Robert Linzee
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Admiral of the Blue Robert Linzee was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Admiral Robert Linzee 1740 1804
Spanish watercolour depicting the capture of most of the merchants in Sir John Moutray's convoy
The Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783, shows Hood's HMS Barfleur, centre, attacking the French flagship Ville de Paris, right.
Battle of the Mona Passage
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The Battle of the Mona Passage was fought on 19 April 1782 between the British and French navies during the American Revolutionary War. A British fleet under Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir Samuel Hood e
Robert Linzee
…the line despite the loss of one of his ships. He saw action in several important battles, commanding a ship at the Battle of the Saintes and at the Battle of the Mona Passage. Left without a ship after the peace, he briefly commissioned a ship during the Spanish Armament, but paid her off after the crisis passed. He was back…
Painting of the battle
Lithograph of the battle by Dominic Serres
Caton and Jason engaging Valiant during the battle