# onthisday claughtonpellew royalnavy ageofsail maritime otd

1816 a combined & Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves.

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2022-08-27

The Blockade of Toulon, 1810-14: Pellew's Action, 5 November 1813.
Painting by Thomas Luny (1759-1837), 1830.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund (ID: BHC0604)

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2021-09-07

1816 a combined & Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves.

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2021-08-27

The Bombardment of Algiers by George Hyde Chamber. In 1816 Sir Edward Pellew, then an admiral, was sent in command of an Anglo-Dutch fleet to “persuade” the Dey of Algiers to stop slave trading. It would be Pellew’s final battle.

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2020-07-10

Droits de l'Homme fighting Amazon & Indefatigable 1797 - by Le Guen

The action that made Edward Pellew famous. Fought in a storm, the frigates used their manoeuvrability to disable their larger opponent, till she was wrecked on the shore, with huge loss of life

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2018-09-27

"Bombardment of Algiers, 1816" by G Chambers

This action was Sir Edward Pellew's last battle. The British had band the Atlantic Slave Trade, but the Dey of Algiers was still trading in Christian slaves. An Anglo/Dutch fleet made him think differently.

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2018-06-15

"A biography that reads like an adventure novel" British naval hero Sir Edward Pellew b. 1757 https://t.co/diJBYPVkaf

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2017-04-20