HMS Blenheim was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Israel Pownoll and launched on 5 July 1761 at Woolwich. In 1797 she...
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1763. HMS Blenheim (1761) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1761, reduced to a third rate in 1800 and wrecked in 1807. HMS Blenheim was the name the Navy...
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Launched: 21 April 1761 Fate: Sold out of the service, 1793 HMS Blenheim Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 12 November 1755 Launched: 5 July 1761 Fate: Wrecked...
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Woolwich HMS Boreas (1757) 28-gun frigate launched at Woolwich HMS Rippon (1758) 60-gun ship of the line launched at Woolwich HMS Blenheim (1761) 90-gun...
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Keppel became first lord of the admiralty. He was then appointed to HMS Blenheim of 90 guns, and commanded her during the year in the Grand Fleet under...
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Years' War. He went on to be commanding officer of the second-rate HMS Blenheim in July 1761. Appointed a commodore, he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore...
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aboard HMS Buckingham. With Everitt, Phillip also served on HMS Union and HMS Stirling Castle. Phillip was promoted to lieutenant on 7 June 1761, before...
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Thomas Griffin (Royal Navy officer) (category British MPs 1754–1761)
as third lieutenant of HMS Orford. He was given command of HMS Shoreham in 1731, HMS Blenheim in 1735, HMS Oxford in 1738 and HMS Princess Caroline in 1739...
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Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois (category 1761 births)
encountered a convoy of ten east indiamen, accompanied by the 90-gun HMS Blenheim. Linois sent Brunswick to Ile de France and, with his remaining ships...
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broken up 1810 Blenheim 90 (1761) – reduced to 74 in 1800; foundered, presumably off Madagascar, with all hands 1807 Ocean 90 (1761) – Modified version...
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Richard Bowen (Royal Navy officer) (category 1761 births)
aboard HMS Pegase, the ship he had helped to capture in 1782. From there he was moved to the 98-gun HMS Blenheim and in late 1783 to the 50-gun HMS Adamant...
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Ness. August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene...
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the presence of an admiral on board. This ship was HMS Blenheim, a ship of the line built in 1761 as a 90-gun second rate but recently cut down to 74...
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unknown; the son, also called William, likely drowned off Madagascar when HMS Blenheim sank or foundered in February 1807. Caroline von Linsingen, whose father...
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27 September 2008. Butchers, Bob (2008). Silks, Soaks and Certainties. Blenheim Press Limited. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-906302-04-7. "Sandbach Directory". sandbach...
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instead it joined Marlborough's army in Flanders in 1704. Too late for the Blenheim campaign, it fought at the Battle of Ramillies in May 1706 and the Siege...
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Ness. August 13 (August 2 OS) – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene...
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List of battles 1601–1800 (section 1761)
8 August – Swedish victory over Saxony and Poland-Lithuania. Battle of Blenheim 14 August – Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavarian forces during...
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Edmund Street (1824–1881) John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), Baroque architect (Blenheim Palace) Derek Walker (1929–2015) Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) (Natural...
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Chippenham 1701–1705 and 1705–1708, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. George Clarke, MP for Winchelsea 1702–1705, East Looe 1705–1708...
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artifact or reproduction. Losses by flood and wind damage include: The Old Blenheim Bridge, built-in 1855 and the longest-surviving covered bridge in the United...
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Battle of Langensalza (1761) – 1761 – Seven Years' War Siege of Cassel (1761) – 1761 – Seven Years' War Battle of Grünberg – 1761 – Seven Years' War Battle...
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killed and sixty-two wounded. The regiment then fought at the Battle of Blenheim in July, where it saw additional duty the following night guarding some...
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painter to be knighted. His best-known work is at Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and the cupola of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London. His drawings show...
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ship that operated during World War II. She was named for Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), an American politician, diplomat, ethnologist, and linguist who served...
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Kaiserswerth in 1702, the siege of Venlo later that year and the Battle of Blenheim in August 1704. It went on to fight at the Battle of Ramillies in May 1706...
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the 1701 to 1714 War of the Spanish Succession, the regiment fought at Blenheim in August 1704, Ramillies in May 1706, and Malplaquet in September 1709...
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based on Luther's 1524 Christmas hymn. China expels foreign missionaries. Blenheim Palace construction is completed in England. It is presented as a gift...
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Capture of the "Somers" and "Ohio", a provincial marker). Yet two days later, HMS Nancy was attacked in an engagement that involved three US warships (Battle...
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a captain in the Scots royals, from wounds received at the Battle of Blenheim. In 1705, Forbes was second lieutenant of the frigate Triton, one of the...
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