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    Brooks (or Brook, Brookes, or Bruz) was a British slave ship launched at Liverpool in 1781. She became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788...
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  • Aurora, but the two ships separated. Belisarius was under the command of Captain James Munro, when HMS Medea captured her on 7 August 1781, off the Delaware...
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    her and taken her into Gorée. Aggie (1777 ship) was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy and placed...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1781 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1781. "American Privateer sloop 'Alexander' (1781)". Threedecks...
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    Zong massacre (redirect from Zong (ship))
    slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781. The William Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship as part...
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    Active-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Fabian at E. Cowes launched her in 1781, and she saw action in the American War of Independence as well as during...
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  • Nichol to N.Brooks, her owner from Jarret Jr to Williams, and her trade from London–South Seas to London–Cape of Good Hope. Captain Nicholas Brooks acquired...
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    HMS Lively (1756) (category Post ships of the Royal Navy)
    1779 she was the lead ship in a small flotilla sent from Martinique to capture British-controlled Saint Vincent. On 29 July 1781, Captain Skeffington Lutwidge's...
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  • campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781) Southern theater of the American...
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    formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown. Lincoln served from 1781 to 1783 as the first United States Secretary of War. While Secretary of War...
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    Act 1725 (12 Geo. 1. c. 4 (I)) State Debts Act 1781 (21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 20 (I)) Leases by Schools Act 1781 (21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 27 (I)) ? ? 17 & 18 Chas...
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    1913 1781 My Hero from "The Chocolate Soldier Elizabeth Spencer & Chorus 1913 1782 Garland of Old Fashioned Roses Manuel Romain 1913 1783 Ship of My...
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    a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1781. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...
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    at Newport, and shortly afterwards was blockaded by the British. In early 1781, General George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau planned an attack...
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    Peter Chardon Brooks (January 6, 1767 – January 1, 1849) was a wealthy Massachusetts merchant. Brooks born in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay, on January...
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  • Carol Platt Valenzuela. Murdered 40 years 1974 Brooks Bracewell 12 United States of America 12-year-old Brooks Bracewell and 14-year-old Georgia Caroline...
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    marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless...
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    p. 109 Puls (2008), p. 110 N. Brooks, pp. 121–124 N. Brooks, pp. 125–127 N. Brooks, p. 130 N. Brooks, p. 134 N. Brooks, pp. 136–137 Callahan (1958), pp...
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  • Captain Pointer, bound for the East Indies, put into Limerick on 9 November 1781, having lost her mainmast and topsails. A report from Limerick dated 31 January...
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    increased colonial support for independence. Battle of Guilford Court House (1781), American Revolutionary War: in this short battle, the outnumbered British...
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    Battle of Cowpens (category 1781 in South Carolina)
    an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between American Patriot forces...
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    Independence on July 4, 1776. The Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781 to form the Congress of the Confederation. Under the leadership of General...
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    Richard Brooks (editor), Atlas of World Military History. p. 108 Andrew Uffindell, Great Generals of the Napoleonic Wars. p. 15 Richard Brooks (editor)...
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    a French privateer. She was recaptured by Brooks, a British slave ship. Columbus ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the French privateer L'Antoinette...
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    ed. (1900). "Yates, Joseph Brooks" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "Joseph Brooks Yates, 21st Jan 1780 – 12th...
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    task force eventually comprised 127 ships: 43 Royal Navy vessels, 22 Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships, and 62 merchant ships. The retaking of the Falkland Islands...
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    www.nts.org.uk. National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Brooks, Libby (30 May 2007). "Scotland's other national drink". The Guardian. OCLC 60623878...
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    were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side...
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    1766 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796...
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    Monmouth and Newport. He was on the staff of General Lafayette in 1780 and 1781, became an adjutant in the Corps of Light Infantry, then transferred to the...
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