# 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

The first single ship action of the Revolutionary war and the first Royal Navy victory, fought off Start Point in Devon. The Nymphe, commanded by Edward Pellew, defeated the French frigate Cléopâtre.

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2019-02-27

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