Loyalist was launched in 1793. Between 1796 and 1803 she made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She then sailed as a West Indiaman...
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United Empire Loyalist (UEL; or simply Loyalist) is an honorific title which was first given by the 1st Lord Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and Governor...
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Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. In particular, the term referred to men...
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Nestor was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. In the night of 30 December 1794, Nestor was dismasted due to the poor quality...
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merchant ship. She capsized and sank in a South Atlantic storm in 1802, but her crew were rescued with no loss of life. Cuthbertson, Brian. The Loyalist Governor:...
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Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, opposing the Patriots....
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adrift in the ship's launch, while 25, a mixture of mutineers and detainees, remained on board under Fletcher Christian. Bligh led his loyalists 3,500 nautical...
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George Gracie (category Loyalists who settled Nova Scotia)
moving as a loyalist to Nova Scotia. Gracie married Ann Marie Campbell on 8 June 1803. He was co-owner with James Cox of the privateer ship Nelson. Gracie...
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Jacob Ellegood (category United Empire Loyalists)
on his property in 1801. The Elligood (1794 ship) may have been named for him.[citation needed] Loyalist Collection, University of New Brunswick v t e...
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underwent a good repair in 1795, and before the EIC chartered Boyd as an "extra" ship they had her inspected and measured. The EIC records describe her as a three-decker...
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list of ship launches in 1793 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1793. "Venetian Third Rate ship of the line 'Vulcano' (1793)". Threedecks...
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American Revolutionary War (section Loyalists)
attacked and robbed British merchant ships and raided and robbed coastal communities of Long Island reputed to have Loyalist sympathies. King George III feared...
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a French vessel launched under another name and taken in prize early in 1793 after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. She became a Liverpool...
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County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793 to 1806. He wrote one of the most important loyalist memoires of the war. He was born in Little Egg...
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seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The reasons...
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Philipsburg Proclamation). Approximately three thousand Black Loyalists were evacuated by ship to Nova Scotia between April and November 1783, traveling on...
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Marquis de Somerulas (or Marquis de Someruelas) was a United States merchant ship launched circa 1800, possibly at Charlestown, Boston. She survived an attack...
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HMS Bounty (category 1784 ships)
threats heard on both sides, the ship was taken bloodlessly and apparently without struggle by any of the loyalists except Bligh himself. Of the 42 men...
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seized control of the ship, and set the then Lieutenant Bligh, who was the ship's captain, and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The mutineers...
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Fletcher Christian (category 1793 deaths)
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, during which he seized command...
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HMS Agamemnon (1781) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
name. The future Lord Nelson served as Agamemnon's captain from January 1793 for three years and three months, during which time she saw considerable...
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Belle were second cousins. Belle lived there for 30 years. In his will of 1793, Lord Mansfield provided an outright sum and an annuity to her. Dido Elizabeth...
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Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (category United Empire Loyalists)
arrived Loyalists nearly crippled the government. As well, the cost of settling the Loyalists had plunged the colony into debt. As a Loyalist himself...
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any source, either Patriot or Loyalist. Cornwallis also attempted to reestablish civil authority under British or Loyalist oversight. Although these attempts...
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Benjamin Milliken (category United Empire Loyalists)
Bay died 1791 Bocabec, New Brunswick) was an American Loyalist, major landowner, mill and ship owner in Maine in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He...
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William Hamilton Merritt (redirect from William Hamilton Merritt (1793-1862))
in Westchester County, New York, on July 3, 1793. His father, Thomas, fought as a United Empire Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War. After the...
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HMS Asia (1764) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
arrest by the rebels if he remained in the city. Asia was the ship on which Tryon and Loyalist Mayor David Mathews devised a plot to assassinate George Washington...
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rebels, among whom was George Washington. In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston but instead was offered the command...
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Haitian Revolution (category 1793 in the Caribbean)
and military advisors. By August 1793, there were only 3,500 French soldiers on the island. On 20 September 1793, about 600 British soldiers from Jamaica...
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Neptune's trident and often sat or stood before the ocean and tall-masted ships representing British naval power. She also usually held or stood beside...
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