The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to...
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The office of Commander-in-Chief, North America was a military position of the British Army. Established in 1755 in the early years of the Seven Years'...
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(1723–1789) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North American Station. The historian David Syrett presented a study of Gambier...
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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
transports in the proposed invasion of Britain. He was appointed in Commander-in-Chief, North American Station in July 1767. He returned to England in October...
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operational forces, stationed within the North American territories. The commander of NORAD concurrently serves as the commander of United States Northern...
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A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch. As a technical...
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Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
fifth-rate HMS Unite in the Mediterranean Fleet. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North American Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. He also...
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Alexander Cochrane (section In the Caribbean)
of the Bath for his services in 1806. In 1814 he became vice admiral and commander-in-chief of the North American Station, led British naval forces during...
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John Borlase Warren (category Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain)
sea. In 1806 he captured a large French warship, the Marengo, at the action of 13 March 1806. He was commander-in-chief on the North American Station from...
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Nore Station or Nore Command. The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary and River Medway. In due course the Commander-in-Chief became...
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