HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable...

been named HMS Leopard after the leopard: HMS Leopard (1635) was a 34-gun ship launched in 1635 and captured by the Dutch in 1653. HMS Leopard (1659) was...

acquitted September 1, 1807 June 1807: Chesapeake-Leopard Affair: The British warship HMS Leopard (1790) captured and boarded the USS Chesapeake (1799)...

HMS Janus was the Dutch fifth-rate Argo, built at the dockyard of the Amsterdam Admiralty (Naval District), and launched in 1790. HMS Phoenix captured...

under Captain Lawrence William Halsted, the 50-gun HMS Leopard, Pegasus and the brig-sloop HMS Sylph, all under the overall command of Halsted. The...

become a pressing issue and Humphreys, by then in command of the 50-gun HMS Leopard, was ordered to intercept the USS Chesapeake, which was suspected to...

held at the National Archives in Kew. HMS Leopard (1790) 50-gun ship of the line HMS Martin (1790) 16-gun sloop HMS Minotaur (1793) 74-gun ship of the line...

had charge of her quarterdeck guns on the occasion of the battle with HMS Leopard on 22 June 1807. He was appointed an acting lieutenant and ordered to...

in command of HMS Thetis in the Mediterranean, receiving an honour from King Ferdinand of Sicily. In 1790 he was appointed to HMS Leopard, escorting a...

28-gun frigate HMS Carysfort at the rank of midshipman. He moved in June 1790 to take up a position aboard Captain Edward Pellew's 50-gun HMS Salisbury and...

what has become known as the Chesapeake–Leopard affair occurred when the Chesapeake was fired upon by HMS Leopard for refusing to comply with a demand to...

in quick succession command of a group of Sea Fencibles, then HMS Leopard, and finally HMS Colossus in 1804. In Colossus he served in the English Channel...

succession of commands, Heywood was promoted to post-captain. In command of HMS Leopard, Heywood conducted a series of surveys of the eastern coasts of Ceylon...

HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...

difficulties following a conflict between HMS Leopard and the US frigate Chesapeake (the Chesapeake–Leopard affair). Jackson remained at Washington until...

50 gun HMS Leopard, a command which ended in disaster, when he was deposed ashore during the Spithead mutiny. Moving to HMS Nassau and then HMS Intrepid...

Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...

command, Halsted was promoted to commander on 20 October 1790 and given command of the sloop HMS Atalanta. Halsted was at first engaged in surveying off...

INS Gomati in Lucknow, India (Planned) HMS President in London, England. HMS Wellington in London, England. HMS Ambuscade in Glasgow, Scotland (planned)...

rendered much service to the Spanish cause. In 1812 he visited Oran in HMS Leopard, and anchored off Algiers, observing American (including Jewish) slaves...

Navy took over the Provincial Marine in 1814 and so acquired Nancy. After HMS Nancy was blocked in by an American fleet near the mouth of the Nottawasaga...

in holding him, though Proteus took the forms of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, even of water or a tree. Proteus then answered truthfully, further...

Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...

later – sold August 1672 Léopard class. Two sisters of 28–30 guns built at Indret from 1640 to 1644 by Jean de Werf Léopard (1642) – delivered to the...

refused to submit it to the Senate for ratification. The British ship HMS Leopard fired upon the USS Chesapeake off the Virginia coast in June 1807. Jefferson...

appointed to the 32-gun fifth rate frigate HMS Daedalus, and on 14 July Daedalus, with HMS Leopard and HMS Orestes, sailed from England for the Cape of...

Plumridge sailed in the Navy Division, which included HMS Leopard, HMS Valorous, HMS Vulture and HMS Odin, to the Gulf of Bothnia with the task of destroying...

1758) 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams (AB, 1787; AM, 1790) Essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (AB, 1821)...

British imports. Tensions with Britain were heightened due to the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, a June 1807 naval confrontation between American and British naval...

Renown 50 (1774) – broken up 1794 Isis 50 (1774) – broken up 1810 Leopard 50 (1790) – wrecked 1814 near the Isle of Anacosti in the Saint Lawrence River...