when he took his frigate HMS Africaine into action off \u00CEle Bourbon, his men failed to support him and may even have murdered him. In addition to his obsession with discipline and obedience, Corbet was regarded as an inefficient commander, whose standards of gunnery and training were so poor that when his ship did go into action it was ill-equipped to fight the French frigates stationed in the Indian Ocean."@en . . . . . . . . . . . "HMS Africaine, off \u00CEle Bourbon, Indian Ocean"@en . . . . . . "10640"^^ . . . . . . . "Robert Corbet"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Captain Robert Corbet RN (died 13 September 1810), often spelled Corbett, was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was killed in action in highly controversial circumstances. Corbet was a strict disciplinarian, who regularly beat his men for the slightest infractions: so brutal was his regime that he provoked two mutinies, one simply at the rumour he was coming aboard a ship. These uprisings caused him to become even more vicious in his use of punishments and when he took his frigate HMS Africaine into action off \u00CEle Bourbon, his men failed to support him and may even have murdered him. In addition to his obsession with discipline and obedience, Corbet was regarded as an inefficient commander, whose standards of gunnery and training w"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Robert Corbet, ou Robert Corbett, est un capitaine de vaisseau britannique qui combattit durant les Guerres napol\u00E9oniennes pour tenter de prendre les Mascareignes \u00E0 la France."@fr . . . . . "--09-13"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1790.0"^^ . . . "1810"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Robert Corbet"@fr . . . . . . . . . "Robert Corbet, ou Robert Corbett, est un capitaine de vaisseau britannique qui combattit durant les Guerres napol\u00E9oniennes pour tenter de prendre les Mascareignes \u00E0 la France."@fr . . . "\u2022 Raid on Saint Paul"@en . . . . . "1089632775"^^ . . . "Robert Corbet"@en . . "Robert Corbet"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "1790"^^ . . . . . . "United Kingdom"@en . . . . . . "22"^^ . "20646900"^^ . . . . . . .