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unusual facts about British Navy



Antoine de Sartine

Antoine de Sartine inherited a strong French Navy, resurrected by Choiseul after the disasters of the Seven Years' War (in which France had lost Canada, Louisiana, and India); a resurrected French Navy which would later defeat the British Navy in the War of American Independence.

Del Rio, Tennessee

According to family lore, Stokely was impressed into the British navy, but escaped and fought under American captain John Paul Jones.

Flinders bar

It is named after Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) who wrote a paper on ships' magnetism for the British Navy.

Vagrancy Act 1824

Nine years after the end of hostilities with France, the British Army and British Navy had undergone a massive reduction in numbers.


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Battle of Chelsea Creek

The British Navy around occupied Boston was under the command of Vice-Admiral Samuel Graves.

Blackbeard the Pirate

The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy.

Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, called for a general fast in England and proposed to send the British Navy if the massacre was not stopped while gathering funds for helping the Waldensians.

Gyrocompass

By 1880, William Thomson (lord Kelvin) tried to propose a gyrostat (tope) to the British Navy.

Msida

In the late 19th century, a floating British navy hydraulic dock was also planned at the central part of Msida close to where the Torpedo Depot used to stand.

Nicholas Kollerstrom

He helped to set up the Belgrano Action Group after the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano by the British Navy during the Falklands War in 1982.

Parker H. French

He left home as a teenager and eventually made his way to New Orleans where he signed on with the British Navy and sailed on a man-of-war as a "powder monkey" during the Opium Wars.

Strike Fleet

The player controls either the American or British Fleets over the course of ten scenarios, of which the last four can be played as a single campaign.

The Adventures of Roderick Random

It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon’s mate in the British Navy, especially during Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741.

Walter Marks

He made a notorious speech predicting that Armageddon would be initiated in 1934 when the British navy collected the Jewish people to take them to a Palestine.

Zachariah Mudge

Zachary Mudge (1770–1852), also referred to as Zachariah, British navy officer, participated in the historic Vancouver Expedition