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The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire ... from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time ... Together with the Sovereigns and Rulers of Europe, from the Foundation of Their Respective States; the Peerage of England and Great Britain Original 1851
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destroyed the battery while boats from both ships boarded the privateer. Her crew had abandoned the vessel but fired from the shore where two field pieces joined them. Unable to move the prize, the British blew her up. The privateer was armed with one long 18-pounder on a pivot carriage and two
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In 1813 Thomas Huskisson married Elizabeth Wedge (1788–1873), daughter of Francis Wedge of Forton, Staffordshire, and had 6 children, including William Milbanke Huskisson, of the
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Huskisson was promoted to commander on 19 January 1809, but did not find out about his promotion until May, at which time he transferred to command the
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was in the West Indies. She served as the flagship in the Leeward Islands from November 1819 when Huskisson was promoted to
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His brother John Huskisson was commissioned in 1798 into the Army and served with the 51st Regiment in
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and put him to cruising off San Domingo. There he rescued a gentleman who had fallen afoul of
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accounting for two dead and six wounded, one mortally. In February 1810
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in 1805. In early 1808 Lieutenant Huskisson commissioned the schooner
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Huskisson became Paymaster of the Navy in 1827 and was admitted to
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MP, who married Emily Milbanke, the youngest daughter of Admiral
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Huskisson joined the Royal Navy in 1800 and saw action at the
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British-supported and unsuccessful attempted invasion of the
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Index

Eastry
Kent
Upper Deal
Kent
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Royal Navy
Royal Navy
Admiral
Pelorus
Garland
Euryalus
Leeward Islands Station
French Revolutionary Wars
Trinidad
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Cape Finisterre
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Royal Navy
William Huskisson
Battle of Trafalgar
HMS Defence
Fleur de la Mer
Jamaica station
Melpomene
Henri Christophe
Cartagena
Miranda's
Captaincy General of Venezuela

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