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    HMS Augusta was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 October 1763 at Rotherhithe. After running aground in the Delaware...
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  • weather. HMS Augusta (1736) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1736 and broken up by 1765. HMS Augusta (1763) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1763 and...
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  • renamed Augusta, then broken up in 1771. HMS Charlotte (1763), a cutter of 4 guns purchased in February 1763. She was sold on 14 November 1770. HMS Charlotte...
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    the first lieutenant of the 14-gun sloop HMS Fortune. War with France was drawing to a close, and by January 1763 negotiations were well advanced for the...
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    Africa prior to being paid off at Chatham in February 1763. Reynolds was the commander aboard HMS Augusta, a ship of the line bearing 64 guns, which was part...
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  • class. HMS St Albans Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard, London Ordered: 13 January 1761 Launched: 12 September 1764 Fate: Broken up, 1814 HMS Augusta Builder:...
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    was moved into HMS Temple, from which in March he was superseded. He afterwards commanded the frigate HMS Milford, till the peace of 1763. During the following...
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    midshipman on HMS Tavistock and HMS Speedwell He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1750, joining HMS Otter in Barbados. and commanding HMS Lively with...
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    transferred to HMS Augusta as third lieutenant. Her first lieutenant was George Johnstone, who would also figure in the history of West Florida. Augusta's captain...
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    line HMS Kent (1762) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Albion (1763) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Lurcher (1763) 6-gun cutter HMS Kite (1764) 4-gun cutter HMS Monarch (1765)...
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    grandfather, George II, he was 22 years old and unmarried. His mother, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and his advisors were eager to have him settled in marriage...
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    the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made...
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    in North America with victory over the French in the Seven Years' War in 1763, tensions and disputes arose between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies...
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    February 1813 – The French frigate Aréthuse (1812) and the British ship HMS Amelia (1796) engage in battle in the Îles de Los on the Guinea Coast; both...
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    policies of the British under Amherst (April 25, 1763 – July 25, 1766) King George's Royal Proclamation of 1763 establishes administration in territories newly...
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  • illegitimate son of Sir George Vandeput, 2nd Baronet. He was a midshipman on board HMS Neptune (the flagship of Sir Charles Saunders, stationed in the St Lawrence...
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    Commodore Lisle in command of a fleet of several ships, including HMS Vigilant, 64 guns, and HMS Ruby, 50 guns. Again, in February 1754, he attacked three Dutch...
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    and Augusta d'Este (later Baroness Truro). George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (30 April 1762 – 11 November 1836) Hon. William Murray (22 August 1763 – 27...
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    Kingdom and the second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. The young prince was baptised Edward Augustus, at Norfolk...
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    Rule, Britannia! (category Princess Augusta of Great Britain)
    version is taken from The Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, Published 1763, Vol II, p. 191, which includes the entire text of Alfred. When Britain first...
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    (1764) – broken up 1814 Augusta 64 (1763) – burnt 1777 Director 64 (1784) – broken up 1801 Exeter class (Bately) Exeter 64 (1763) – burnt 1784 Europa 64...
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    Press. Schroeder, Paul W. (1996). The Transformation of European Politics 1763–1848. Oxford U.P. pp. 177–560. ISBN 978-0-1982-0654-5. Archived from the...
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    were influenced by exploration accounts of Le Page du Pratz in Louisiana (1763) and James Cook in the Pacific (1784), and they persuaded Congress in 1804...
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    Soubise – captured by the British Navy off Lisbon in April 1666, becoming HMS French Victory. Fleur de Lys, 30 guns, design by Georges Carteret, launched...
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    forces during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During the action, his ship HMS Bellerophon was badly damaged and boarded by sailors and marines from the...
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  • Richard; Stephenson, Wendell Holmes (1976). The South in the revolution: 1763 - 1789. A history of the South : [in eleven volumes] / eds. Wendell Holmes...
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    George Mathews (soldier) (category People from Augusta County, Virginia)
    share" of the trade in the region. Mathews was elected to the Augusta Parish vestry in 1763, joining his brother Sampson who had been a member since 1761...
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    Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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    Leineschloss, Hanover son of King George II and Queen Caroline Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha 17 April 1736 9 children 31 March 1751 Leicester House, Leicester...
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    hardworking and successful, and was able to rapidly expand his business. In 1763, he repaid money that he had borrowed from the Lathrops, repurchased the...
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