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Papers and Correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth - Part I: The French Revolutionary War, 1793 - 1802 (Hardcover)
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Papers and Correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth - Part I: The French Revolutionary War, 1793 - 1802 (Hardcover)
Series: Navy Records Society Publications
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Sir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets
throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an
assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson,
Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece
of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to
the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to
suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June
fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval
mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command
the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in
1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and
then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary
war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French
refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel
fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against
orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and
destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious
adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to
browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807.
He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the
city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet,
displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor
of Newfoundland completed his career.
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