Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy commander who saw service against the French during...

in 1866 as a handheld version of the optical telegraph system of Home Riggs Popham used on land, and its later improvement by Charles Pasley. The land...

William Pitt, Lord Henry Melville, Francisco de Miranda and Sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham did not believe a complete military occupation of South America...

Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1853 George Popham (1550–1608), pioneering colonist in Maine born in Somerset, England Home Riggs...

Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), who developed the Signal Code adopted by the Navy in 1803. Penelope Popham; Elinor Popham; Elizabeth Popham (d.1637)...

police administration. Popham was born on 5 July 1745, the fourth son of Joseph Popham of Gibraltar and Mary Riggs. Popham's younger brother was the...

vessels under the command of Cmdre. Home Riggs Popham, assembled from two fleets out of Cork and Falmouth. Popham took the 64-gun HMS Diadem as his flagship...

South America, then an ally of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Home Riggs Popham had orchestrated an expedition against South America without the British...

Middleton Oct 1806 Richard Wilson Whig Robert Stopford Whig May 1807 Sir Home Riggs Popham Tory Robert Alexander Crickitt Tory Oct 1812 John Round Tory Jul 1818...

Etrusco was launched in 1789 at Rhode Island as President Washington. Home Riggs Popham purchased her at Calcutta and transferred to her the name and papers...

in the Chunar Fort. A small armed force was collected under Major Home Riggs Popham and Chait Singh was eventually evicted from his control of neighboring...

and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy...

Napoleon. Home Riggs Popham was commissioned by prime minister Pitt in 1805 to study the plans proposed by Miranda to the British Government, Popham then persuaded...

unprotected. Grey put forward the plan on the recommendation of Captain Home Riggs Popham of the Royal Navy, who suggested that an amphibious landing be made...

tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command of Home Riggs Popham and William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were...

Prince of Wales 98 (flag of Admiral James Gambier, 1st Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham, 2nd Captain Adam Mackenzie) Pompee 74 (Vice-Admiral Henry Edwyn Stanhope...

part of the expedition under General Sir David Baird and Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham that would in 1806 capture the Dutch Cape Colony. On 11 March she...

surrender of the colony. The naval commander of the expedition, Admiral Home Riggs Popham then conceived the idea of occupying the Spanish Plate River colonies...

to deploy in Northern Spain under the command of the squadron of Home Riggs Popham. The battalion disembarked at Zumaia on 18 August, and joined up with...

design is a reference to 1803 maritime communications by Rear Admiral Home Riggs Popham, the symbol on the flag meaning "I can spare what you asked for"....

regular regiments. While a British transport fleet under Admiral Home Riggs Popham sailed to Reval to collect the Russian contingent, the mustering of...

Auchmuty's troops to Buenos Aires, where he would relieve Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, who, with troops under William Carr Beresford, had captured Buenos...

in 1831. On April 20, 1796, he married Maria Louisa Popham, niece of Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, at St. Mary's in Fort St. George. They had two sons...

but successful campaigns; the Cape was invaded and captured by Sir Home Riggs Popham in January 1806 and the island of Java by Sir Edward Pellew in a campaign...

taking the Dutch colony. The lists below are those that Commodore Home Riggs Popham provided to William Marsden, First Secretary of the Admiralty. These...

or sending in a fleet of fireships. On 20 July 1804 Pitt and Sir Home Riggs Popham met with American inventor Robert Fulton. Fulton had been working...

Retrieved 16 June 2016. "Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013...

be discovered, Strachan was to join the squadron under Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham detailed to invade the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. During...

colonies in South America (Spain was allied to France in the war). Home Riggs Popham attempted to invade Buenos Aires, without official orders. June 23...

Robert Stopford Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1807–1820 With: Home Riggs Popham John Round William Newton Succeeded by William Haldimand and Thomas...