The Leeward Islands Station originally known as the Commander-in-Chief at Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands was a formation or command of the Kingdom...
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The Leeward Islands (/ˈliːwərd/) are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with...
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12.27; -69.08 The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean...
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command as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station and then as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands Station, leading the British fleet to victory at Battle...
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Islands Deafness in the Windward Islands Intra-Americas Sea Leeward Antilles Leeward Islands Lesser Antilles Lesser Antilles topics Leeward Islands topics...
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31 March 1775. In 1779, he served as Commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station during the American War of Independence. After being severely injured...
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The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden; Spanish: islas de Sotavento) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean, specifically part of the southerly...
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popular as flagships of admirals commanding the Windward and/or Leeward Islands station, which was usually a Rear-admiral of the red. Typically measuring...
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death of the flag officer commanding the Leeward Islands Station, he succeeded him as commodore. Island after island fell to him, and soon, outside Martinique...
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information. In 1778 Barrington became commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station. While in post he organised the construction of Fort Barrington...
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commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station. Within the first three months of 1762, Monckton and he had reduced the important island of Martinique, while...
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Islands also known as the Leeward Hawaiian Islands, are a series of islands and atolls located northwest of Kauai and Niʻihau in the Hawaiian island chain...
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became Viscount Exmouth. In 1805 Cochrane was made commander of the Leeward Islands Station. He conducted operations against the French and Spanish on 6 February...
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as the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief at Barbados and the Leeward Islands Station, succeeding Lord Hugh Seymour. Duckworth was nominated a Knight...
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distinguished herself as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Samuel Hood on the Leeward Islands station during the American War of Independence. Under Captain John Knight...
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He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands Station in 1763 and Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station in 1764. In 1765 he sailed to Belize at...
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British Leeward Islands. The seat of government was Bridgetown on Barbados, from 1871 to 1885, and thereafter St. George's on Grenada. The islands were not...
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The Leeward and Windward Islands and Trinidad. S. W. Silver & Co. 1880. West Jr., Richard S. (September 1942). "Barrington On The Leeward Station". Proceedings...
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Caribbean Sea, geographically forming part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean islands or West Indies. Geologically separated from...
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sailed to the Leeward Islands station and so it was some time before notification caught up with him. While on the Leeward Islands station, he shadowed...
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the end brought off safely. He became commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station in 1779. Parker was with his father at the Battle of Dogger Bank...
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Antipodes Islands Antipodes Island, Bollons Island, the Windward Islands, Orde Lees Island, Leeward Island, South Islet Auckland Islands Auckland Island, Adams...
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Antilles (redirect from Antillean islands)
Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The...
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Lesser Antilles (redirect from Lesser Antillean islands)
the Virgin Islands, swings southeast through the Leeward and Windward Islands towards South America, and turns westward through the Leeward Antilles along...
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and Indian War. He went on to become commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station, then Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and finally First...
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pennant and served for eight months as the Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands Station in 1802. In 1803, Stopford became captain of the ship of the line...
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Admiralty in 1790 and was appointed commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station in 1793. As rear admiral in November 1793, he was among the first...
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Campbell (1788–1856) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the Leeward Islands Station. Born the eldest son of Colin Campbell of Auchendoun, Argyll, Campbell...
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was a Royal Navy officer who became commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station. Swanton joined the Royal Navy on 8 September 1724 as a cadet....
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aboard various ships and as commodore and commander-in-chief on the Leeward Islands Station between 1787 and 1789. During the 1790s he served under Admiral...
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