Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy commander who saw service against the French during...
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in 1866 as a handheld version of the optical telegraph system of Home Riggs Popham used on land, and its later improvement by Charles Pasley. The land...
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Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1853 George Popham (1550–1608), pioneering colonist in Maine born in Somerset, England Home Riggs...
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William Pitt, Lord Henry Melville, Francisco de Miranda and Sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham did not believe a complete military occupation of South America...
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police administration. Popham was born on 5 July 1745, the fourth son of Joseph Popham of Gibraltar and Mary Riggs. Popham's younger brother was the...
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vessels under the command of Cmdre. Home Riggs Popham, assembled from two fleets out of Cork and Falmouth. Popham took the 64-gun HMS Diadem as his flagship...
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Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), who developed the Signal Code adopted by the Navy in 1803. Penelope Popham; Elinor Popham; Elizabeth Popham (d.1637)...
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South America, then an ally of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Home Riggs Popham had orchestrated an expedition against South America without the British...
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Etrusco was launched in 1789 at Rhode Island as President Washington. Home Riggs Popham purchased her at Calcutta and transferred to her the name and papers...
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and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy...
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