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    The 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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    situated near the center of the bay List of bays of South Africa Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781) Capitulation of Saldanha Bay Saldanha man West Coast National...
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  • Saldanha may refer to: Saldanha Bay, a bay in Western Cape Saldanha, Western Cape, a town on the bay Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, the unit of government...
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    Dankbaarheid (category Ships of the Dutch East India Company)
    to Batavia, the Dutch East Indies. In 1781 she was captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of Saldanha Bay. In 1782 she sank in a gale in the Indian...
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  • Honkoop (category Ships of the Dutch East India Company)
    the Dutch East Indies. The Royal Navy captured her in 1781 during the Battle of Saldanha Bay. In 1782 during a gale, the ship with up to 313 crew members...
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  • Middelburg (ship) (category Maritime incidents in 1781)
    13 June 1781. On 21 July 1781, as part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War during the Battle of Saldanha Bay the fleet was ambushed by a squadron of Royal Navy...
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  • Prize money (category History of the Royal Navy)
    Johnstone's secret mission to the Cape of Good Hope and the "Battle" of Saldanha Bay, 1781 (Part 2)". Fundamina. 22 (1): 118–157. Wilson, Evan; Hammar, AnnaSara;...
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  • Turjak – 1943 Battle of Nanos – 1942 Battle of Trieste Battle of Poljana – 1945 Battle of Caporetto – 1917 Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781) – 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch...
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    The Battle of Elmina was a significant engagement that transpired during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. In this military encounter, British forces undertook...
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    The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle that took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, contemporaneously related to the American...
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    Johnstone from attacking the colony. After capturing a number of VOC ships in the nearby Saldanha Bay, he returned to North Atlantic waters. Suffren had continued...
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    Sir Thomas Pasley, 1st Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain)
    the French at the Battle of Porto Praya under George Johnstone and capturing a Dutch squadron at the Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781). On both occasions...
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    Charles Brisbane (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806, and then in 1807 was in command at capture of the island of Curaçao...
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  • Republic, captured in Saldanha Bay 17 August 1796 by the British (M) Hercules 66 guns (1781) - captured by the British at the Battle of Camperdown (Camperduin)...
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  • This led to the Battle of Saldanha Bay in which a number of Dutch ships were seized. The Dutch colony however was not taken. Because of this, the squadron...
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    The action of 30 May 1781 was a naval battle fought between two frigates of the Royal Navy and two of the Dutch Republic off the Barbary Coast. In the...
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  • of HMS Echo. However, this notional command was simply to sail this battle damaged ship (which had helped to capture the Dutch fleet at Saldanha Bay)...
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    action of 4 February 1781 was a minor naval engagement that occurred on 4 February 1781 off Sombrero, Anguilla, between a British force of two ships of the...
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    George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    Cape of Good Hope Station. He had a large share in the capture of the Cape in 1795, and in August 1796 captured a whole Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay. In...
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    Elphinstone in Saldanha Bay and intimidated into surrendering without a fight. No further attacks on the Cape Colony were made during the course of the war....
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    Robben Island (category Suburbs of Cape Town)
    at the battle of Saldanha Bay in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1781, a boat rowed out to meet the British warships. On board were the "kings of Ternate...
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  • rear-admiral, commanding a squadron of the Batavian Navy, was forced to surrender that squadron on 17 August 1796 at Saldanha Bay (Cape Colony) to a Royal Navy...
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    Joachim van Plettenberg (category Governors of the Dutch Cape Colony)
    1781 Van Plettenberg sent five ships to Saldanha Bay and wait for French escort. In the Battle of Saldanha Bay four ships were taken prize and was destroyed...
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    The Battle of Porto Praya was a naval battle that took place during the American Revolutionary War on 16 April 1781 between a British squadron under Commodore...
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    Dutch West Indies campaign (category Conflicts in 1781)
    series of minor conflicts in 1781 and 1782, in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and the American Revolutionary War. Following Great Britain's declaration of war...
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  • Britain Action of 21 July 1781 - French victory over Great Britain Battle of Saldanha Bay 21 July - British victory over the Netherlands Battle of the House...
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    The Capture of Sint Eustatius took place in February 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War when British army and naval forces under Lieutenant-General...
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  • February she was again at Delagoa Bay, with seven whales. On 8 April she sailed for London from Saldanha Bay with 225 tuns of whale oil. Lloyd's List reported...
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    Essex (1780 EIC ship) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
    At the Cape, Johnstone captured five Dutch East Indiamen at the battle of Saldanha Bay. The British Indiamen then sailed on, directly, or indirectly, to...
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    ashore. Johnstone arrived in the morning of 21 July, left two frigates to watch the bay, and sailed on to Saldanha Bay. On 24 July, Suffren set sail with four...
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