Siege of Bastia
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The siege of Bastia was a combined British and Corsican military operation during the early stages of the French Revolutionary Wars. The Corsican people had risen up against the French garrison of the
A Southern View of Bastia in the Island of Corsica from on board His Majesty's ship Victory during the Siege of that Town in May 1794 Ralph Willett Miller, c. 1795
Portrait of Jean-Pierre Lacombe-Saint-Michel
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Admiral of the Red Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of An
Siege of Bastia
…people had risen up against the French garrison of the island in 1793, and sought support from the British Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Hood. After initial delays in the autumn, Hood had supplied a small expeditionary force which had successfully driven the French out of the port of San…
Portrait by James Northcote, 1784
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery