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    The Capture of Sint Eustatius took place in February 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War when British army and naval forces under Lieutenant-General...
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    Sint Eustatius (/juˈsteɪʃəs/ yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt øːˈstaːtsijʏs] ), known locally as Statia (/ˈsteɪʃə/ STAY-shə), is an island in...
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    offices of the government. [citation needed] List of lighthouses in Sint Eustatius F. D. Roosevelt Airport St. Eustatius Church "Geodata 2001, Saba & Sint.Eustatius...
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    The plantations of Sint Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean) were primarily set up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by European settlers. Workers on...
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    University of St. Martin is located in Philipsburg. The University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine, founded in 1999, was previously located on Sint Eustatius...
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    George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    Jamaica Station, where he became involved in the controversial 1781 capture of Sint Eustatius. Later that year he briefly returned home suffering from ill health...
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  • under the name de Graaf. She was taken by the British at the capture of Sint Eustatius in February 1781 and commissioned into the Royal Navy. She was...
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    transferred commands to the 20-gun HMS Saint Eustatius which had been taken at the capture of Sint Eustatius, at which Carnegie was present. On 7 April...
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  • sloop of war of the Royal Navy, launched in 1778 in India. Panther participated in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at the Capture of Sint Eustatius, in the...
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  • This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War. Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties. Major campaigns, theaters...
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  • Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    Rodney in the operations against the Dutch Islands, including the Capture of Sint Eustatius, and was detached under Sir Samuel Hood to blockade Martinique...
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    the Siege of Savannah, the Invasion of Tobago, and the Capture of Sint Eustatius. Detachments of the regiment were assigned to the French Fleet under Admiral...
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    Saba (Dutch), Sint Eustatius "Statia" (Dutch), and Saint Kitts and Nevis (independent, formerly British). With the exception of Nevis, all of these islands...
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    HMS Monarch (1765) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    engaged at the Capture of Sint Eustatius, Action of 4 February 1781, the Battle of Saint Kitts, the Battle of the Saintes and, the Battle of the Mona Passage...
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    Saba (island) (redirect from Island of Saba)
    Together with Bonaire and Sint Eustatius it forms the BES islands, also known as the Caribbean Netherlands. Saba has a land area of 13 square kilometres (5...
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    War of Independence, the brigade participated in the Capture of Grenada, the Siege of Savannah, the Invasion of Tobago, the Capture of Sint Eustatius, and...
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    HMS Prince William (1780) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    took part in most of the battles there during the American War of Independence, including the capture of Sint Eustatius and the battles of Fort Royal, Saint...
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    HMS Sandwich (1759) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    December. On 3 February 1781 Sandwich took part in the Capture of Sint Eustatius, and in August of that year Young was replaced in command by Captain Sylverius...
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    Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so. February 3 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War – Capture of Sint Eustatius: British...
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  • of Torrence's Tavern 1–2 February - British victory over the USA Capture of Sint Eustatius 3 February - British forces capture Dutch Sint Eustatius Action...
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    Johannes de Graaff (category Lieutenant Governors of Sint Eustatius)
    Governor of Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles representing the Dutch West India Company during the difficult time of the American...
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    command of Admiral George Brydges Rodney had captured the Dutch colony of Sint Eustatius during the opening stages of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a conflict...
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    HMS Arab (1798) (category Captured ships)
    participated in the capture of Sint Eustatius and Saba. Under Captains Perkins and Maxwell she also took a considerable number of prizes. After the Royal...
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  • the unit's honour if they were captured. To prevent this, the colours were protected in the field by a colour party of young officers and experienced...
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  • HMS Stormont (1781) (category Captured ships)
    Admiral Rodney's British fleet captured on 3 February 1781 at the capture of Sint Eustatius. She was one of nine captured American vessels that the British...
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    Golden Rock African Burial Ground (category Sint Eustatius)
    Colonial Context of Sint Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean)". ResearchGate. Retrieved January 10, 2023. St. Eustatius Government Report of the Statia Heritage...
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    Arthur Dillon (1750–1794) (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    and his regiment participated in the Invasion of Tobago, the Capture of Sint Eustatius, and the Siege of Brimstone Hill. With the victory at Brimstone...
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    Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    where he took part in the capture of Sint Eustatius in 1781. Making post captain on 8 February 1781, he took temporary command of HMS Invincible and fought...
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    and Sint Maarten became constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius became special municipalities of the...
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    Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so. February 3 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War – Capture of Sint Eustatius: British...
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