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 1st Sept 1814 Avon 18
taken by USS Wasp 22 off Ushant
2nd Sept 1800 Alexandria capitulates to Admiral Lord Keith in Foudroyant
3rd Sept 1806 Flying
Fish and others capture the fort overlooking Batabano, Cuba, thereby
taking six privateers at once
4th Sept 1804 USS
Intrepid (Lt Somers) explodes during attack on Tripoli which then
fails
5th Sept 1800 Malta
surrenders; Capt Ball (one of Nelson’s band of brothers)
appointed governor and was so loved by the people they wept in the
streets when he died
5th Sept 1813 USS
Enterprise takes HM brig Boxer off Maine
7th Sept 1807 Danish
Fleet of 70 ships surrenders to Admiral Gambier, including 18
ships-of-the-line and 10 frigates
8th Sept 1811 Hotspur in furious action sinks 1 brig and drives 2 others on to the rocks
off Cape Barfleur
10th Sept 1813 American Lake Squadron defeats British on Lake Erie
11th Sept 1793 Capt
Nelson of Agamemnon meets Emma, Lady Hamilton for the first time
14th Sept 1805 Vice
Admiral the Viscount Nelson sailed from Portsmouth for the last time
- “I had their cheers before, now I have their hearts!”
14th Sept 1814 Rear
Admiral Cochrane bombards Fort McHenry. During this action, on the
deck of HMS Minden words are set to English drinking song ‘Anacreon’
which later becomes US national anthem (‘Star Spangled Banner’)
16th Sept 1795 Cape
of Good Hope captured by Lord Keith
22nd Sept 1797 Mutineers deliver up Hermione to Spanish at La Guaira after murdering
the sadistic Captain Pigot and officers.
29th Sept 1758
Horatio Nelson born at Burnham Thorpe rectory, Norfolk
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