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Amalgam (chemistry)
An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal, which may be a liquid, a soft paste or a solid, depending upon the proportion of mercury.
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Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)
The Anglo-Spanish War was a conflict fought between 1796 and 1802, and again from 1804 to 1808, as part of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Antonio de Escaño
Antonio de Escaño y García de Cáceres (Cartagena, Murcia, 1750 - Cádiz, 12 July 1814) was a Spanish army and navy officer.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros y de la Torre (1756–1829) was a Spanish naval officer born in Cartagena.
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Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.
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Battle of the Nile
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt from 1 to 3 August 1798.
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Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1815).
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Beachy Head
Beachy Head is a Chalk headland in East Sussex, England.
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Benjamin Hallowell Carew
Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew (born Benjamin Hallowell; ?1 January 1761 – 2 September 1834) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.
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Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.
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British Warships in the Age of Sail
British Warships in the Age of Sail is a series of four books by maritime historian Rif Winfield comprising a historical reference work providing details of all recorded ships that served or were intended to serve in the Royal Navy from 1603 to 1863.
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Cape St. Vincent
Cape St.
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Captain of the fleet
In the Royal Navy of the 18th and 19th centuries a captain of the fleet could be appointed to assist an admiral when the admiral had ten or more ships to command.
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Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena (Carthago Nova) is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain.
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Cayetano Valdés y Flores
Cayetano Valdés y Flores Bazán (1767–1835) was a commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, fighting for both sides at different times due to the changing fortunes of Spain in the conflict.
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Cádiz
Cádiz (see other pronunciations below) is a city and port in southwestern Spain.
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Ciriaco Ceballos
Ciriaco Ceballos Neto or Ciriaco Cevallos y Bustillo (Quijano, Cantabria, 1763 - México, 1816) was a Spanish sailor, explorer and cartographer.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Corsica in Corsican and Italian, pronounced and respectively) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.
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Cutter (boat)
A cutter is typically a small, but in some cases a medium-sized, watercraft designed for speed rather than for capacity.
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Daniel Orme
Daniel Orme (1766–c. 1832) was an artist in England.
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Earl
An earl is a member of the nobility.
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Edward Foote
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward James Foote, KCB (20 April 1767 – 23 May 1833) was a prominent Royal Navy officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Elba
Elba (isola d'Elba,; Ilva; Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλία, Aithalia) is a Mediterranean island in Tuscany, Italy, from the coastal town of Piombino, and the largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago.
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Fifth-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchical system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.
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First-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line, equivalent to the 'super-dreadnought' of more recent times.
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Flag captain
In the Royal Navy, a flag captain was the captain of an admiral's flagship.
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Francisco Javier Winthuysen y Pineda
Francisco Javier Winthuysen y Pineda (Born El Puerto de Santa María, 1747 - Died off Cape St. Vincent, 1797) was a Spanish naval officer.
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Freedom of the City
The Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by a municipality upon a valued member of the community, or upon a visiting celebrity or dignitary.
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French frigate Minerve (1794)
Minerve was a 40-gun ''Minerve''-class frigate of the French Navy.
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French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution.
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George Henry Towry
Captain George Henry Towry (4 March 1767 – 9 April 1809) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century who is best known for his service as commander of the frigate HMS ''Dido'', in the Action of 24 June 1795 in the Western Mediterranean Sea during the French Revolutionary Wars, when, in company with HMS ''Lowestoffe'' he successfully fought and defeated the French frigates ''Minerve'' and ''Artémise'', capturing Minerve and driving off Artémise.
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George Martin (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin (1764 – 28 July 1847) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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George Murray (Royal Navy officer, born 1759)
Vice-Admiral Sir George Murray KCB (January 1759 – 28 February 1819) was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw service in a wide range of theatres and campaigns.
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George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway
Admiral George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway (24 March 1768 – 27 March 1834), styled Lord Garlies between 1773 and 1806, was a British naval commander and politician.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.
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Guinea (coin)
The guinea was a coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814.
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HMS Barfleur (1768)
HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship ''Royal William'', and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768, at a cost of £49,222.
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HMS Blenheim (1761)
HMS Blenheim was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 July 1761 at Woolwich.
