Flamborough Head, Battle of, 1779
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Name (Latin)
Flamborough Head, Battle of, 1779
Other forms of name
nne Flamborough Head (England), Battle of, 1779
Coordinates
-0.11944444 -0.11944444 54.1625 54.1625 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing place name
United States
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q2888502
Library of congress:
sh 89003348
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Schaeper, T.J. John Paul Jones and the battle off Flamborough Head, 1989.
- Americana.
- Britannica.
- Lippincott.
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Serapis 9790
Robert Dodd
/ After Richard Paton
, Public domain
File:John Paul Jones2.jpg
Guttenberg, Carl, 1743-1790, engraver. From a drawing by C. J. Notté.[2], Public domain
File:Jpj-corsair.jpg
Unknown author, Public domain
File:Pearson Coconut Cup 1780.JPG
Spencer P. Klein, CC BY 3.0
File:The action between the Serapis, capt. Pearson, the Countess of Scarborough, and Paul Jones’s Squadron. R.Paton - K325.jpg
Richard Paton
, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
The Battle of Flamborough Head was a naval battle that took place on 23 September 1779 in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between a combined Franco-American squadron, led by Continental Navy officer John Paul Jones, and two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy. It became one of the most celebrated naval actions of the war in America, despite its relatively small size and a considerable dispute over what had actually occurred.
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