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    The Frederica naval action was a naval battle during the American Revolutionary War in which three galleys of the Georgia State Navy captured a British...
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  • Frederica, a historic American fort Frederica naval action, a small naval battle during the American Revolutionary War Frederica Bernkastel, a character in the...
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    waters over ships designed for the open sea. The victory in the Frederica Naval Action boosted the morale of the colonials in Georgia. During the plantation...
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    1778 April 19 Frederica Naval Action 27 July First Ushant – British under Keppel with 30 ships of the line fight inconclusive action against French under...
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  • the 20-gun HMS Galatea. He fought at the Frederica naval action in 1778, in overall command of British naval forces there. His ship was the only not to...
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  • in service in 1778 that the Americans captured that year at the Frederica naval action. HMS Hinchinbrook (1778) was a 28-gun sixth rate, previously the...
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  • March Frederica naval action 19 April - American victory Battle off Liverpool, Nova Scotia 24 April - British defeat French raid North Channel Naval Duel...
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  • An American naval squadron led by Samuel Elbert attacked the ship near St. Simons Island in what became known as the Frederica naval action. Although the...
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    Historical Quarterly. XC. Savannah, Georgia: Georgia Historical Society. Frederica Naval Action[permanent dead link‍] Biography in The New Georgia Encyclopedia...
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    army's flank. The Georgia State Navy's greatest success was the Frederica naval action on 19 April 1778. Washington, Lee, Bulloch, and other some boats...
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  • 1778 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1778. "Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 11 AMERICAN THEATRE: Jan. 1...
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    protected the army's flank. The galleys' greatest success was the Frederica naval action on 19 April 1778. Washington, Lee, Bulloch, and some boats captured...
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    before Paul and Frederica moved in. The government gave Frederica a small farm in Polydendri, near the town of Larissa in Thessaly. Frederica soon became...
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    Rear-Admiral Sir John Lindsay KB (1737 – 4 June 1788) was a British naval officer of the 18th century, who achieved the rank of rear admiral late in his...
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    March 14, 1862, at the age of 13. Later that year, his daughter Emily Frederica died at age 10 on October 14. Six days later, his youngest daughter Maria...
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    Victor Crutchley (category People educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne)
    Chelsea, London, the only son of Percy Edward (1855–1940) and the Hon. Frederica Louisa (1864–1932), second daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton...
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    to 20 September 1866. The only child of King Ernest Augustus and Queen Frederica, he succeeded his father in 1851. George's reign was ended by the Austro-Prussian...
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    born in Athens as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica of Greece. Being of Danish descent, he was also born as a prince of Denmark...
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    Province of Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia, as Princess Sophia Augusta Frederica (Sophie Auguste Friederike) von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg. Her mother was...
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    Liddell, daughter of The Hon. Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavious Liddell and Frederica Elizabeth Lane Fox.[citation needed] He married Gwendolen Peek in 1918...
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    Carriden House near Bo'ness, on 9 June 1881. On 16 August 1838 Hope married Frederica Kinnaird, daughter of Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird. After his first...
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  • three of them that were anchored near Fort Frederica, a relic of the 1740s War of Jenkins' Ear. In a naval action on April 19, Elbert and the row galleys...
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    the result of doubt among naval authorities that heavier guns could physically be mounted on a ship's broadside. No action was taken on this request until...
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    government of something like thirty per cent.” He married Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie, eldest daughter and heiress of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron...
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    influence north of Florida. Farther to the north are the ruins of Fort Frederica, established by Gen. James Oglethorpe in 1736 as protection for the Georgia...
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    much to alienate itself from other great powers by initiating a massive naval build-up, contesting French control of Morocco, and building a railway through...
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    Prince Michael of Kent (category Royal Naval Reserve personnel)
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom the Duke of Kent stood proxy); Frederica of Hanover, Hereditary Princess of Greece (his first cousin once removed...
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    of alliance with the United States. The French fleet outran the British naval blockade of the Mediterranean and sailed to America. The conflict now affected...
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    Bombardment of Algiers (1816) (category Naval battles involving the United Kingdom)
    Dutch frigates: HNLMS Melampus (ex HMS Melampus), Diana (ex HMS Diana), Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Dageraad, Amstel and the corvette Eendracht, led by...
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    Edward VIII (category People educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne)
    17-year-old daughter, Frederica of Hanover, who was at boarding school in England. Her parents refused, due to the age gap, and Frederica instead married Paul...
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