Papers of Evan Nepean, 1803.
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Nepean, Evan, Sir, 1751-1822
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Secretary to the Admiralty in 1788. From the description of Autograph letter signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610549 English administrator. From the description of Autograph letters signed (8) and an autograph list of dispatches received : Whitehall, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1793 Aug. 6-1793 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611575 Epithet: Incumbent of Grosvenor Chapel, London; 4th son of Sir Evan Nepean Britis...
France. Marine
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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Henri-Hector d'Estaing was born in Ravel, France, on November 24, 1729, the son of Charles-François d'Estaing, the Marquis de Salliant, and Marie-Henriette Colbert de Maulevrier. He served as a military officer during the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. He spent most of the latter conflict in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1762, and was governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1764-1766. D'Estaing was promoted to vice admiral i...
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815
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Civil engineer, artist, and inventor. From the description of Letter : New York, to Edward P. Livingston, Clermont, [N.Y.], 1814 February 11. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50631960 Inventor, engineer, and artist. From the description of Papers, 1812-1815. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50799372 Inventor. From the description of Robert Fulton papers, 1809-1838. (Columbia University In the City of New York). World...
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805
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Governor General of India and British army officer. From the description of Papers of Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis, 1614-1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068310 British general; second in command in North America during Revolution, surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. Later governor-general of India. From the description of Proclamation, 1781 March 18, North Carolina. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156104 Charle...
Great Britain. Admiralty
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HMS Cleopatra operated out of Halifax during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sailing as far south as the West Indies. Sir Robert Laurie became captain in August 1804 and in 1805 became renowned for his action against the superior French ship Ville de Milan. From the description of By the commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ... (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778951118 In 1764...
