Edward Rotheram
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Captain Edward Rotheram, CB was a Royal Navy officer who served in American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During his service, Rotheram saw action at several major n
1803 portrait of Rotheram
Admiral Collingwood, Rotheram's commander at Trafalgar, who considered his subordinate "stupid"
The Atlantic campaign of May 1794 was a series of operations conducted by the Royal Navy's Channel Fleet against the French Navy's Atlantic Fleet, with the aim of preventing the passage of a strategic
The Glorious First of June, the campaign's culminating battle
Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, 1839 painting by Guérin
A view of the British fleet, in action with the French on 29 May 1794
The sinking of the Vengeur du Peuple, engraving by P. Ozanne