Manley Dixon
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Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, KCB was a prominent Royal Navy officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Born into a military family in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Dixon joined t
Dixon as a vice-admiral
Action of 31 March 1800
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The action of 31 March 1800 was a naval engagement of the War of the Second Coalition fought between a Royal Navy squadron and a French Navy ship of the line off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. By Mar
Manley Dixon
…to the Siege of Malta later the same year, Dixon remained off the island for two years, capturing the French ship of the line Guillaume Tell at the action of 31 March 1800. After the Peace of Amiens, Dixon remained in various active commands but saw no action and later retired, advancing to a Knight Commander of the Order…
The Capture of the ‘Guillaume Tell’, 30 March 1800 Thomas Luny, 1835
The capture of the 'Guillaume Tell', 31 March 1800 by Nicholas Pocock