Ralph Delaval
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Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval was a Royal Navy officer. He was a member of a junior branch of the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Delaval was born at Dissington Hall, Ponteland, an estat
c. 1692 portrait of Delaval
Battle of Lagos (1693)
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The Battle of Lagos was fought during the Nine Years' War on 27 June 1693, when a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke near Lagos Bay in Portu
Ralph Delaval
…Shovell replaced Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford as commander-in-chief. However, in the summer the French isolated and inflicted severe damage on the Smyrna convoy near Lagos, Portugal, for which Delaval, Killigrew and Shovell were severely criticised. A censure motion was laid in the English House of Commons…
Painting of the battle by Théodore Gudin