Philip Charles Durham
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Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, GCB was a Royal Navy officer whose service in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars was lengthy, distin
Durham in 1843, by John Wood
Signature of Captain Durham on a document after Trafalgar
Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham, by Sir Francis Grant about 1830. National Galleries Scotland.
Admiral Sir Philip H Calderwood Durham (1763-1845), by John Wood 1844, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
In the Battle of Cape Finisterre off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from
Painting of the battle by William Anderson
Defiance, Windsor Castle, Prince of Wales, Repulse, Raisonable, and Glory, an engraving after Thomas Whitcombe
Day after the action – British frigates have two Spanish prizes, the Firme and the San Rafael under tow on the right. Painting by William Anderson