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  • Sir William Douglas was a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people, acquired by British interests in 1801. She made one complete voyage transporting...
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  • Douglas (politician), unionist activist from Northern Ireland William Douglas Campbell, lobbyist and FBI informant Sir William Douglas, a slave ship (1801–1803)...
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    Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby KB (7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general...
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    Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, in command of Glatton, a 56-gun ship of the line, which was experimentally fitted exclusively...
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  • Commons.) Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet, MP 1801–20, and son George Dashwood, MP 1814–18. Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet, MP 1801–24, and son Sir Charles...
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    numerous French merchant ships trading with American ports. For a time he blockaded the French frigate Sémillante, but by 1801 had sailed for the West...
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    Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first...
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    Sir James Douglas, KCB (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877) was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British...
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    or drove ashore 53 ships before three French ships of the line under Admiral Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him on 3 July 1801. While Cochrane was...
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    HMS Foudroyant (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    boys. Her designer was Sir John Henslow. She was named after the 80-gun Foudroyant, which Swiftsure and Monmouth, both 70-gun ships, and Hampton Court (64...
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    difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England; and I have lately, with Sir William Hamilton, got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without...
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    ministers who shared a birth year, the others being: William Pitt the Younger (served 1783–1801 and 1804–1806) and Lord Grenville (served 1806–1807),...
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  • Pechell worked with Sir Howard Douglas and Sir William Bowles to establish HMS Excellent, the Royal Navy's first gunnery training ship. He was also involved...
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    Sir George Charles Vincent (1900). Ancient and Modern Ships Part I. London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 93, 95. Retrieved 29 May 2022. Dalrymple, William (2021)...
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  • Calcutta in August 1799, he assumed command, on 12 March 1801, of the Alkmaar, 50 guns; in which ship he remained, until September 1802, employed on the Home...
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    initiative led the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, to resign. During the War of the Second Coalition (1799–1801), Britain occupied most of the French...
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    (1757–1760) Commodore Sir James Douglas, (1760–1761) Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, (1761–1763) Rear-Admiral Sir William Burnaby, (1763) Rear-Admiral...
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    the British Army, present on board HM's ships at qualifying actions. This included 26 with the 'Copenhagen 1801' clasp and 50 with the 'Syria' clasp. Of...
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    Robert Peel (redirect from Sir Robert Peel)
    Douglas (2007). Robert Peel: A Biography. Orion. ISBN 9781780225968. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2019. Ramsay, Sir...
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    captained HMS Ajax in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Egyptian operation of 1801. Cochrane was knighted into the Order of the Bath for his services in 1806...
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