Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith was a British naval officer and politician. Serving in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of admiral in
Portrait by Robert Ker Porter, 1820
Smith participating in the destruction of the French fleet at Toulon in 1793
Smith being captured by the French off Le Havre on 18 April 1796
1796 portrait of Smith in the Temple Prison by Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
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Commander John Wesley Wright was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Wright's death in French captivity led to persistent
