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* In 1780, HMS Vulture, a Swan class sloop bearing 16 six-pounders and a crew of 99 seamen delivered Major John Andre to his meeting with General Benedict Arnold, near Haverstraw, N. Y., to finalize plans for Arnold's surrender of West Point to the British.
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1780 and HMS
* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).
In February 1780 the crews of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in
* HMS Ontario ( 1780 ), British warship sunk during the American Revolution
More importantly, much was made of a draft treaty of commerce, secretly negotiated between the Amsterdam banker Jean de Neufville and the American agent in Aix-la-Chapelle, William Lee, with the connivance of the Amsterdam pensionary Van Berckel, and found among the effects of Henry Laurens, an American diplomat who had been apprehended by the British cruiser HMS Vestal in September, 1780, on the high seas.
She was captured by the British in 1780 and renamed HMS Halifax.
Shipbuilding was particularly significant between 1780 and 1850 with around 100 ships launched including a 12-gun Royal Navy brig called HMS Snap.
In 1780 Robert joined HMS Monarch of which his maternal uncle, Adam Duncan, was in command.
USS Ranger was renamed HMS Halifax after the ship was captured along with USS Providence and USS Boston from the United States Navy on 11 May 1780, after the fall of Charleston, South Carolina during the American War of Independence.
* HMS Magnanime of 1780
* HMS Repulse was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1800.
* HMS Repulse was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and wrecked in 1782.
She was converted to a fireship and renamed HMS Spitfire in 1779 and was sold in 1780.
* The, a 16-gun sloop-of-war, was originally the British HMS Ariel captured by the French in 1779, loaned to the Americans in 1780, and given back to the French the following year.
* HMS Surprize, a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and sold in 1786.
As Rear-Admiral, Francis William Drake flew his flag on HMS Victory from 26 September 1780 to 29 December 1780.
She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied HMS Resolution on Captain James Cook's third voyage of exploration from 1776 to 1780.
* HMS Charlestown, was the USS Boston, which the British captured on 12 May 1780.
She was renamed HMS Pluto and became a fire-ship in 1777, and was captured by the French in 1780.
* 1780: HMS Lowestoffe, 32, Captain Edmund Dodd, ( transferred from Syren ); bound for the West Indies squadron.
She was renamed HMS Scorpion and converted into a sloop later that year and was sold in 1780.
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* the 26-gun frigate Belle Poule ( 1765 ), famous for her duel against the English frigate HMS Arethusa on 17 June 1778, which started the French intervention in the American War of Independence ; the British 64-gun ship of the line HMS Nonsuch captured her in 1780 and she was broken up in 1801.
1780 and Vulture
André went up the Hudson River on the British sloop-of-war Vulture on Wednesday, 20 September 1780, to visit Arnold.
1780 and Swan
The centre of the town is dominated by four pubs-The Dog, The Whalley Arms, The Swan Hotel ( established in 1780 ) and The DeLacy Arms.
1780 and class
It concentrates on English artisan and working class society " in its formative years 1780 to 1832.
Most historians however agree that faction fighting had class and political overtones, as depicted for example in the works of William Carleton and James S. Donnelly's " Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780 ".
1780 and sloop
*, a 18-gun sloop launched in 1780 ; lost at sea the following year
* The second Zebra, launched in 1780, was an 18-gun sloop, converted to a bomb vessel, and sold in 1812.
*, a 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1763 and foundered in 1780 in a hurricane off Jamaica
* Between 1780 and 1781, the Royal Navy employed the sloop.
* was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1780.
* was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1762 and put up for sale in 1780.
This was an 18-gun French privateer sloop that captured in 1780 ; this Duguay-Trouin was sold on 30 October 1783.
In autumn 1780, he became surgeon on board the privateer sloop Hope owned by Joseph Nightingale and John Innis Clarke, keeping a diary that was later published.
1780 and bearing
The Maria Theresa thaler bearing the date of 1780 is a " protected coin " for the purposes of Part II of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981.
At 0700 on 9 June 1780, Protector spotted a strange ship bearing down on her, flying British colors.
So much was this the case that during the " No Popery " riots of June, 1780, a post-chaise conveying four of the rioters, and bearing the insignia of the mob, drove the whole way from London to Bath, where Walmesley then resided.
1780 and 16
Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.
* November 16 – Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist ( b. 1780 )
Fourteen battles took place in the area, including the Battle of Camden ( August 16, 1780 ) and the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill ( April 25, 1781 ).
The County is named after John Paulding ( October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818 ), who was famous for the capture of the British spy Major John André in 1780 during the American Revolution.
** Steuben House was used by George Washington as his headquarters for 16 days in September 1780.
The Battle of Camden, the worst American defeat of the Revolution, was fought on August 16, 1780 in Camden, and the Battle of Hobkirk Hill was fought between around 1, 400 American troops led by General Nathanael Greene and 950 British soldiers led by Lord Francis Rawdon on April 25, 1781.
John went to live with a man named William Robinson, and at age 12 in 1776 was consigned to the care of a Mr. Whitehead, who was paid for his board and education until 1780, when he turned 16.
In the summer of 1780, near Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, the British attacked Horatio Gates ' army, which broke and ran in wild confusion.
On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates about 10 km ( five miles ) north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.
Battle of Camden initial dispositions and movements, 16 August 1780
The website Documentary History of the Battle of Camden, 16 August 1780 details on its Officer Casualties at Camden page the fates of 48 Continental officers at Camden: 5 were killed, 4 died of wounds, 4 were wounded without being captured, 11 were wounded and captured and 24 were captured without being wounded.
At the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780, de Kalb's horse was shot from under him, causing him to tumble to the ground.
The reconstituted Southern army, now under General Horatio Gates, was severely defeated at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, which opened up the South to British control.
The second was at the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780.
Pierre-Jean de Béranger ( 19 August 1780 – 16 July 1857 ) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier ( songwriter ), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death.
During the summer of 1779 the Monarch was attached to the Channel fleet under Sir Charles Hardy ; in December was one of the squadron with which Rodney sailed for the relief of Gibraltar, and had a prominent share in the action off St. Vincent on 16 January 1780.
James FitzGibbon ( 16 November 1780 – 10 December 1863 ) was a British soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
Joseph Ritner ( March 25, 1780 – October 16, 1869 ) was the eighth Governor of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, elected as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party.
He then assumed command of all of North Carolina's militia, which he commanded at the American defeat at Camden, 16 August 1780.
Watermans ' Hall is located at 16 St Mary At Hill, in Billingsgate, it dates to 1780 and is the only surviving Georgian guild hall.
Gray joined at age 16 in 1780, and was eventually present at the Battle of Yorktown.
On December 16, 1780, he routed a Cherokee force at the Battle of Boyd's Creek, near modern Sevierville.
On 16 February 1780 at Bolton Parish Church, Crompton married Mary Pimlott ( or Pimbley ).
Cornell was appointed deputy adjutant general on October 1, 1776, appointed brigadier general of State troops in 1776 and served until March 16, 1780.
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