• The action of 15 September 1782 was a naval action in the mouth of the Delaware Bay in which four Royal Naval vessels under the command of George Elphinstone...
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    The action of 10 September 1782 was a minor engagement between five merchant vessels — four East Indiamen of the British East India Company and a country-ship...
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  • (1777–1782) Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War Modern history portal List of British Forces in the American Revolutionary War List of Continental...
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    Richard Goodwin Keats (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    By May 1782 he had been transferred to the command of the sloop HMS Bonetta. He was part of the squadron that in the action of 15 September 1782 captured...
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    Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    command of the frigate Aigle which, along with the Gloire, ferried funds and equipment for the fleet of Admiral de Vaudreuil. On 5 September 1782, the squadron...
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  • The action of 12 August 1782 was a minor single-ship action that opposed the French 32-gun frigate Bellone to the British 28-gun HMS Coventry in the run-up...
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  • Events from the year 1782 in the United States President of the Confederation Congress: John Hanson (until November 4), Elias Boudinot (starting November...
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    the lead ship of the Hermione class, a six-ship class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 September 1782 at Bristol....
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    shipping from the depredations of the Royal Navy in the context of the Anglo-French War. In the action of 4 September 1782, she was chased by the frigate...
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    related to 1782. 1782 (MDCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian...
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    The action of 30 September 1639 was a naval battle near Mormugão, just south of Goa, India, when a squadron of 9 Dutch ships captured and destroyed 3 Portuguese...
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    Caribbean between the British and the French that took place 9–12 April 1782. The British victory was considered their greatest over the French during...
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    29 June 1782. She moved to Deptford, Kent, to be fitted-out and have her hull covered with copper plates between 16 July and 25 October 1782; at her completion...
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    Richard Rundle Burges (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
    in the action of 18 October 1782 against the French ship Scipion. Burges was posted as commander on 7 December 1782. He commanded a series of ships with...
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    An action potential (also known as a nerve impulse or "spike" when in a neuron) is a series of quick changes in voltage across a cell membrane. An action...
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  • List of shipwrecks in 1782 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1782. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1331). 29 January 1782. "Shipwreck...
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  • the Siege of Yorktown in September 1781. On 30 April 1782, the War Office notified Sir Guy Carleton, Commander in Chief of British forces in North America...
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    symbols instead of Thai script. The Rattanakosin Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Siam after 1855, refers to the Siamese kingdom between 1782 and 1932....
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    the ethos of "the force of argument had been trumped by the argument of force". Irish republicanism an offspring of the Volunteers of 1782, owes much...
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    John Laurens (October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best...
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    British fleet under Admiral Richard Howe. These forces met on 20 October 1782 after Howe successfully resupplied Gibraltar, then under siege by Bourbon...
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    loss of the brand new frigate Hébé in the action of 4 September 1782 where Chevalier de Vigny was condemned to fifteen years in prison – the case of his...
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    A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there...
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    shipbuilder Thomas Raymond, of Northam, on 3 December 1779. She was laid down there in July 1780 and was launched on 30 March 1782. Mediator was then taken...
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    action of 5 September 1782, where she was damaged by the frigates Aigle and Gloire. Much damaged in this action and after suffering the 1782 Central Atlantic...
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    HMS London (1766) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781. In the action of 18 October 1782, she was raked by Scipion and had to let her escape. She participated in the Battle of Groix...
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    third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness. She participated in the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, the Battle of Trafalgar...
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    president, commonly known as the first lord of trade. The board was abolished on 11 July 1782, but a Committee of the Privy Council was established on 5 March...
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    Jr. (September 15, 1881 – March 28, 1944), was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I who received the Medal of Honor for actions during...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Phaeton (1782)
    Smallshaw (Smallshaw & Company) built Phaeton in Liverpool between 1780 and 1782. She participated in numerous engagements during the French Revolutionary...
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