by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 9, 2018 | 1790, The Peace of 1784-1792
A crisis known as the ?Spanish Armament? developed during April that was by far the most serious since the end of the American Revolutionary war. Britain and Spain clashed over the rights to Nookta Sound on the North American Pacific coast, and although the...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 8, 2018 | 1790, The Peace of 1784-1792
?During the course of his last voyage of discovery into the Pacific Ocean the late Captain James Cook had visited what was later to be known as Vancouver Island in 1778, and had found a deep water anchorage on the western coast which he had named Nookta Sound, an...
by Richard Hiscocks | Oct 9, 2018 | 1790, The Peace of 1784-1792
?In May 1790, with war clouds gathering over Britain as a result of the Nookta Sound dispute with Spain, Captain Charles Morice Pole was appointed to the frigate Melampus 36. Unfortunately, he was soon to find that rather than engaging in conflict with the enemy he...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 1, 2018 | 1790, The Peace of 1784-1792
The Endymion 44 had been launched in 1779 and had seen service in the West Indies during the American War of Revolution under the command of Captains Philip Carteret and Edward Tyrrell Smith, being present under the latter officer at the Battle of the Saintes...
