Complex sentence: Linois was a highly experienced officer, who had been engaged with the British on a number of occassions during the French Revolutionary Wars: in May 1794 he was captured when his frigate "Atalante" was run down in the mid-Atlantic by HMS "Swiftsure".
Split into simpler sentences: Linois was a highly experienced officer, who had been engaged with the British on a number of occassions during the French Revolutionary Wars. In May 1794 he was captured when his frigate "Atalante" was run down in the mid-Atlantic by HMS "Swiftsure".