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Septimus Arabin
Septimus Arabinus Arabin (1785–1855) was an admiral in the Royal Navy of Irish/French descent. Life He was born in West Drayton a younger son of Colonel (later General) William John Arabin. His paternal grandfather, John Arabin was famed for raising the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot at the onset of the Seven Years' War. He had multiple siblings many of whom had senior ranks in the British Army plus an elder brother was the senior judge, William St Julien Arabin. His father divorced his mother in 1786 when she was accused of adultery with Sir Thomas Sutton of Moulsey in 1786. His father then married Catherine Louisa Le Marchant of Guernsey (1771-1834), twenty years his junior, who raised Septimus and his siblings as their mother. Whilst most of his male siblings joined the British Army, Septimus instead joined the Royal Navy. IN April 1799 he defended the city of Acre against the French fleet as part of the Egyptian campaign. He was a cadet officer on the 74 gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the World War II, Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dacres (Royal Navy Officer)
Sir Richard Dacres (September 1761 – 22 January 1837) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren .... A member of a substantial naval dynasty, he eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral. Family and early life Richard Dacres was born in September 1761, the fifth son of Richard and Mary Dacres, and younger brother to James Richard Dacres.Tracy (2006), p. 109 The Dacres would eventually become a substantial naval dynasty; James Richard rose to be a vice-admiral, his son Barrington Dacres, Barrington became a post-captain, and James Richard Dacres (1788–1853), James became a vice-admiral. Richard's own son Sydney Dacres, Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1785 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The first issue of the '' Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. * January 11 – Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167 * January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút: Invading Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River, by the Tây Sơn. * January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgia General Assembly meeting in Savannah. The first students are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Rumbold, 2nd Baronet
Sir George Rumbold, 2nd Baronet (17 August 1764 – 15 December 1807) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Hanseatic League. Early life George Berriman Rumbold was born in Fort William, India, where his father Thomas Rumbold worked for the East India Company. Berriman was his mother's maiden name. He was educated privately and at Christ's College, Cambridge. Career He joined the Diplomatic Service and in 1803 was appointed ambassador to the Hanse Towns, minister-resident of Great Britain at Hamburg (at that time a "free city"), and chargé d'affaires to the Circle of Lower Saxony. On the night of 24 October 1804 Rumbold was abducted by French troops on the pretext that British Ministers on the Continent had conspired against France. Joseph Fouché, the Minister of Police in Paris, had sent an order in the name of Napoleon to Marshal Bernadotte commanding French occupation troops in Hanover. A detachment of 250 French troops embarked in boats at Harburg, in Hano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice, France
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the , the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the |
HMS North Star (1824)
HMS ''North Star'' was a 28-gun sixth-rate post ship built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy. She was launched in 1824. North Star Bay, a bay in Greenland, was named in honour of this ship. Suppressing the Atlantic slave trade From 1826 to 1828 under Captain Arabin, ''North Star'' was stationed in the West Africa Squadron, whose task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. In late 1828 she sailed to England, via the West Indies. From 1829 to 1832 she was stationed in Portsmouth; then from 1832 to 1833 she became part of the North America and West Indies Station before being paid off. In 1834 she was commissioned for service on the Pacific Station then known as the South American Station. She was in the Pacific off the coast of South and Central America until 1836, when she returned to Portsmouth. First Anglo-Chinese War In September 1841 Captain Sir James Everard Home was appointed to ''North Star''. She was then commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The regional municipality consists of four former municipalities that were Amalgamation (politics), amalgamated in 1996: History of Halifax (former city), Halifax, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth, Bedford, Nova Scotia, Bedford, and Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Halifax County. Halifax is a major economic centre in Atlantic Canada, with a large concentration of government services and private sector companies. Major employers and economic generators include the Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), Saint Mary's University, the Halifax Shipyard, various levels of government, and the Port of Halifax. Agricult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Argus (1799)
HMS ''Argus'' was launched in 1798 at Bordeaux as ''Argus''. She became a privateer that the British Royal Navy (RN) captured in 1799. She served from April 1803 until she was broken up in April 1811. Privateer and capture ''Argus'' was a 300-ton (French; "of load") brig or corvette commissioned in Bordeaux in 1798, probably built that same year for Paul Mairac & Sons. On 10 December 1798, the French privateer ''Argus'' brought too ''Mary'', Darby, master, from London to St Vincent's. However the wind was blowing too hard and ''Argus'' was unable to board ''Mary''. On 31 March 1799 at , recaptured the West Indiaman ''Minerva'' of Liverpool, that ''Argus'' had captured some 16 days earlier. On 3 April 1799, HMS ''Pomone'' met and captured ''Argus'' after a pursuit of 108 miles that hit 12 knots. ''Argus'' was only six months old and was pierced for 22 guns, though she carried 18 brass 9-pounders. Prior to her own capture, ''Argus'' had captured ''Minerva'' and two brigs f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hibernia (1804)
HMS ''Hibernia'' was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only ship built to her draught, designed by Sir John Henslow. On 11 January 1806, ''Hibernia'' capsized in the "Wembury River" — probably a reference to the River Yealm off Wembury, Devon, England — with the loss of 19 of her crew. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service. Between 1807 and 1808, ''Hibernia'', under the command of Sir William Sidney Smith, led the British escort of the Portuguese Royal Family during the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil. ''Hibernia'' was flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet from 1816 until 1855, when she became the flagship for the Royal Navy's base at Malta and stationed in Grand Harbour. She remained in this role until she was sold in 1902. After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, HMS ''Hibernia'' was used in the service of the British Empire in other w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Tremendous
HMS ''Tremendous'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Edward Hunt, built to the lines of by William Barnard's yard at Deptford Green, and launched on 30 October 1784. French Revolutionary War service Throughout May 1794 ''Tremendous'', whilst under the command of Captain James Pigott, participated in the campaign which culminated in the Battle of the Glorious First of June. Pigott had kept his ship too far to windward of the enemy to make best use of his guns in the battle; ''Tremendous''s captain was one of several denied medals afterwards. While operating in the Indian Ocean, on 25 April 1799 ''Tremendous'', , and recaptured as she lay at anchor under the guns of the battery at Connonies-Point, Île de France. The French frigate had captured ''Chance'', which was carrying a cargo of rice, in Balasore Roads. The squadron also recaptured another ship that a French privateer had captured in the Bay of Bengal. Lastly, after the French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