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HMS Bonne Citoyenne (1796)
Bonne Citoyenne was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy launched in 1794, the name ship of a four-vessel class.
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HMS Britannia (1762)
HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Captain (1787)
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse.
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HMS Colossus (1787)
HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Culloden (1783)
HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 June 1783 at Rotherhithe.
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HMS Diadem (1782)
HMS Diadem was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 December 1782 at Chatham.
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HMS Egmont (1768)
HMS Egmont was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 August 1768 at Deptford.
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HMS Excellent (1787)
HMS Excellent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 27 November 1787.
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HMS Goliath (1781)
HMS Goliath was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy.
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HMS Irresistible (1782)
HMS Irresistible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 December 1782 at Harwich.
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HMS Lively (1794)
HMS Lively was a 32-gun fifth-rate Alcmene-class frigate of the British Royal Navy launched on 23 October 1794 at Northam, Devon.
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HMS Namur (1756)
HMS Namur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 3 March 1756.
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HMS Niger (1759)
HMS Niger was a 32-gun ''Niger''-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Orion (1787)
HMS ''Orion'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the, by William Bately.
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HMS Prince George (1772)
HMS Prince George was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1772 at Chatham.
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HMS San Josef (1797)
HMS San Josef was a 114-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
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HMS San Nicolas (1797)
The San Nicolás was an 80-gun third rate ship of the Spanish Navy.
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HMS Southampton (1757)
HMS Southampton was the name ship of the 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765.
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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
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James Hawkins-Whitshed
Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed, 1st Baronet (1762 – 28 October 1849) was a Royal Navy officer.
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James Macnamara
James Macnamara (1768 – 15 January 1826) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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James Richard Dacres (1749–1810)
James Richard Dacres (February 1749 – 6 January 1810) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez
Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (or Sausmarez), GCB (11 March 1757 – 9 October 1836) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, notable for his victory at the Battle of Algeciras.
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Jibe
A jibe (US) or gybe (Britain) is a sailing maneuver whereby a sailing vessel reaching downwind turns its stern through the wind, such that the wind direction changes from one side of the boat to the other.
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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (9 January 1735 – 14 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
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John Sutton (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir John Sutton, (c.1758 – 8 August 1825) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century who is best known for his service as captain of the ship of the line HMS ''Egmont'' during the French Revolutionary Wars, serving with the Mediterranean Fleet in several prominent engagements.
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José Antonio Pareja
Brigadier José Antonio de Pareja y Mariscal (December 7, 1757 in Cabra, Spain – May 21, 1813 in Chillán, Chile) was a senior Spanish naval officer.
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José de Córdoba y Ramos
José de Córdoba y Ramos, (Utrera, September 26, 1732 – Cádiz, April 3, 1815), was a Spanish explorer and naval officer from the 18th century.
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José de Córdoba y Rojas
José María Fernández de Córdoba y Rojas (also José de Córdoba) (6 April 1774 in San Fernando, Cádiz – 15 December 1810 in Potosí), was a Spanish military who played an important role in the early stages of the Argentine War of Independence.
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Lagos, Portugal
Lagos (literally lakes; Lacobriga) is a municipality at the mouth of Bensafrim River and along the Atlantic Ocean, in the Barlavento region of the Algarve, in southern Portugal.
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Levant (wind)
The levant (Llevant, Levante, Lvant, Λεβάντες, Levante) is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France, an example of mountain-gap wind.
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List of early warships of the English navy
This is a list of early warships belonging to the English sovereign or the English Government, the precursor to the Royal Navy of England (from 1707 of Great Britain, and subsequently of the United Kingdom).
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List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy
This is a list of frigate classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom (and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order from the formal creation of the Royal Navy following the Restoration in 1660.
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List of Spanish sail frigates
This is list of Spanish sail frigates: (incomplete) Spanish frigates often had secular names and religious aliases.
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Meaford, Staffordshire
Meaford is a landmark hamlet in the English county of Staffordshire.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a museum of fine arts located in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain).
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Naval flag signalling
Naval flag signalling covers various forms of flag signalling, such as semaphore or flaghoist, used by various navies; distinguished from maritime flag signalling by merchant or other non-naval vessels or flags used for identification.
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Naval General Service Medal (1847)
The Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) was a campaign medal approved in 1847, and issued to officers and men of the Royal Navy in 1849.
