 | Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy commander who saw service against the French during... 20 KB (2,383 words) - 04:26, 23 January 2024 |
police administration. Popham was born on 5 July 1745, the fourth son of Joseph Popham of Gibraltar and Mary Riggs. Popham's younger brother was the... 7 KB (663 words) - 19:31, 25 October 2022 |
 | William Pitt, Lord Henry Melville, Francisco de Miranda and Sir Home Riggs Popham. Popham did not believe a complete military occupation of South America was... 35 KB (4,135 words) - 23:29, 8 February 2024 |
Popham of Littlecote House, Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1853 George Popham (1550–1608), pioneering colonist in Maine born in Somerset, England Home Riggs... 2 KB (277 words) - 11:05, 8 January 2022 |
 | Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), who developed the Signal Code adopted by the Navy in 1803. Penelope Popham; Elinor Popham; Elizabeth Popham (d.1637)... 25 KB (2,870 words) - 03:20, 11 March 2024 |
 | in 1866 as a handheld version of the optical telegraph system of Home Riggs Popham used on land, and its later improvement by Charles Pasley. The land system... 20 KB (1,575 words) - 09:31, 15 April 2024 |
 | may have been Cotentin. In May 1798 Harpy participated in Sir Home Riggs Popham's expedition to Ostend to destroy the sluice gates of the Ostend-Bruge... 24 KB (3,179 words) - 09:08, 19 November 2023 |
 | the Chunar Fort. A small armed force was collected under Major Home Riggs Popham and Chait Singh was eventually evicted from his control of neighboring... 21 KB (2,765 words) - 05:41, 19 April 2024 |
 | vessels under the command of Cmdre. Home Riggs Popham, assembled from two fleets out of Cork and Falmouth. Popham took the 64-gun HMS Diadem as his flagship... 25 KB (2,898 words) - 18:56, 21 April 2024 |
 | America, then an ally of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Home Riggs Popham had orchestrated an expedition against South America without the British... 28 KB (2,774 words) - 02:03, 20 March 2024 |
 | the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Rear Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy commander... 14 KB (1,634 words) - 14:14, 21 March 2024 |
 | is a reference to 1803 maritime communications by Rear Admiral Home Riggs Popham, the symbol on the flag meaning "I can spare what you asked for". The... 45 KB (5,143 words) - 03:15, 29 March 2024 |
of the expedition under General Sir David Baird and Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham that would in 1806 capture the Dutch Cape Colony. On 11 March she and... 12 KB (1,009 words) - 07:42, 29 January 2024 |
unprotected. Grey put forward the plan on the recommendation of Captain Home Riggs Popham of the Royal Navy, who suggested that an amphibious landing be made at... 20 KB (2,300 words) - 21:12, 15 April 2024 |
 | Napoleon. Home Riggs Popham was commissioned by prime minister Pitt in 1805 to study the plans proposed by Miranda to the British Government, Popham then persuaded... 55 KB (6,904 words) - 08:42, 29 March 2024 |
 | Oct 1806 Richard Wilson Whig Robert Stopford Whig May 1807 Sir Home Riggs Popham Tory Robert Alexander Crickitt Tory Oct 1812 John Round Tory Jul 1818... 179 KB (2,645 words) - 13:17, 25 January 2024 |
 | surrender of the colony. The naval commander of the expedition, Admiral Home Riggs Popham then conceived the idea of occupying the Spanish Plate River colonies... 76 KB (9,979 words) - 11:03, 24 April 2024 |
 | Prince of Wales 98 (flag of Admiral James Gambier, 1st Captain Sir Home Riggs Popham, 2nd Captain Adam Mackenzie) Pompee 74 (Vice-Admiral Henry Edwyn Stanhope... 38 KB (4,507 words) - 22:04, 22 February 2024 |
 | Auchmuty's troops to Buenos Aires, where he would relieve Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, who, with troops under William Carr Beresford, had captured Buenos Aires... 9 KB (918 words) - 11:13, 26 September 2023 |
 | tried to invade the area of the Rio de la Plata, at the command of Home Riggs Popham and William Carr Beresford, and John Whitelocke. The invasions were repelled... 107 KB (10,852 words) - 23:49, 18 April 2024 |
 | with William Middleton Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1806–1807 With: Richard Wilson Succeeded by Sir Home Riggs Popham with Robert Alexander Crickitt... 13 KB (1,084 words) - 22:31, 14 November 2023 |
 | in 1831. On April 20, 1796, he married Maria Louisa Popham, niece of Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, at St. Mary's in Fort St. George. They had two sons... 6 KB (705 words) - 12:58, 3 May 2023 |
Etrusco was launched in 1789 at Rhode Island as President Washington. Home Riggs Popham purchased her at Calcutta and transferred to her the name and papers... 8 KB (611 words) - 06:10, 25 July 2023 |
 | successful campaigns; the Cape was invaded and captured by Sir Home Riggs Popham in January 1806 and the island of Java by Sir Edward Pellew in a campaign... 29 KB (3,620 words) - 03:13, 13 February 2024 |
 | regular regiments. While a British transport fleet under Admiral Home Riggs Popham sailed to Reval to collect the Russian contingent, the mustering of the... 50 KB (6,862 words) - 13:42, 25 April 2024 |
 | in a series of brief but successful campaigns; the Cape by Sir Home Riggs Popham in January 1806 and the Dutch island of Java by Sir Edward Pellew in... 34 KB (4,387 words) - 14:11, 4 August 2023 |
taking the Dutch colony. The lists below are those that Commodore Home Riggs Popham provided to William Marsden, First Secretary of the Admiralty. These... 7 KB (382 words) - 21:59, 18 December 2022 |
Charles Howard (1774–1816) Abraham Mills (c.1750–1828), geologist Home Riggs Popham (1762–1820), Royal Navy officer Apollon Moussin Puschkin (d. 1805), Russian... 4 KB (220 words) - 01:27, 30 January 2023 |
 | or sending in a fleet of fireships. On 20 July 1804 Pitt and Sir Home Riggs Popham met with American inventor Robert Fulton. Fulton had been working in... 14 KB (1,578 words) - 02:55, 30 June 2023 |
to deploy in Northern Spain under the command of the squadron of Home Riggs Popham. The battalion disembarked at Zumaia on 18 August, and joined up with... 24 KB (3,283 words) - 09:27, 30 November 2023 |