Siege of Havana
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The siege of Havana was the capture of the Spanish-held city of Havana, Cuba in 1762 as part of the war between Britain and Spain which formed part of the larger Seven Years' War. After the Spanish ab
The Capture of Havana, 1762, Taking the Town, 14 August Dominic Serres, 1775
The British expeditionary fleet
Bombardment of the Morro Castle, Havana, 1 July 1762 by Richard Paton
British siege guns before Morro Castle, by Dominic Serres
General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle,, styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British army officer and politician who served in the War of the Austrian Succession, Jacobite rising of 1745 and
Siege of Havana
…Pocock, with seven ships-of-the-line and a frigate and Commodore Keppel his second-in-command, was to transport a military force under the command of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle to the West Indies, to join the West Indies naval squadron, then under the command of Rear-Admiral Rodney, who was undertaking operations against…
Portrait by Francis Cotes, 1755