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Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
The Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Our Lady of Mercy in English, a title of the Virgin Mary) was a Spanish Navy frigate which was sunk by the British off the south coast of Portugal on 5 October 1804 during the Battle of Cape Santa Maria.
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Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Pension
A pension is a fund into which a sum of money is added during an employee's employment years, and from which payments are drawn to support the person's retirement from work in the form of periodic payments.
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Ralph Willett Miller
Ralph Willett Miller (24 January 1762 – 14 May 1799) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
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Rating system of the Royal Navy
The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the British Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.
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Richard Bowen
Richard Bowen (1761 – 25 July 1797) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Robert Calder
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, (2 July 17451 September 1818) was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Robert Cleveley
Robert Cleveley (1747, Deptford – 28 September 1809, Dover) was an English maritime painter.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Salvador del Mundo (ship)
Salvador del Mundo was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Ferrol for the Spanish Navy in 1787 to plans by Romero Landa, one of the eight very large ships of the line of the Santa Ana class, also known as los Meregildos.
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Second Treaty of San Ildefonso
The Second Treaty of San Ildefonso was signed on 19 August 1796 between Spain and the First French Republic.
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Second-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns and were originally two-deckers or had only partially armed third gun decks.
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Seventy-four (ship)
The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line which nominally carried 74 guns.
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Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside firepower to bear.
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Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, GCB (24 August 1754 – 28 November 1831) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.
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Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet (c.1740 – 17 March 1799) was a British naval officer.
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Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet
Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, (10 October 1767 – 3 October 1828) was a British Royal Navy officer.
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Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (c. 1758 – 1 February 1807) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Harburn
Admiral Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet (1 January 1743 – 31 October 1802), was a British naval commander.
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Sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns.
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Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (Grande y Felicísima Armada, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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Spanish ship Bahama (1784)
Bahama was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy.
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Spanish ship Conde de Regla (1786)
Conde de Regla was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Havanna for the Spanish Navy in 1786 to plans by Romero Landa.
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Spanish ship Mexicano (1786)
Mexicano (or Mejicano) was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line built at Havanna for the Spanish Navy in 1786 to plans by Romero Landa.
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Spanish ship Neptuno (1795)
Neptuno was an 80-gun ''Montañes''-class ship of the line of the Spanish Navy.
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Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad
Santísima Trinidad (officially named Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad by royal order on 12 March 1768, nicknamed La Real, sometimes confused with the galleon ''Santísima Trinidad y Nuestra Señora del Buen Fin'') was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line with 112 guns.
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Spanish ship Principe de Asturias (1794)
The Príncipe de Asturias was a Spanish three-deck 112-gun ship of the line, named after Ferdinand, eldest surviving son of Charles IV of Spain.
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Spanish ship Purísima Concepción (1779)
The Purísima Concepción, was a Spanish first-rate ship of the line of the Kingdom of Spain's Armada Real in service between 1779 and 1810.
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Spanish ship San Ildefonso
San Ildefonso was a ship of the Spanish Navy launched in 1785.
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Spanish ship San José
A number of ships of the Spanish Navy have borne the name San José in honour of Saint Joseph.
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Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno
San Juan Nepomuceno was a Spanish ship of the line launched in 1765 from the royal shipyard in Guarnizo (Cantabria).
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Tacking (sailing)
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction.
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Tagus
The Tagus (Tajo,; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Tampion
A tampion or tompion (in the Royal NavySimmons, 1812, p. 163.) is a wooden plug, or a metal, canvas, rubber, or plastic cover, for the muzzle of a gun or mortar.
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The London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.
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Third-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
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Thomas Foley (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Thomas Foley GCB (1757 – 9 January 1833) was a Royal Navy officer and "Hero of the Battle of the Nile".
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Thomas Frederick (Royal Navy officer)
Thomas Lennox Frederick (25 March 1750 – 7 October 1799) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Topmast
The masts of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging.
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Treaty of Amiens
The Treaty of Amiens (French: la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between the French Republic and Great Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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William Prowse
William Prowse CB (1752 – 23 March 1826) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, GCB (9 July 1753 – 20 August 1825) was the Governor of Newfoundland and an admiral in the Royal Navy.
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Windward and leeward
Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St_Vincent_(1797)
