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Sir Charles Malcolm
Sir Charles Malcolm (1782–1851) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer, who reached the rank of vice-admiral. Naval life He was the tenth son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot, youngest brother of Sir Pulteney Malcolm and Sir John Malcolm, and was born at Burnfoot in Dumfriesshire on 5 September 1782. In 1791 his name was put on the books of the ''Vengeance'', commanded by his uncle, Thomas Pasley, and in 1793 of the ''Penelope'', of which his brother Pulteney was first lieutenant. He entered the Navy in 1795 on board the ''Fox'', then commissioned by his brother, with whom he went out to the East Indies, and whom he followed to the ''Suffolk''. He was promoted by the admiral to be lieutenant on that ship, 12 January 1799, and remained in her till 3 October 1801, when he was appointed acting commander of the ''Albatross'' sloop, a promotion which was confirmed by the admiralty to 28 May 1802. In 1803, Malcolm came home acting captain of the ''Eurydice'', and on his arrival in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Engleheart
George Engleheart (1750–1829) was one of the greatest England, English painters of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway, John Smart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse (painter), Richard Crosse. Family and home Engleheart is generally thought to have been born in Kew, Surrey, on 26 October 1750. His father was Francis Englehart (died 1773), a German plaster modeller who emigrated to England as a child; his mother was Anne Dawney. He had seven brothers. The family name was changed to Engleheart after his father died. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Brown, in 1776; and the couple set up house in Prince's Street, Hanover Square, London, Hanover Square, London. Elizabeth died in April 1779, aged only 26. Engleheart moved to 4 Hertford Street in Mayfair, London. He married his second wife, Ursula Sarah Browne in 1785; and the couple had four children: George, Nathaniel, Harry and Emma. In 1813, Engleheart retired full-time to his country house in Bedfont, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Fox (1780)
HMS ''Fox'' was a 32-gun ''Active''-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 2 June 1780 at Bursledon, Hampshire by George Parsons. Early career ''Fox'' was sent to the Caribbean in late 1781 and in January the following year under Captain Thomas Windsor captured two Spanish frigates. In March 1783 under Captain George Stoney captured the Spanish frigate ''Santa Catalina''. ''Fox'' was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. In March 1797, near Visakhapatnam, ''Fox'' captured the French privateer ''Modeste'', under Jean-Marie Dutertre.Demerliac, p. 308, no 2898 Took part in the bloodless Raid on Manila in January 1798. Given that ''Fox'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September 1801, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley. He was also Lord Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He was the eldest son of The 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and Anne, the eldest daughter of The 1st Viscount Dungannon. His younger brother, Arthur, was Field Marshal The 1st Duke of Wellington. Education and early career Wellesley was born in 1760 in Dangan Castle in Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Home Popham
Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy commander who saw service against the French during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is remembered for his scientific accomplishments, particularly the development of a signal code that was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803. Early life Childhood Home Popham was born in Gibraltar on 12 October 1762, the fifteenth child of Joseph Popham, British consul at Tétouan in Morocco, and his first wife Mary, née Riggs. It is likely that the child's first name was chosen to honour Gibraltar's former Governor William Home. Mary Popham died an hour after Home was born, from complications associated with the birth. Nine months later Joseph married Catherine Lamb, who became responsible for raising Home and his siblings. The couple also had six more children. In 1769 Joseph Popham was forced to resign as consul after a personal dispute with the Moroccan Emperor regarding pirac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aber Wrac'h
The Aber Wrac'h is a small village and port located on the river Wrac'h in the commune of Landéda in the department of Finistère in France, located in Brittany. The Wrac'h's source is in Trémaouézan. It travels through Ploudaniel, Le Folgoët, Lannilis and Plouguerneau and enters the ocean in the estuary between the Sainte Marguerite peninsula and the headland of the Virgin Island. Origin of the name The Aber Wrac'h could derive its name from the first immersed rock of its channel, “Ar Wrach”, which means “the old woman” (or the wrasse) in Breton. An alternative theory is that the name is derived from the “estuary of the fairy” which may be related to the alleged Gallo-Roman bridge located upstream of the river mouth (ruins still visible today) named Pont Krac'h (Bridge of the Devil). British accounts of the 18th and 19th Century give the town's name as Averach. History The United States Navy established a naval air station on 4 June 1918 to operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Nova Scotia (1812)
