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John Hawley Glover (906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Hawley Glover GCMG (24 February 1829 – 30 September 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland

HMS Queen Charlotte (1810) (294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She replaced the first Queen Charlotte

Charles Hotham (1,399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Sir Charles Hotham KCB (14 January 1806 – 31 December 1855) was Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 22 June 1854

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HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun Royal Navy ship sloop. She was launched in 1829 and surveyed the north-eastern coast of Australia under Francis Price Blackwood

Henry John Leeke (474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke, KCB, KH, DL (1 September 1792 – 26 February 1870) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord, Member of

Francis Augustus Collier (1,177 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier, CB, KCH (7 August 1785 – 28 October 1849) was a senior officer of the British Royal Navy during the early nineteenth

Charles Bullen (2,362 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Admiral Sir Charles Bullen GCB KCH (10 September 1769 – 2 July 1853) was a highly efficient and successful naval officer who served in the Royal Navy during

Robert Mends (950 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Captain Sir Robert Mends (c. 1767 – 4 September 1823) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, who

John Hayes (Royal Navy officer) (838 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Rear-Admiral John Hayes CB (1767 or 1775 – 7 April 1838) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Robert Hagan (Royal Navy officer) (207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Rear Admiral Sir Robert Hagan (3 November 1794 – 25 April 1863) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy. Robert was born in Magherafelt, the fifth

Henning von Holtzendorff (773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Franco-Prussian War and afterwards as a staff officer in the West Africa Squadron. Promoted to captain in 1897; he was present during the Boxer Rebellion

Postage stamps and postal history of Sierra Leone (609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Sierra Leone although examples from ships of the anti-slavery West Africa Squadron exist with local cancellations. The first stamp of Sierra Leone was

Bight of Benin (861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trading was made illegal for Britons—the Royal Navy created the West Africa Squadron in order to suppress and crush the slave trade. These efforts were

William Wordsworth Fisher (1,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he served in HMS Raleigh, flagship of the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Squadron, for three years from 1890 to 1893, before joining HMS Calypso in

Calabar River (1,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suppressing the trade by ships of other nations. Between 1807 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron seized around 1,600 ships involved in the slave trade. HMS Comus

German West Africa (3,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nachtigal and backed them up with naval force by dispatching the West Africa Squadron, Germany needed to secure international recognition of its position

James Cropper (abolitionist) (7,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

brother-in-law of Edward Cropper. Denman was a Commander in the West Africa Squadron, a Royal Navy squadron set up to intercept slave ships off the west