morethannelson - Richard Hiscocks

I'm Richard Hiscocks - author at the morethannelson website - A Biographical History and Chronicle of the Royal Navy 1776-1815.

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OK - Naval History may not be up everyone's alley, so periodically I'll post links to articles or biographies which the non-anoraks might find interesting, and in so doing I'll surreptitiously try to lure them in.....

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@Hindu_Stan I agree, I think he was a major loon, but Tbf he is great fun to write about. 😃

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In May 1798, the ever-impetuous Captain Sir Richard Strachan’s immoderate reaction to a perceived snub from the French commandant at Le Havre saw his frigate carried into the River Seine and placed at peril from the enemy’s batteries and gunboats.
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@TDGNavalHistory Here you go - it's passed Mr Martinovich's scrupulous edit so I'm happy with it! Best of luck with your work!
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@Empireaesth @DockYardWall If one wants to know more……. https://t.co/sHljRemaeD

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A protégé of famed frigate captain Sir Edward Pellew, the fearless Captain Jeremiah Coghlan (1775-1844) performed astonishing feats of bravery throughout his career as he rose to become a post captain. #Cork
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Captain Sir John Collins (c1734-94) saw extensive service throughout the American Revolutionary War, and near the end was knighted for his capture of a French ship of the line. He died at sea in the early stages of the French Revolutionary War.
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In June 1798, the British frigate Seahorse easily captured the weaker French frigate Sensible in the Mediterranean, and revealed the first clear intelligence about the destination of General Bonaparte's huge expedition that had set out from Toulon.
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Captain Henry Mowat (1734-98) was an officer with an unparalleled knowledge of the New England coast as a result of a decade of survey work. He later became a key participant in the opening moves of the American Revolutionary War.
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The brilliant Captain Josias Rogers (1755-95) survived being taken prisoner 3 times in the American Revolutionary War and performed outstanding service in the early years of the French Revolutionary War before losing his life to yellow fever. #lymington
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From a notable naval family, Rear-Admiral Joseph Peyton (1750-1816) of Wakehurst Place in Sussex was far less successful than his father and brothers; instead, he became renowned for a notorious affair and a lack of financial probity. @wakehurstplace
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My favourite Lord St. Vincent anecdote - When a new arrival to his fleet came riddled with fever due to poor hygiene, St. Vincent devised a novel punishment to remind the officers of their responsibilities towards the men’s welfare.
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@theknightirish I want that book!

[Gianluca Damiani @GianlucaDamia14]

Just generated with ChatGPT, this image looks almost perfect to me. Especially the uniform details, which ChatGPT was very bad at reproducing a few times ago. Very bad. I am honestly Impressed.

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We have clear pictures of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon I... The photograph was taken by the notable Paris studio Mayer & Pierson. 

Photography arrived just in time to capture the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte’s family. While Napoleon himself died in 1821, before practical photography, several of his siblings lived into the era of early photographic portraiture. This makes members of the Bonaparte family among the earliest major historical figures to exist both in painted portraits and in photographs.

The most commonly photographed brother was Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860), the youngest of the siblings and briefly King of Westphalia (1807-1813) under Napoleon’s reorganization of Europe. After the fall of the Napoleonic Empire in 1815, Jérôme returned to France and later held military and political roles under subsequent regimes, including the Second Empire of his nephew, Napoleon III.

Early photographic processes such as daguerreotypes (introduced in 1839) and later albumen prints allowed for surprisingly detailed images, though exposure times were long and subjects often appear rigid.

Jérôme’s American-born son, Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, was a great-great-grandnephew of Napoleon and even served briefly in the French military, illustrating how the Bonaparte legacy extended well beyond the emperor’s lifetime.

© History Pictures

#archaeohistories

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@Trois_Ponts @MilHistNow 1694?

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@Hindu_Stan Still doesn’t beat Skeffington Lutwidge though

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Born to a humble Irish family from County Kerry, after rejecting the priesthood, Sylverius Moriarty (1735-1809) suffered capture, fever and shipwreck in the American Revolutionary War before retiring to Cork as an admiral in the British Navy. #cork
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In May 1798 a mis-matched engagement between the British frigate Hydra 38 and the French frigate Confiante 36 saw the latter driven ashore – she was later burned under fire by the Hydra’s lieutenants.
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One of 3 brothers who became admirals, John Osborn (c1749-1820) had to wait until his 40's before being posted captain. His subsequent service was almost exclusively in East Indian waters, and he retired ashore in the early years of the Napoleonic War.
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