 On 25 September 1806 , she was captured by the British and in March 1807 , brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Alceste . She continued to serve throughout the Napoleonic Wars and on 29 November 1811 , she led a British squadron that captured a French military convoy bound for Trieste , and in doing so , possibly changed the course of the war . In 1814 she was converted to a troopship and used to transport British soldiers to North America during the War of 1812 . 
