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William Sidney Smith, plus connu sous le nom usuel de Sidney Smith, né le 21 juin 1764 à Westminster, Londres et mort le 25 mai 1840 à Paris, est un amiral britannique. Marin de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et du début du XIXe siècle, il s'est notamment distingué au cours des guerres de la Grande-Bretagne et puis du Royaume-Uni contre la ...
William Sidney Smith. Sir William Sidney Smith ( Westminster, 21 giugno 1764 – Parigi, 26 maggio 1840) fu un ufficiale inglese della Marina britannica che combatté nella guerra d'indipendenza americana e nelle guerre rivoluzionarie francesi, divenendo ammiraglio . Napoleone Bonaparte, ricordandolo nelle sue Memorie, ebbe a dire di lui ...
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) is the forgotten man of the American and French revolutionary wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A contemporary of the much more famous Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, Sidney Smith (as he called himself) is the only person known to have almost been at both the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Reminiscing in later life and referring to ...
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.
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 ...
Sir Sidney Smith. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Admiral. Theatrical and self-centred but brave and energetic, Smith caught the public imagination in 1798 by his escape from the Temple prison in Paris, where he had been imprisoned by the French after his capture in a naval expedition off Le Havre. He was back in the public eye again in 1799 ...
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840) (Updated, April 2024) Over life-size marble statue, the sitter bare-headed, facing forwards but looking and imperiously pointing slightly down to his right with extended right arm. His left arm stretches back behind to support him on one of several pieces of ruined masonry and his left leg rests ...
