He was promoted to captain in 1781, and was given command of.

* Arthur Forbis, captain of the Guilford County militia at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, where he was mortally wounded, March 15, 1781.

The fruit is said to have been introduced to Japan by a Cantonese captain in the An ' ei era ( 1772 – 1781 ).

In 1781, Bowles left as captain of the school, and went on to Trinity College, Oxford, where he had won a scholarship.

He entered the army as an ensign in the 25th Regiment of Foot in 1779, was promoted lieutenant in 1781, and captain into the 75th Regiment of Foot in 1783.

In 1781 he received a commission in the Hanoverian guards, and as a captain took part in the campaigns of 1793-1795 in the Low Countries, distinguishing himself particularly on the Lys in command of light infantry.

1740 – 1781 ) was a captain in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, commander of the which was lost at sea.

From 1781 to 1790 he was a captain, in charge of ships of the line, and afterward he was in charge of the reconstruction of the harbor at Tarragona.

During the American Revolutionary War, under Admirals Richard Howe and George Rodney he distinguished himself in the West Indies, and in July 1781 was promoted to captain.

As captain of the 16-gun brig Minerva, he embarked on a successful career as a privateer in 1781.

Promoted to post captain on 25 April 1781, and transferred to command HMS Narcissus

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Young, the first for John Young ( c. 1740 – 1781 ), a captain in the Continental Navy, and the second for Rear Admiral Lucien Young ( 1852 – 1912 ).

The state's House of Delegates named him as a captain on March 23, 1778, and a major in 1781.

* 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

After Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1781, the western part of this line and the Ohio River became a border between slave and free states, although Delaware retained slavery until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865.

After Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1781, the western part of this line and the Ohio River became a border between free and slave states, although Delaware remained a slave state.

He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs on 8 September 1781, his life being saved by an escaped slave named Tony Small ( nicknamed ' Faithful Tony ').

The Zong Massacre of 1781 prompted Peckard to speak strongly against slave trade in his sermons, some of which were published as tracts and pamphlets.

The Zong Massacre was a mass-killing of approximately 142 slaves that took place in 1781, on the Zong, a slave ship owned by a Liverpool slave-trading syndicate.

In 1781 Reeve, worked with Theodore Sedgwick to represent Elizabeth Freeman ( known as Bett ), a slave in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in a legal bid for her freedom.

Less than a decade later, the Ashleys ' slave, Elizabeth " Mum Bett " Freeman won her freedom under the new state constitution through a celebrated 1781 Massachusetts state court battle.

It was named in honor of Captain James Lawrence ( 1781 – 1813 ), who while commanding the USS Chesapeake in an 1813 battle with the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon, issued his famous command: " Don't give up the ship!

* The first Sceptre, launched in 1781, was a 64 gun third rate ship of the line.

* HMS Warrior was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1781.

When they were finally released in 1781, they were sent by merchant ship to Philadelphia.

He was imprisoned on the transport ship Pack Horse until his exchange in June 1781.

* The first Narcissus was a 20-gun post ship launched in 1781 and wrecked in 1796.

In January 1781, when in command of the 50-gun, he captured a Dutch 50-gun ship which had beaten off a British vessel of equal strength a few days before.

Becoming a British prisoner when that ship was captured in 1781, he was held for a time in the prison ship New Jersey.

The frigates French ship Recherche ( 1787 ) | Recherche and French ship Espérance ( 1781 ) | Espérance

At age 25, Little was appointed first lieutenant of Massachusetts ship Protector in 1779, and was aboard in 1781 when she fought a running battle with the British ship Thames.

So early as 1781, William Bolts, Esq ; fitted out the Cobenzell, an armed ship of 700 tons, for the North-West Coast of America.

After commanding in another small frigate,, in which he was shipwrecked by a hurricane in 1781, Collingwood was promoted to 64 gun ship of the line, and in 1783 he was appointed to and posted to the West Indies, where he remained until the end of 1786, again, together with Nelson and this time his brother, Captain Wilfred Collingwood, preventing American ships from trading with the West Indies.

It was captured by a British 16-gun ship named Alert on 10 February 1781.

The only tentative link with Mexico was via ship after the Quechans ( Yumas ) closed the Colorado River's Yuma Crossing in 1781.

She was refitted as a 60-gun ship in 1781, used as a receiving ship from 1783 and was broken up in 1811.

She was used as a slop ship from 1781 and was sold in 1783.

* Argonaute ( 1781 ), a 74-gun ship of the line, razéed to a 42-gun ship in 1794 and renamed Flibustier, out of service in 1795

For example, the Zong, a British slaver, took too many slaves on a voyage to the New World in 1781.

In early March 1781, the Zong was purchased by the master of the William, on behalf of a syndicate of Liverpool merchants.

The Zong had taken on more slaves than it could safely transport when it sailed from São Tomé on 6 September 1781.

On 18 or 19 November 1781 the Zong neared Tobago, in the Caribbean, but failed to stop there.

On 22 December 1781, the Zong arrived at the Black River, Jamaica, with 208 slaves on board.