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    was involved in a number of amphibious operations such as the raids on Rochefort and Le Havre and the Siege of Louisbourg. He became well known for his...
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  • from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2021. de Rochefort, Simone (August 29, 2019). "Assassin's Creed Odyssey's free DLC is the...
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    Fontaines, vice-admiral of France, lieutenant général in Bretagne. René de Rochefort, baron de Frôlois, governor of Blésois. Jean de Vivonne, marquis de Pisany...
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    the Río de la Plata and Battle of Copenhagen of 1806–07, and attacked Rochefort in 1808. Stopford played an important part in the Battle of the Basque...
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    the series of naval descents on the French coast including the Raid on Rochefort in September 1757. Promoted to commodore, with his broad pennant in the...
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    the Order of the Bath (KB). In command next of the squadron blockading Rochefort, Sir Samuel Hood lost an arm during the action of 25 September 1806 against...
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    himself, that his portrait ever appeared in Vanity Fair, or that an exalted personage ever intervened fiercely in his affairs. The English colony in Brussels...
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    Benito Pérez Galdós, who wrote a tale about the battle of Bailén, where a personage, D. Santiago Fernández, describes sarcastically his participation in the...
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    (13 June 2008). The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time...
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  • part of the fleet sent under Edward Hawke to raid the French port of Rochefort in September that year. In March 1759 he took over command of the 74-gun...
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