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HMS Ville de Paris

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twenty-three officers of the 50th, three of the 43rd, four of the 26th, three of the 18th, one of the 76th, two of the 52nd, two of the 36th, four Royal Engineers, and two Royal Artillery - a total of 44
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was pierced for eight guns but had six mounted, and had her owner and 40 men aboard when Watts arrived with his pinnace and 18 men. The British captured her before the other boats from
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could arrive. The French put up a minimal resistance and only suffered a few men lightly wounded; the British suffered no casualties. The action occurred in sight of the
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon KCB (1786–1815), was a British Army officer who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
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arrived off Portsmouth carrying the 43rd Light Infantry Battalion along with the 2nd Rifles.
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Waterloo Messenger: The Life of Henry Percy, Peninsular Soldier and French Prisoner of War.
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Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
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The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850.
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was placed on harbour service in 1824, and she was broken up in 1845.
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in April 1782, but in September of that year on the voyage to
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Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters.
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On 22 July 1814, at the conclusion of the Peninsula War,
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during construction, at the Royal Dockyard Chatham, 1789
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T., Oxford. 523:British National Archives. 684: 527:(TNA ADM 12, section 72.2) 284:as a prize, she sank in a 274:American Revolutionary War 258:. She was designed by Sir 569:Singlepicker Press, 1997. 561:Costello, Edward (1841). 118: 38: 23: 573:Kennedy, Don H. (1974). 482:William Mahon, see below 119:General characteristics 606:Mahon, William (2017). 595:Conway Maritime Press. 541:; Warlow, Ben (2006) . 532:A curtail'd memoir ... 525:Passengers on warships. 314:Lloyd's Patriotic Fund 234: 212:: 14 × 12-pounder guns 161:53 ft (16 m) 663:Royal Navy ship names 591:Lavery, Brian (2003) 278:Battle of the Saintes 229: 218:: 4 × 12-pounder guns 644:at Wikimedia Commons 613:Urban, Mark (2003). 339:was due to be paid. 617:Faber & Faber. 500:Costello, see below 386:, on 7 March 1810. 376:Admiral Collingwood 330:hired armed cutter 448:The London Gazette 359:including General 352:John Surman Carden 235: 640:Media related to 554:978-1-86176-281-8 344:Battle of Corunna 224: 223: 675: 639: 588: 558: 510: 509:Urban, see below 507: 501: 498: 492: 489: 483: 480: 474: 471: 465: 459: 453: 452: 439: 433: 430: 419: 413: 256:Chatham Dockyard 248:ship of the line 186:Full-rigged ship 132:ship of the line 82:Chatham Dockyard 55: 50: 49: 48: 28: 21: 683: 682: 678: 677: 676: 674: 673: 672: 648: 647: 632: 627: 585: 572: 555: 539:Colledge, J. 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Great Britain
first rate
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
QD
Fc

first rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Chatham Dockyard
John Henslow
Ville de Paris
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
American Revolutionary War
Battle of the Saintes
England
hurricane
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Channel Fleet
Messager
Lloyd's Patriotic Fund
hired armed cutter Nimrod
Battle of Corunna
John Surman Carden
Sir David Baird
John Colborne
Admiral Collingwood

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