Three ships of the French Navy have borne the name of La Combattante ("Fighter", on "Fighting one"):
- A galley which took part in the raid against Teignmouth in August 1690 and destroyed numerous English ships there
- The FNFL destroyer La Combattante, a type III Hunt class destroyer leased by the UK.
- The patrol boat La Combattante P730, decommissioned in September 1996.
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“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
—14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)
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