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    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable...
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  • been named HMS Leopard after the leopard: HMS Leopard (1635) was a 34-gun ship launched in 1635 and captured by the Dutch in 1653. HMS Leopard (1659) was...
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    acquitted September 1, 1807 June 1807: Chesapeake-Leopard Affair: The British warship HMS Leopard (1790) captured and boarded the USS Chesapeake (1799)...
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  • HMS Janus was the Dutch fifth-rate Argo, built at the dockyard of the Amsterdam Admiralty (Naval District), and launched in 1790. HMS Phoenix captured...
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    held at the National Archives in Kew. HMS Leopard (1790) 50 gun ship of the line HMS Martin (1790) 16 gun sloop HMS Minotaur (1793) 74 gun ship of the line...
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    become a pressing issue and Humphreys, by then in command of the 50-gun HMS Leopard, was ordered to intercept the USS Chesapeake, which was suspected to...
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    under Captain Lawrence William Halsted, the 50-gun HMS Leopard, Pegasus and the brig-sloop HMS Sylph, all under the overall command of Halsted. The...
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  • Fitz Babbitt (category 1790 births)
    had charge of her quarterdeck guns on the occasion of the battle with HMS Leopard on 22 June 1807. He was appointed an acting lieutenant and ordered to...
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  • in command of HMS Thetis in the Mediterranean, receiving an honour from King Ferdinand of Sicily. In 1790 he was appointed to HMS Leopard, escorting a...
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  • in quick succession command of a group of Sea Fencibles, then HMS Leopard, and finally HMS Colossus in 1804. In Colossus he served in the English Channel...
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