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Robert Maunsell (post-captain)
Post-captain, Captain Robert Charles Maunsell (1785/6–1845) was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post-captain. He was born at Limerick, a son of Archdeacon William Maunsell, in 1785 or 1786.Marshall 1829, p. 36. He had one brother in the Church of Ireland, Church, and another in the British Army, Army.Marshall 1829, p. 39. He entered the Royal Navy on board the HMS Mermaid (1784), ''Mermaid'', 32 guns, Captain Robert Dudley Oliver, in 1799; and subsequently served under Captains Richard Hussey Moubray and George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784), George Elliot, in the HMS Maidstone (1795), ''Maidstone'', 32 guns, on the Mediterranean Station, Mediterranean station. On 11 July 1804, he received a very severe wound in the hip, while assisting at the Action of 11 July 1804 (Bay of Hiérès), destruction of about a dozen French settees, at La Vandour, near Toulon, by the boats of the ''Maidstone'' and her consorts, under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I of Great Britain, George I on 18 May 1725. Recipients of the Order are usually senior British Armed Forces, military officers or senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servants, and the monarch awards it on the advice of His Majesty's Government. The name derives from an elaborate medieval ceremony for preparing a candidate to receive his knighthood, of which ritual bathing (as a symbol of Ritual purification, purification) was an element. While not all knights went through such an elaborate ceremony, knights so created were known as "knights of the Bath". George I constituted the Knights of the Bath as a regular Order (honour), military order. He did not revive the order, which did not previously exist, in the sense of a body of knights governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred. The Order consists of the Sovereign of the United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
