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Naval History of Great Britain - Vol I |
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1793 |
Colonies of the Different Powers |
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| Holland, | Cape of Good Hope ; settlements of Amsterdam, Acra, and Delmine, on the coast of Guinea. |
| Portugal, | Madeira; the Azores or Western islands; Cape de Verd islands ; island of St.-Thomas on the line ; Loango, St.-Paul, and a few other small trading forts. |
| Denmark, | A few small trading forts. |
| France, | Sénégal, Gorée, &c. |
| EAST INDIES. | |
| England | Greater part of the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; island of Pulo-Penang, and Bencoolen on the island of Sumatra ; chief part of New-Holland ; Andamin islands, in the bay of Bengal; St.-Helena. |
| Holland, | Batavia and several other settlements in the island of Java; Samanap on the island of Madura, and Malacca on the peninsula of that name ; Masulipatam on the coast of Coromandel, and Cochin on the coast of Malabar; Trincomaée, Pointe-de-Galle, and Columbo in the island of Ceylon; factories of Porca and Quilon in the Travancore country ; Amboyana, Banda, Ternante, &c. |
| Spain, | Philippine islands, and settlement of Manilla in the island of Leuconia. |
| Portugal, | Goa on the Malabar coast; Macao at the mouth of the Tigris on the coast of China. |
| Denmark, | Tranquebar, on the coast of Coromandel. |
| France, | Fort-Pondicherry on the coast of Coromandel ; factories of Mahé on the coast of Malabar; of Chandernagore, up the Ganges, also of Karica, Yanam, and a few others ; island of Mauritius, or Isle-de-France ; Isle-Bourbon ; Foul-Point on the island of Madagascar. |
NORTH AMERICA
We shall now proceed in our narrative of colonial occurrences, taking the different stations in the order in which they have just been named; North America, West Indies, Coast of Africa, and East Indies. In the station of North America is included that of Newfoundland; at which island, or rather at St.-John's, its principal port, the British naval force, on the breaking out of the war, consisted of the 64-gun ship Stately, Captain J. S. Smith, bearing the flag of Vice-admiral Sir Richard King, the 32-gun frigates Boston, Fox, and Cleopatra, and four or five small sloops. The first act of hostility in this quarter was the capture of the small fishing islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon, which had been taken from the French in 1778, and were injudiciously restored to them by the treaty of 1783.
Aware of the importance of these fishery islands, the British government, in a very few days after war had been declared, despatched orders to Halifax, Nova-Scotia, for their immediate seizure. In pursuance of those directions, Brigadier-general Ogilvie, with a detachment of the royal artillery, and 310 rank and file of the 4th and 6th regiments, embarked, on the 7th of May, in the British 28-gun frigate Alligator, Captain William Affleck, the Diligente armed schooner and three transports. On
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