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They would surrender themselves and their arms and return to their homes, provided the free-quarters would end and plundered property was restored. While Dundas may have been favourable to negotiate terms and end hostilities, the government was indignant and sent General Gerard Lake , Commander-in-Chief of the army, to Castlemartin.
HMS Victor (1798) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1798 and paid off in 1808 to be sold. Because Victor served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. [1]
But he found the conqueror of Italy incurious about the Irish situation being in need of a war of conquest, not of liberation, to pay his army. [70] In February 1798, British spies did report that the First Consul was preparing a fleet in the Channel ports ready for the embarkation of up to 50,000 men, [68]: 31 but the preparations were soon ...
On April 9, 1798, the bill was amended, engrossed and read the third time and on April 12, 1798, the bill was passed and sent to the Senate for concurrence. [6] [7] The bill was received in the Senate on April 12, 1798, and read the first time. [8] The bill received its second reading the following day and was referred to committee. [9]
USS Pickering was a brig, the 1st brig built for the UCRC Service, [2] in the United States Revenue Cutter Service and then the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France. She was named for Timothy Pickering, then the Secretary of State. USRC Pickering was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1798 for the Revenue Cutter Service ...
The Quasi-War [a] was an undeclared war from 1798 to 1800 between the United States and the French First Republic.It was fought almost entirely at sea, primarily in the Caribbean and off the East Coast of the United States, with minor actions in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
The U.S. Navy purchased Croyable on 30 July 1798, manned her at Philadelphia, renamed her Retaliation, and placed her under the command of Lt. William Bainbridge. Retaliation departed Norfolk on 28 October 1798 with Montezuma and Norfolk and cruised in the West Indies protecting American commerce during the Quasi-War with France.
HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was HMS Caesar). Foudroyant was built in the dockyard at Plymouth Dock (a.k.a. Devonport) and launched on 31 March 1798. [b] Foudroyant served Nelson as his flagship from 6 June 1799 until the end of June 1800.