by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018 | 1791, The Peace of 1784-1792
?March Vice-Admiral Lord Hood began to commission a fleet of thirty-six sail of the line when concern over Russia?s territorial ambitions threatened to invoke Britain?s Triple Alliance with Prussia and the Netherlands. Eventually, opposition to a possible war in...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 20, 2018 | 1791, The Peace of 1784-1792
?Although Britain had been at peace for the best part of eight years, her government had maintained a robust attitude to European affairs, as evidenced by its re-commissioning of the fleet for the Dutch Armament of 1788 and the Spanish Armament of 1790. One particular...
by Richard Hiscocks | Nov 29, 2018 | 1791, The Peace of 1784-1792
?Following the signing of the Nookta Sound Convention which brought an end to the Spanish Armament in October 1790, the sloop Discovery, Commander George Vancouver, accompanied by a tender, the Chatham, Lieutenant William Broughton, were sent to reclaim those...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 9, 2018 | 1791, The Peace of 1784-1792
Captain Bligh’s Second Breadfruit Mission – August 1791-August 1793 It would be fair to say that William Bligh’s first mission to the Pacific Ocean had not been an unqualified success. Sailing in command of the Bounty in December 1787 with...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 18, 2018 | 1791, The Peace of 1784-1792
?Throughout the ten years following the end of the American Revolutionary War there had been no substantive threat to peace between France and Britain in home waters, but on the sub-continent of India the conflicts of interest between the two empires had ensured that...
