The action of 21 July 1781 (French: Combat naval en vue de Louisbourg, or Combat naval à la hauteur de Louisbourg) was a naval skirmish off the harbour...
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Hermione off Île Royale at the action of 21 July 1781, but they were unable to take possession of her. In November 1781, the ship fell in with the privateer...
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French frigate Hermione (1779) (category Age of Sail frigates of France)
1781, and a major one in the action of 21 July 1781. Hermione grounded and was wrecked in 1793. In 1997, construction of a replica ship started in Rochefort...
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Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
fought at the action of 21 July 1781 as part of the American Revolutionary War. He is primarily remembered for his role in the Battle of Trafalgar. By...
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USS Boston (1777) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
Next, Charlestown took part in the action of 21 July 1781. She was one of five Royal Navy ships escorting a convoy of 13 colliers and merchant vessels....
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HMS Vulture (1776) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
crew of 120 men under the command of Samuel Davidson. The highpoint of Vulture's career occurred in the action of 21 July 1781. Vulture was one of three...
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Rupert George (category History of Nova Scotia)
commanded HMS Avenger. In 1781, he was the captain of HMS Vulture, where he fought in the action of 21 July 1781. On 12 August 1781, while commanding HMS...
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Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
Latouche was promoted to captain on 20 June 1781. In 1782, he was tasked with ferrying officials, large sums of money and equipment to America, leading a...
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French frigate Astrée (1780) (category Age of Sail frigates of France)
frigate of the French Navy. She served in the War of American Independence under Captain Lapérouse, notably taking part in the action of 21 July 1781 and...
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(1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781) Southern theater of the American Revolutionary...
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Fight 9–24 July - American victory over Great Britain Action of 21 July 1781 - French victory over Great Britain Battle of Saldanha Bay 21 July - British...
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1780) Battle of Blomindon (May 21, 1781) Action of 21 July 1781 (July 21, 1781) Raid on Annapolis Royal (August 29, 1781) Battle off Halifax (May 28, 1782...
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HMS Allegiance (1779) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
career occurred in the action of 21 July 1781. Allegiance was one of three Royal Navy ships and two armed vessels escorting a convoy of 13 unarmed merchant...
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Winckworth Tonge (category Canadian justices of the peace)
needed] namesake of Tonge's Island, Tantramar Marsh, New Brunswick His son Captain William Peter Tonge participated in the action of 21 July 1781 His son William...
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Vernon (1779 ship) (redirect from HMS Vernon (1781))
September 1781, Captain Hall, of the transport Vernon was at Cork, from where he wrote a letter with a report of the action of 21 July 1781 in which she...
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George baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
(1749–1823), commander in the action of 21 July 1781 Sir Rupert Dennis George, 2nd Baronet (1796–1856), provincial secretary of Nova Scotia "No. 16292". The...
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Battle of Saldanha Bay was a naval action that occurred off the Dutch Cape Colony on 21 July 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. A squadron of Royal...
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Henry Francis Evans (category 1781 deaths)
Captain Henry Francis Evans ( – 21 July 1781) was a British Royal Navy officer who fought with distinction in the American Revolutionary War. He fought...
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surrounding New Forest. The total cost of her construction was £38,303 15s 4d. She was commissioned on 28 March 1781 under Captain Benjamin Caldwell—a full...
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sovereign in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon...
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siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly...
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the night of 20 July had merely exposed his own previous lack of action and apparent failure to report the plot. Having been arrested on 21 July, Fromm was...
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Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between...
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Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. (A separate...
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its run. Set between 1781 and 1801, the plot follows the titular character on his return to Cornwall after the American War of Independence in 1783....
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ship of the line in the Royal Navy. She was built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 19 October 1781. She was present at the Battle of Cape...
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merchantman Sartine 1781, March 23 – British privateer Tarleton, of 14 guns, captures American letter of marque Tom Lee, of 12 guns. 1781, May 1 – HMS Canada...
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August 26, 2023. "LCV Action Fund Announces First Round of Congressional Endorsements". League of Conservation Voters. Retrieved July 27, 2023. Dison, Denis...
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August 26, 2023. "LCV Action Fund Announces First Round of Congressional Endorsements". League of Conservation Voters. Retrieved July 27, 2023. "NARAL Pro-Choice...
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listed in chronological order Abrams, Creighton W. (July 16, 2014). "The Yorktown Campaign, October 1781". National Museum, United States Army, Army Historical...
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