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    Nicholas Pocock (2 March 1740 – 9 March 1821) was an English artist known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. Pocock...
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  • Innes Pocock, F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and...
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  • was eldest son of Nicholas Pocock of Falmouth and grandson of Nicholas Pocock the marine painter; Isaac Pocock and William Innes Pocock were his uncles...
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  • Canadian activist Nicholas Pocock (1740–1821), British artist Nicholas Pocock (historian) (1814–1897), English academic and cleric Nick Pocock (born 1951),...
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    The Battle of the Saintes between British and French fleets in 1782, by Nicholas Pocock...
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    Burnet, The history of the Reformation of the Church of England, ed. Nicholas Pocock, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1865, vol. V., pp. 250–151. Cited in: Roger...
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  • Tom Pocock's family included Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock, K.B. (who was the captor of Havana in the Seven Years' War), the marine painter Nicholas Pocock...
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    Dutch). Amsterdam; Antwerp: Arbeidspers. ISBN 978-90-295-3572-4. Rodger, Nicholas A.M. (2004). The Command of the Ocean, a Naval History of Britain 1649–1815...
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    In this painting of the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) by Nicholas Pocock, Royal Navy bomb vessels in the left foreground fire over the British and Danish...
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  • Innes Pocock (June 1783 – 13 March 1836) was a British Royal Navy lieutenant, artist and writer. Pocock was the second son of Nicholas Pocock, marine...
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     242–5. Goodwin. The Ships of Trafalgar. p. 19. Clayton. Trafalgar. p. 257. Pocock p.141 Duke Younge p.334 Clayton. Trafalgar. p. 301. James, Naval History...
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    several sketches of battle-damaged ships, sending them to Nicholas Pocock to be used for Pocock's large paintings of the battle. Temeraire was one of the...
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    2.2. "liguri, dialetti in "Enciclopedia dell'Italiano"". treccani.it. Nicholas, Nick. "How Greek were the Greeks of Corsica?" (PDF). tlg.uci.edu. Thesaurus...
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    1797–1799. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-906-9. Jordan, Gerald; Rogers, Nicholas (July 1989). "Admirals as Heroes: Patriotism and Liberty in Hanoverian...
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    (1863), p. 335. Fremont-Barnes (2005), p. 81 Fremont-Barnes (2005), p. 82 Pocock (2005), p. 175. Yonge (1863), p. 336. TB staff (2004) Adkin 2005, p. 524–529...
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    A 1784 painting of French ship of the line Saint-Esprit by Nicholas Pocock...
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    Office. Retrieved 9 October 2017. Pocock, p. 231 Roger. Pocock, p. 232 Pocock, p. 233 James (1837), Vol. 3, pp. 65–66 Pocock, p. 235 Clarke and McArthur, p...
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    frigate Aquilon as a reward. At the battle, Pegasus had as passenger Nicholas Pocock, the maritime artist. On 14 February 1795 the Channel fleet sailed...
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    p. 256 Hibbert 1994, p. 260 Hibbert 1994, p. 261 Knight 2005, p. 497. Pocock 1987, p. 237 Hibbert 1994, p. 263 Hibbert 1994, p. 264 "Report of the battle...
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    The Battle of Quiberon Bay by Nicholas Pocock. Howe took part in the battle as a captain. The overwhelming British victory at Quiberon Bay ended the prospect...
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  • mariner Sir Isaac Pocock (1751–1810) was his uncle. Isaac Pocock was born in Bristol on 2 March 1782, the eldest son of Nicholas Pocock, marine painter...
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    Buttersworth, and is visible at the Glorious First of June in works by Nicholas Pocock, Cornwallis's Retreat by William Anderson, and the Battles of the Nile...
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  • century, Whitcombe favoured a dark foreground. Whitcombe was, with Nicholas Pocock, Thomas Luny, Francis Holman and Robert Dodd, a leading maritime painter...
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    1719 the board established a new gun wharf on land leased from one Sir Nicholas Morice, immediately to the north of the established Dockyard. The Morice...
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    attack its opponent directly, without the need for complicated manoeuvre. Pocock had been an officer with the British Fleet at the Glorious First of June...
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    Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806 by Nicholas Pocock. HMS Agamemnon is visible in the background, third from left. History Great Britain...
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    today in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Nicholas Pocock later produced a celebrated painting of the battle, also now at Greenwich...
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    Jones, 1829 HMS Captain capturing the San Nicolas and the San Josef by Nicholas Pocock Nelson receiving the surrender of the San José by Daniel Orme, painted...
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  • Gibson, and Charles Vinicombe Penrose under initials as pseudonyms. Nicholas Pocock provided a long series of illustrations. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887)...
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    (right) battling the Royal George during the battle of Quiberon Bay. Nicholas Pocock, 1812. National Maritime Museum History Kingdom of France Namesake...
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