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Biografia. Si distinse nel 1778 combattendo davanti a Grenada al comando del commodoro John Byron e dell'ammiraglio Charles Henri d'Estaing. Contribuì nel 1794 alla vittoria riportata dai britannici su Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse nei pressi di Capo Lizard.
Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1st Baronet, GCB (9 February 1748 – 31 August 1817) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, as the Governor of Newfoundland during the War of 1812, and a member of the British ...
Sir John Thomas Duckworth. 1748-1817. Of Lancastrian descent, he was born on 9 February 1748 at Leatherhead, one of five sons of the Rev. Henry Duckworth, who later became Canon of Windsor, and of his wife, Sarah Johnson of Ickenham, Middlesex.
John thomas duckworth. Villaret-joyeuse. Dardanelli. Ammiraglio. Terranova. Ammiraglio inglese, nato a Leatherhead il 28 febbraio 1748, morto a Plymouth il 14 aprile 1817. Prese parte alla battaglia del 1° giugno 1794 (1...
Inviato con una squadra nel Mediterraneo per sorvegliare le mosse della Turchia, il 19 febbr. 1807 forzò i Dardanelli, ma al ritorno subì serie perdite a opera delle batterie nemiche. Nell'Enciclopedia Treccani troverai tutto quello che devi sapere su Duckworth, Sir John Thomas.
5 mar 2024 · Admiral John Thomas Duckworth was born in 1747 at Leatherhead in Surrey, attended Eton College briefly, and was sponsored into the Navy by Admiral Boscawen at the age of 13 in the midst of the Seven Years’ War.
He was one of five sons and two daughters of the Reverend Henry Duckworth (1712-1794) of Middleton, Lancashire (later, vicar of Stoke Poges and rector of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and a minor canon of Windsor), by his wife Sarah, née Johnson (d. 1780) of Ickenham in Uxbridge, Middlesex.
