James Lucas Yeo
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Sir James Lucas Yeo, KCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Born in Southampton, Hampshire, he joined the British navy at the age
1810 portrait of Yeo by Adam Buck
A scene on Lake Ontario – United States sloop of war Gen. Pike, Commodore Chauncey, and the British sloop of war Wolfe, Sir James Lucas Yeo, preparing for action, 28 September 1813
Yeo Hall, Royal Military College of Canada
Sir James Lucas Yeo plaque at the Royal Military College of Canada
HMS St Lawrence (1814)
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HMS St Lawrence was a 112-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Built on the lake at the Royal Navy dockyard in Kingston, Upper Canada,
James Lucas Yeo
…reinforced by two frigates built on Point Frederick. During the final months of the war, Yeo ensured British control of the lake by the 1814 launch of St. Lawrence, a 112-gun first rate ship of the line built in Kingston specifically for use on the lake, a three-decker man-of-war, and he had two more building. The…
Illustration of HMS St Lawrence