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    HMS Placentia was the name-ship of her two vessel class, with both vessels being launched in 1789. John Henslow designed the small sloops for coastal...
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  • have borne the name HMS Placentia, after locations in Newfoundland, including Placentia Bay and the town of Placentia: HMS Placentia (1775) was a 6-gun...
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    though the survivors eventually made it to Placentia, where the Americans were put aboard the ship sloop HMS Fairy and taken to Old Mill Prison in England...
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    HMS Trepassey (or Trepassy) was the second vessel of her two vessel class, with both vessels being launched in 1789. John Henslow designed the small sloops...
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    achieved his first command, that of the tiny sloop HMS Placentia in 1789. By 1793 was serving on HMS Syren, which conveyed the Duke of York to the Netherlands...
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  • General Augustine Prevost at Savannah, Garth was taken prisoner on HMS Experiment. In 1789 he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment and in 1792...
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  • de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Governor general (1755–1760) Placentia, Newfoundland Governors Joseph de Monic, Governor (1697–1702) Daniel d'Auger...
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  • against England, Scotland, Denmark and the United Provinces. Battle of Placentia 16–21 September - France defeats England. Battle of Lagos 27 June – Near...
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  • Gulliver's Travels 1727 in literature – Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia; Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald; Conjugal Lewdness by Daniel Defoe...
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  • Wars) Battle of Cremona (200 BC) – 200 BC – Roman–Gallic wars Battle of Placentia (194 BC) – 194 BC – Roman–Gallic wars Battle of Mutina (193 BC) – 193...
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