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    HMS Wolf (or Wolfe) was a Merlin-class sloop launched at Dartmouth in 1804. She captured or destroyed four small Spanish or French privateers before she...
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  • Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf: HMS Woolf (1656) was a 16-gun ship, previously the Spanish...
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  • the French there. The Navy bought her in 1804 and converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS Coromandel she became a convict ship and...
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  • Pandour, but never commissioned her. In 1800 she was renamed HMS Wolf and was broken up in 1802. HMS Pandour was the Dutch 44-gun frigate Hector, launched in...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1804. 1804 (MDCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday...
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    in October 1804 and was subsequently taken into service with the Royal Navy. She was initially registered as HMS Iphigenia but renamed HMS Imperieuse...
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    John Gould (category 1804 births)
    John Gould FRS (/ɡuːld/; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced...
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    Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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    his naval successes led Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mers (the Sea Wolf). He was successful in virtually all of his naval actions. Cochrane was dismissed...
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  • HMS Spencer was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 May 1800 at Bucklers Hard. Her designer was the French émigré shipwright...
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    III. The Royal Marines Artillery (RMA) was formed as a separate unit in 1804 to man the artillery in bomb ketches. These had been manned by the Army's...
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  • Farmer (1842–1903), American author, women's rights activist Lydia Mary Fay (1804–1878), American missionary, educator, writer, and translator Lydia Rodríguez...
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    line and chasing off regular French warships in the Battle of Pulo Aura in 1804, and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sinking the Australian light cruiser...
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    captain to search for deserters from HMS Belleisle, HMS Bellona, HMS Triumph, HMS Chichester, HMS Halifax, and the cutter HMS Zenobia. Chesapeake was off the...
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    Donald. Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf. HMS Arab; Battle of the West Kay 1801, An account of the battle between HMS Arab and the Danish Brig Lougen; National...
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    Yuri Lisyansky; 1803–1806; the first Russian circumnavigation. John DeWolf; 1804–1808; circumnavigation by sea and land; first American to travel overland...
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    (born 1951) Sir Rudolph Walter Bentinck (1868–1947), Royal Navy admiral Wolf Walter Rudolph Bentinck (1903–1992) Vivian Mark Bentinck (born 1945) Alice...
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    least nine Royal Navy warships since 1744 – both as HMS Achilles and with the French spelling HMS Achille. A 60-gun ship of that name served at the Battle...
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    Thomas Jefferson (category Candidates in the 1804 United States presidential election)
    presidential election, Jefferson again challenged Adams, and won the presidency. In 1804, Jefferson was reelected overwhelmingly to a second term. As president, Jefferson...
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    Europe, although several of the larger mammals such as the lynx, brown bear, wolf, elk and walrus were hunted to extinction in historic times. There are important...
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    population several times. There were 37 famine years in Iceland between 1500 and 1804. The first census was carried out in 1703 and revealed that the population...
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  • queen in Norse mythology DMP · 351 352 Gisela 1893 B Gisela Wolf, wife of the discoverer, Max Wolf (1863–1932) DMP · 352 353 Ruperto-Carola 1893 F Ruprecht...
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    region between 1790 and 1818, a permanent settlement was established in 1804 at "Novo-Arkhangelsk" (New Archangel, today's Sitka, Alaska), and a thriving...
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    to build the greatest collection of birds in the world 1804 Bewick's British Birds: see 1797 1804– 1806 – Lewis and Clark Expedition. This was the first...
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    command of HMS Canada, HMS Powerful, HMS Invincible and HMS Formidable. In 1796, he was promoted to rear-admiral and raised his flag on HMS Prince. In...
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    19 August 1915, the German submarine U-27 was sunk by the British Q-ship HMS Baralong. All German survivors were summarily executed by Baralong's crew...
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  • Gotha. In the time of the duke Ernst II von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1745–1804) and the astronomer F. X. von Zach, it was an important center for astronomy...
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    the model during a voyage to China and Sumatra from June 1802 to August 1804. The replica's color scheme was taken from an 1805 painting of the ship by...
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    Creek, Oakville. S.M. Douglas A former White Star dredger. HMS Speedy  Royal Navy 8 October 1804 A schooner that sank off Brighton, Lake Ontario. 43°48′50″N...
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  • Abdication. 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near...
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