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Letter from Admiral Hugh Seymour to Vice-Admiral William Waldegrave, 19 September
1796
, on dispute between
1796-09-19 - 1796-09-19
WDG/6/4
Letters received 19 January
1796
-27 April 1812 including ones from Sir Morton Eden, John McArthur, Vice-Adm
1796-01-01 - 1812-12-31
MKH/242
Original letters and dispatches received by Minto from diplomats and naval officers: Navy
1796
-97, Navy
1795-1797-12-31
ELL/137
Joseph Brame [consul] to Nelson, Genoa, 8 October
1796
, communicated your letter and received the complaint
1796-10-08 - ?
CRK/2/109
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, San Fiorenzo Bay, 15 October [
1796
], on the withdrawal from Porto Ferraio
1796-10-15 - ?
CRK/11/84
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, 14 April [
1796
], on his conversation with Baron de Meleam with the testimony
1796-04-14 - ?
CRK/11/54
Captain Vaithen, Captain of a French privateer, to Nelson on board the MINERVE, [no date,
1796
, in French
CRK/13/109
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, San Fiorenzo Bay, 15 October [
1796
], on the embarkation at Bastia, in
1796-10-15 - ?
CRK/11/85
Elliot to Nelson, Bastia, 12 August
1796
, asks whether prizes to be referred to the Admiralty court in
1796-08-12 - ?
CRK/5/21
List of prizes, November 1795 to May
1796
, totalling £1758.18.5, and names of ships entitled to share
1795-11 - 1796-05
CRK/16/30
George John, second Earl Spencer to Nelson, Admiralty, 15 January
1796
, impossible to grant Nelson a
1796-01-15 - ?
CRK/11/36
correspondence from Nelson to different individuals such as Sir Francis Drake and Robert Calder, 1795 -
1796
1795-11 -02 -
CRK/14/21-40
Commanders in chronological order, 1810-1815, and Lieutenants Superannuated with the rank of Commander
1796
1951
LES/5/4/9
Sir Francis Drake to Nelson, Milan, 6 March
1796
, views on French armament at Toulon, hopes of Sir John
1796-03-06 - ?
CRK/4/106
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 22 August [
1796
], reversals of Austrians and plans with Viceroy
1796-08-22
CRK/11/71
Hood to Nelson, Wimpole Street, 23 February
1796
, news of the West India expedition, end to war unlikely
1796-02-23
CRK/6/164
Castiglione (Genoese Secretary of State) to unknown, Genoa, 11 June
1796
, [in Italian] about a Genoese
1796-06-11 - ?
CRK/4/124
Queen of Naples to Lady Hamilton, [
1796
], with news of the arrival of 5 letters from Spain in October
1796 - 1796
CRK/21/7
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 7 June [
1796
], Captain Smith to return to England, arrangements
1796-06-07 - ?
CRK/11/60
and order of sailing "given under my hand on board His Majesty's Ship ARETHUSA at Spithead January 2
1796
1796-01-02 - ?
PLT/37
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 1 July [
1796
], in his absence to leave HMS MELEAGER and HMS
1796-07-01 - ?
CRK/11/65
An account of the sick and wounded prisoners of war at Port Martinique, March
1796
- September 1802 showing
1796-03 - 1802-09
CRK/16/34
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Porquerolle, 27 April [
1796
], wish to send transports for water for
1796-04-27
CRK/11/56
Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 11 May [
1796
], on prospects for Austria, fears at Leghorn,
1796-05-11 - ?
CRK/11/57
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