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John Lawson (Royal Navy officer)

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ships, releasing some two hundred captives and selling about the same number of Moors into slavery, he compelled them to renew the treaties. He returned to England for the winter of 1662–3, and again for that of 1663–1664; and the Algerines, seizing the opportunity, recommenced their piracies. In
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In June 1661, with his flag in the Swiftsure, Lawson accompanied Montagu, now earl of Sandwich, to the Mediterranean to stem the burgeoning corsair activity. Lawson was present when Sandwich and the earl of Peterborough took over
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to England, Lawson remained in command of a strong squadron with instructions to coerce Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli into observing treaties not to molest English shipping. After capturing several
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and he bought property in the new English possession; Lawson had been enthusiastic in support of taking Tangier when questioned by the King. When Sandwich went to Lisbon to conduct the new Queen
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and arrested in 1657. However, soon released, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the fleet by rump-parliament in 1659 to counter General at sea
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May, Lawson was again in the Mediterranean, but before the corsairs could be reduced he was ordered home.
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Lawson Lies Still in the Thames - the extraordinary life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson
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Lawson was in command of ships in the parliament's service during and after the
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Cromwell's navy : the fleet and the English Revolution, 1648-1660
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This English biographical article related to the military is a
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Commissioned as the vice-admiral of the red squadron for the
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Military personnel from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
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John Lawson (Naval officer)

Flagmen of Lowestoft
Sir Peter Lely
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
First Anglo-Dutch War
Robert Blake
Second Anglo-Dutch War
English Civil War
Fifth Monarchists
Edward Montagu
George Monck
restoration
Charles II of England
knighted
Tangier
Catherine of Braganza
corsair
Second Anglo-Dutch War
Battle of Lowestoft
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