by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
1792 Overview In 1792 war clouds gathered over Britain as revolutionary France took up arms against her continental neighbours. The Prime Minister, William Pitt, was initially averse to hostilities and was more intent on making economies in the armed forces,...
by Richard Hiscocks | Dec 26, 2018 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
Lieutenant Perkins is rescued from Saint-Domingue – 24 February 1792 By February 1792 the island of Saint-Domingue, the modern-day Haiti, had been engaged in a very turbulent and bitter civil war for the best part of a year, brought about by the French...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 3, 2019 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
?Towards the end of 1791 Lieutenant Philip Beaver, the son of a clergyman, and prot?g? of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, became involved in a plan to purchase and then colonise the uncultivated island of Bulama off the coast of Sierra Leone. This island is...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 10, 2019 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
?In June 1777 the then 45 year-old Captain Adam Duncan of the Royal Navy had married 28 year-old Henrietta Dundas, the daughter of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas of Arniston, who had been the M.P for Midlothian from 1754-61, and in 1760 had become the Lord President of...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 14, 2019 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
George Collier and the Shipwreck of the Winterton – 22 August 1792 For many sea-officers lacking interest and patronage the opportunities for employment in the navy during times of peace could be scarce indeed, and it was not unusual for these less...
by Richard Hiscocks | Jan 22, 2019 | 1792, The Peace of 1784-1792
The Navy’s role in Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China – 1792-4 For many years there had been frustration in mercantile circles, in particular within the East India Company, at the restrictions placed on British trade by the Chinese authorities,...
