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    to America she captured the American privateer "Gates" in September 1779. Triton joined Rear admiral George Rodney's fleet for the Relief of Gibraltar...
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    Cumia reticulata, common name the false triton, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colubrariidae. In this family, there...
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    of the frigate HMS Surprize. Shortly afterwards he became captain of the Triton. In 1757 he became chief officer of the Garland. In 1759, during the Seven...
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    Ligondès. In the action of 20 October 1778, Triton managed to disable HMS Medea and fight of the 50-gun Jupiter. In 1779, she was part of the light squadron in...
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    1778 was an inconclusive engagement between the French ship-of-the-line Triton and British ship-of-the-line Jupiter with a frigate Medea that took place...
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  • giant and terrestrial planets. She also studied in the icy surfaces of Io, Triton and Pluto. MPC · 6512 6514 Torahiko 1987 WY Torahiko Terada (1878–1935)...
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    Grasse's squadron and Saint-Simon's expeditionary corps, along with Glorieux, Triton and Vaillant, and the frigates Andromaque and Diligente. In early 1782,...
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  • Gaspard de Ligondès (category 1779 deaths)
    Ligondès (Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort, 11 December 1732 – Brest, 26 January 1779) was a French Navy officer. He served in the American Revolutionary War....
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  • returned to Brest on 4 May 1779 with 400 prisoners. Later that year, Solitaire was attached to a squadron under Orvilliers. In late 1779, Monteclerc was appointed...
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    Kratos Leto Maia Metis Momus Nemesis Nereus Nike Pan Persephone Phobos Priapus Proteus Rhea Scamander Selene Thanatos Themis Thetis Triton Zelus Zephyrus...
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    Africa but before she could deliver them to a port in the British Caribbean. Triton captured off Loango on 16 July 1860 by Mystic, and 20 May 1861 off Kongo...
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    Ἀθηνᾶ). In some versions of the myth, Athena killed Pallas, daughter of Triton, then adopted her friend's name out of mourning. The adjectival form of...
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    Gleanings of natural history from a pet bird kept at a home in Essex, and in 1779 French polymath Comte de Buffon included the bird in his Histoire Naturelle...
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    and the Comte de Buffon in had described and illustrated the cockatoo in 1779. The type locality is the Maluku Islands. The salmon-crested cockatoo is...
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    broken up 1817 HMS Ulysses 1779 – sold 1816 HMS Serapis (I) 1779 – taken by John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard 1779 HMS Endymion 1779 – lost 1790 HMS Assurance...
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    Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Cricetinae Genus: Cricetus Leske, 1779 Species: C. cricetus Binomial name Cricetus cricetus (Linnaeus, 1758) European...
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    2018. Retrieved 8 February 2020. The Defence of Admiral Keppel. J. Almon. 1779. Syrett 1998, p. 40. Syrett 1998, p. 41. Syrett 1998, p. 42. Syrett 1998...
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    Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (category Naval battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783))
    principal goals upon its entry into the American War of Independence in 1779 was the recovery of Gibraltar, which had been lost to Great Britain in 1704...
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    1760–1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794...
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    1760–1764 1765 1766 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794...
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    captured 12 October 1702), sold 1713 Triton 42 (fifth rate, i.e. not a ship of the line) (1697, ex-French Triton, captured 12 October 1702) – sold 1709...
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    (1638) – deleted May 1661 Triomphe 30 guns (1638) – taken to pieces 1662 Triton 26 guns (1638) – captured by the English in September 1652 Victoire 34 guns...
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    port where they began. In 1960, the American nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton circumnavigated the globe in 60 days, 21 hours for Operation Sandblast....
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    Purchased brigs 1779–82 – 11 vessels purchased on stocks Swallow (1779) Drake (1779) Zephyr (1779) Scourge (1779) Lively (1779) Alert (1779) Scout (1780)...
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    Arti per la Sicilia 61: 211-227 ICZN 1993. Opinion 1765. Fusus Helbling, 1779 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): suppressed, and Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815 and Colubraria...
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    launched 1 January 1671 at Bayonne – renamed Brillant in June 1671, then Triton in June 1678; deleted 1694. Aventurier class, designed by Louis Audibert:...
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    history, from the earliest accounts to the present time – Volume 5 (p. 34), 1779. L Kahn-Lyotard, Greek and Egyptian Mythologies Archived 12 April 2023 at...
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    to Nesquik Many North American brands are now owned and marketed by BlueTriton Brands. Aberfoyle (Ontario, Canada) Arrowhead (US) Calistoga (US) Deep Spring...
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    Action of 8 January 1780 (category Naval battles of the Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783))
    HMS Convert (32) Captain Henry Harvey HMS Pearl (28) Captain George Montagu HMS Triton (24) Captain Skeffington Lutwidge HMS Pegasus (24) Captain John Bazely HMS Porcupine...
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    in 1665. Circe, an opera composed by Henri Desmarets in 1694. La Circe, a 1779 opera seria by Josef Mysliveček. Rolf Riehm's 2014 opera Sirenen is based...
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