John Colpoys
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Admiral Sir John Colpoys, was a Royal Navy officer who served in three wars but is most notable for being one of the catalysts of the Spithead Mutiny in 1797 after ordering his marines to fire on a de
Portrait by W. Savage, 1871
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery
HMS Hannibal (1786)
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HMS Hannibal was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1786, named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal. She is best known for having taken part in the Algeci
John Colpoys
…Fleet that was paid off a few months after he joined her in 1783. After seven years on half-pay, Colpoys was recalled in 1790 to command the guardship HMS Hannibal at Portsmouth. With the renewal of conflict with France in 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars, Colpoys was recalled to active service as a squadron…
Hannibal (centre-left) at the First Battle of Algeciras