The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line...
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The Battle of San Domingo was the last fleet engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, contested off the Southern coast of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General...
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HMS Superb (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Battle of San Domingo, (the last fleet battle of the age of sail on the open sea) in which the English destroyed or captured nearly the entirety of the...
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Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
the Battle of San Domingo, the last great fleet action of the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, Duckworth was one of five sons of Sarah...
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Richard Goodwin Keats (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
Santo Domingo. Duckworth took his squadron of seven line-of-battle ships and attacked Leissègues' five ships of the line. The Battle of San Domingo was...
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ship of the Royal Navy has borne the name HMS San Domingo, after the Battle of San Domingo, whilst another was planned but never completed: HMS San Domingo (1809)...
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San Domingo is one of the former names of Hispaniola. San Domingo may also refer to: San Domingo (film), a 1970 West German drama film Santo Domingo Rebellion...
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Thomas Louis (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
at the Battle of the Nile. Later, he was second in command at the Battle of San Domingo, for which service he was made a baronet. Louis died of an unknown...
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Francis Austen (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
Battle of San Domingo, leading the lee line of ships into the battle. He later commanded the third-rate HMS St Albans and observed the Battle of Vimeiro...
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HMS Canopus (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
fleet at the Battle of San Domingo, and remained with him during the attempt to force the Dardanelles, and the operations in support of the Alexandria...
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HMS Northumberland (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Battle of San Domingo (1806), where she was damaged, and suffered 21 killed and 74 wounded, the highest casualties of any British ship in the battle.[citation...
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HMS Agamemnon (1781) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
French fleet carrying troops to Santo Domingo. On 6 February 1806, the two squadrons clashed in the Battle of San Domingo; Agamemnon assisted Duckworth's flagship...
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Leissègues was less successful and was discovered and destroyed at the Battle of San Domingo in February 1806 by a combined force under Duckworth and Rear-Admiral...
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Corentin Urbain de Leissègues (category Commanders of the Order of Saint Louis)
known for commanding the French fleet which was defeated at the Battle of San Domingo in 1806. Leissègues joined the Navy in 1778, at age 20. He served...
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Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known...
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John Jamison (category Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 aboard the Agamemnon. In 1806, he saw further action at the Battle of San Domingo on the same vessel which...
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The following is an incomplete list of famous French naval battles from the Middle Ages to modern France....
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in the Battle of San Domingo in February 1806. Duguay-Trouin 74 (launched 25 March 1800 at Rochefort) – Captured by the British in the Battle of Cape Ortegal...
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were dictated by the use of intelligence include: The Battle of Waterloo, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Salamanca, and the Battle of Vitoria. A major exception...
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George Seymour (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
John Duckworth at the Battle of San Domingo during the Napoleonic Wars. He also commanded the sloop HMS Kingfisher at the blockade of Rochefort and the fifth-rate...
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participated in the Battle of San Domingo. Magicienne was built to a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb at Toulon. She was the first of 12 vessels built...
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intercepted by a British squadron at the Battle of San Domingo and destroyed, losing all five of its ships of the line. The second French squadron, under...
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Alexander Cochrane (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of 1812)
February 1806 at the Battle of San Domingo during the Napoleonic Wars. A cannonball blew his hat off his head while he was on the deck of his flagship, HMS Northumberland...
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Louis baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
April 1806 to reward the service of Admiral Thomas Louis at the Battle of San Domingo in 1806. It passed to his son John Louis, later an admiral himself...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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Adam Mackenzie (category Year of birth unknown)
two, and had a crew of 18 men. Magicienne also formed part of the squadron under Sir John T. Duckworth at the Battle of San Domingo on 6 February 1806...
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HMS Acasta (1797) (category War of 1812 ships of the United Kingdom)
of 1812. Although she never took part in any notable single-ship actions nor saw action in a major battle though she was at the Battle of San Domingo...
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Nathaniel Day Cochrane (category Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
seniority of 26 March 1806, on his return to England with the news of the Battle of San Domingo (which his uncle Admiral Alexander Cochrane had fought in.) He...
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campaign, following the Battle of San Domingo the previous month. Willaumez eventually returned to France, although without many of his squadron who were...
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list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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