When and captured the American privateer ''Rapid'' in 1812, the Royal Navy took her into service as the 14-gun gun-brig HMS ''Nova Scotia''. She was renamed HMS ''Ferret'' in 1813 and sold in 1820. Privateer ''Rapid'' ''Rapid'', of Portland, Maine, had two commanders, Captain W. Crabtree and Captain Joseph Weeks, during her career as a privateer. ''Rapid'' captured one ship, the ''Experience'', and two brigs. ''Experience''s cargo was valued at US$250,000. The owners of one brig ransomed her and ''Rapid'' sent the other, ''St. Andrews'', of eight guns and sailing in ballast, into Portland. Another report has ''Rapid'' capturing a barque ''St Andrews'', of eight guns, that she sent into Portland. The ransomed vessel may have been the schooner ''Mary'', of St Thomas, which ''Rapid'' ransomed as ''Rapid'' could not spare the men for a prize crew. ''Rapid'' also captured the brig , sailing from Poole to St. Andrews, and the brig ''Tay'', sailing from Dundee for Pictou, New Brunswi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Fly (1813)
HMS ''Fly'' (1813) was a Royal Navy built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813. She served: * on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813, * on the Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815, * on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821, * on Cape of Good Hope Station from December 1821, * in South America from 1823, * in East Indies from 1825. In December 1826 ''Fly'', under Captain Frederick Augustus Wetherall, supported the short-lived settlement of Western Port, in southern Victoria, Australia. She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828. See also * Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, (5 December 180124 March 1895), was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he provided valuable support to British merchants at Callao in Peru in the early 1820s during the Peruvian War of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Havannah (1811)
HMS ''Havannah'' was a Royal Navy 36-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was launched in 1811 and was one of twenty-seven s. She was cut down to a 24-gun sixth rate in 1845, converted to a training ship in 1860, and sold for breaking up in 1905. War service ''Havannah''s first captain was George Cadogan, who commissioned her into the Channel Fleet. ''Havannah'' was rapidly involved in operations against French coastal shipping off the Channel Islands. On 6 September 1811, the boats of ''Havannah'', under the command of her first lieutenant, William Hamley, landed a party that spiked the three 12-pounder guns of a battery on the south-west side of the Penmarks. They then brought out several coasting vessels that had taken refuge under the guns, all without taking any losses. * Schooner ''Aimable Fanny'', laden with wine and brandy, and several chasse marees: * ''St. Jean'', laden with salt; * ''Petit Jean Baptiste'', laden with wine and brandy; * ''Buonaparte'', laden with wine and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Menelaus (1810)
HMS ''Menelaus'' was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth rate frigate, launched in 1810 at Plymouth. Career ''Menelaus'' entered service in 1810 under the command of Captain Peter Parker, and within weeks of commissioning was involved in the suppression of a mutiny aboard HMS ''Africaine''. The notoriously brutal Captain Robert Corbet had been appointed to command ''Africaine'' and the crew had protested and refused to allow him to board. The Admiralty sent three popular officers to negotiate with the crew and ordered ''Menelaus'' to come alongside. If the crew of ''Africaine'' refused to agree with the appointment of Corbet, Parker had been ordered to fire on the ship until they submitted. The crew eventually agreed to allow Corbet aboard and ''Menelaus'' was not needed. In the summer of 1810, Parker was ordered to sail for the Indian Ocean to reinforce the squadron operating against Île de France and participated in the capture of the island in December 1810. In 1812, ''Menelaus'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saintes Islands
Saint is the designation of a holy person. Saint(s) may also refer to: Places Saint *Le Saint, Brittany, France Saints *Saints, Luton, Bedfordshire, England *Saints, Seine-et-Marne, France * Saints-en-Puisaye, formerly Saints, France *The Saints, Suffolk, England Saintes *Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France *, a former commune in Belgium, part of Tubize *Îles des Saintes, French Antilles *Canton of Les Saintes, Guadeloupe Battles *Battle of Saintes, a land battle between English and French forces in 1351 *Battle of the Saintes, a naval battle between British and French forces in 1782 People *Saints, inhabitants of the island of St. Helena *Latter Day Saints * Saint (name) Sports teams * Lady Saints, American women's volleyball team *New Orleans Saints, American National Football League team *New York Saints, lacrosse team *Northampton Saints, English rugby union club *St Mirren F.C., Scottish football club * St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C., Scottish football club *St. George Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, plus The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, the term West Indies is often interchangeable with the term Caribbean, although the latter may also include some Central and South American mainland nations which have Caribbean coastlines, such as Belize, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nations of Barbados, Bermuda, and Trinidad and Tobago, all of which are geographically distinct from the three main island groups, but culturally related. Origin and use of the term In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to record his arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oporto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the |
