Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rundunar sojan ruwa ta Faransa ta sha wahala da yawa a farkon shekarun yaƙe-yaƙe na juyin juya halin Faransa, tare da adadi mai yawa na jiragen ruwa da aka kama ko aka lalata a Siege na Toulon, Mai Girma na farko na Yuni da "Croisière du Grand Hiver". A cikin bazara na 1795 da Atlantic rundunar rasa uku more jiragen ruwa a Battle of Groix da uku more aka rasa a cikin Rum a yaƙe-yaƙe na Genoa
da kuma tsibirin Hyères. A kokarin da za a sake daidaita wadannan asarar da kuma haifar da lalacewar tattalin arziki a kan kasuwancin Birtaniya, an aika da umarni ga rundunar jiragen ruwa daga Rundunar jiragen ruwa na Rumunan don tafiya zuwa Caribbean, jiragen ruwa a Saint-Domingue, kai hari ga jiragen ruwa a Jamaica sannan kuma ya hallaka kifi na cod a Newfoundland da kuma Kanada Maritimes. Daga nan sai wannan rundunar za ta koma Brest ta hanyar Azores, don karawa rundunar jiragen ruwa na Atlantic.