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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 ...
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...
DAL VOCABOLARIO. LEMMI CORRELATI. Ammiraglio (Leatherhead, Surrey, 1748 - Plymouth 1817). Nominato governatore della Giamaica (1803), fu creato l'anno successivo viceammiraglio; il 6 febbr. 1806 si scontrò con una flotta francese di fronte a San Domingo, riportando una completa vittoria.
John Thomas Duckworth was born on February 9, 1747/48 in Leatherhead, England and joined the Royal Navy by age eleven. He became a lieutenant in 1771, captain in 1780, and in 1793 commander of the Orion , 74 guns.
Contents. Sir John Thomas Duckworth. British admiral. Learn about this topic in these articles: Battle of Santo Domingo. In Battle of Santo Domingo. …British squadron was led by Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, who annoyed his superiors by abandoning the blockade of Cádiz to take up the pursuit.
Sir John Thomas Duckworth's action in the Dardanelles, 19 February 1807. The good relations between Britain and the Ottoman Court following the Battle of the Nile were so eroded that by 1806 war was in the air.
