The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit: Containing Complete and Impartial Accounts of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, But More Particularly of Those who Have Signalized Themselves in America. In Four Volumes. Embellished with a Number of Portraits of the Most Distinguished Characters, Engraved from Original Drawings, 3-4. kötetJohnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1802 |
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67. oldal
... admirals of the British navy , was the second son of Sir Emanuel Scrope , the second Lord Viscount Howe and baron Clenawley , in Ireland . He was born in 1725 , and lost his father when he was only two years of age . He was , for some ...
... admirals of the British navy , was the second son of Sir Emanuel Scrope , the second Lord Viscount Howe and baron Clenawley , in Ireland . He was born in 1725 , and lost his father when he was only two years of age . He was , for some ...
68. oldal
... admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet , under the command of commodore Knowles , to attempt the town of La Guira , on the coast of Caraccas . The Burford suffered much in this enterprize , and the captain having lost his thigh by a chain ...
... admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet , under the command of commodore Knowles , to attempt the town of La Guira , on the coast of Caraccas . The Burford suffered much in this enterprize , and the captain having lost his thigh by a chain ...
69. oldal
... Admiral Knowles , in Jamaica , who appointed him first captain of his ship of eighty guns : and at the conclusion of the war , in 1748 , he returned in her to England . In March , 1751 , Captain Howe was appointed to the command of the ...
... Admiral Knowles , in Jamaica , who appointed him first captain of his ship of eighty guns : and at the conclusion of the war , in 1748 , he returned in her to England . In March , 1751 , Captain Howe was appointed to the command of the ...
71. oldal
... admiral of the blue , and commander in chief of the Mediterranean . In March , 1775 , he was ap- pointed rear admiral of the white , and was soon after elected a member of parliament . In the month of December , of the same year , he ...
... admiral of the blue , and commander in chief of the Mediterranean . In March , 1775 , he was ap- pointed rear admiral of the white , and was soon after elected a member of parliament . In the month of December , of the same year , he ...
72. oldal
... admiral , Count D'Estaing appeared on the 11th of July , in sight of the British fleet at Sandy Hook , with a considerable force of line of battle ships , in complete equipment and condition . Most of the ships under Lord Howe had been ...
... admiral , Count D'Estaing appeared on the 11th of July , in sight of the British fleet at Sandy Hook , with a considerable force of line of battle ships , in complete equipment and condition . Most of the ships under Lord Howe had been ...
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