The action of 31 May 1762 was a minor naval engagement that took place off the Spanish coast off Cadiz, between a British Royal Naval frigate and a sloop...
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of Portugal 5 May-24 November - Anglo-Portuguese victory, Spanish obliterated Action of 31 May 1762 - British defeat Spain Battle of Harnaulgarh May -...
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Spanish frigate Hermione (category Maritime incidents in 1762)
18-gun sloop-of-war Favourite under Captain Philemon Pownoll, off the coast of Spain near the port of Cadiz in the action of 31 May 1762. The British...
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Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath)
fleets from sailing. He was installed as Knight of the Bath in May 1761 and, in the action of 31 May 1762, his fleet chased down and captured the Spanish...
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was captured on 23 May by the French Navy. Hermione ( Spanish Navy): The 28-gun frigate was captured in the action of 31 May 1762 by the Royal Navy. Reyna...
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The Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762) between 5 May and 24 November, was a military episode in the wider Fantastic War in which Spain and France were...
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Richard Wright (painter) (category Year of death uncertain)
the coast of Spain near the port of Cadiz in the action of 31 May 1762. His most notable work is a sea-piece, for which he obtained a premium of fifty guineas...
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Cross Deep House (category Former houses in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
being French, it was the Spanish frigate Hermione captured in the action of 31 May 1762. In 1764 Stafford Briscoe (1713–1789), a goldsmith and jeweller...
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Bentham. 16 April 1762. pp. 74–107 – via Internet Archive. Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict...
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The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War...
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