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Sir William Sidney Smith. No age of sail commander divides opinion quite like Sir Sidney Smith. On the one hand he was an arrogant, pompous, spendthrift who was a nightmare to command. On the other, he was a brave,highly intelligent opponent of slavery who was feared by his French opponents. Smith was born in 1764, into the privileged ...
The master's log gives the weather as calm on 18 April. 28 For the mechanisms of prisoner exchanges during the revolutionary war, before Napoleon destroyed the process, see Michael Lewis, Napoleon and his British Captives (1962), ch. 2. 29 Berrow's Worcester Journal, 28 April 1796; Portsmouth City Record O ce [hereafter PCRO], CCS/15 (copy), Sidney Smith to John Smith ( father), 30 April 1796 ...
Other articles where Sir William Sidney Smith is discussed: Egypt: The French occupation and its consequences (1798–1805): Sir Sydney Smith, the British naval commander in the eastern Mediterranean, sponsored the convention, but in this he had exceeded his powers and was instructed by his superior officer, Admiral Lord Keith, to require the French to surrender as prisoners of war.
Sidney Smith. O almirante Sir William Sidney Smith, GCB, GCTE, KmstkSO, FRS, (21 de Junho de 1764 – 26 de Maio de 1840) foi um oficial da marinha Britânico. Foi promovido ao posto de almirante após servir nas guerras revolucionárias Estadunidense e Francesa.
6 de sept. de 2021 · Capt. Smith married, 10 July, 1832, at Dawlish, co. Devon, Lucy, daughter of J. Goss, Esq. ↑ Sir William Sidney Smith was born 21 June, 1764; and entered the Navy, in June, 1777, on board the Tortoise. Removing, in Jan. 1778, to the Unicorn 20, Capt. Ford, he assisted in that ship at the capture, after a close conflict of three hours, of the ...
21 de feb. de 2024 · He commanded in Berri, and escaped death by breaking out of a state prison. He accompanied Sir Sidney to England, at the time he effected his escape from the custody of the Directory, and afterwards to the coast of Syria, where he served as a volunteer. He died at Acre, of a fever, May 2d, 1799.
2 de feb. de 2007 · The life and correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, G.C.B. Bookreader Item Preview
