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  • Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 Ferrol 23597571911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10 — FerrolFERROL [El Ferrol], a seaport of north-western Spain...
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  • and was employed in the following year in the blockade of the ports of Ferrol and Corunna, in which (amongst other ports) ships were preparing for the...
    290 bytes (621 words) - 13:59, 29 April 2016
  • John Borlase Warren [q.v.] in the expeditions to Quiberon Bay and against Ferrol. The Ajax afterwards joined the Mediterranean fleet under Lord Keith, with...
    369 bytes (982 words) - 06:36, 30 December 2020
  • beautiful valley at the head of a land-locked bay 23 miles northeast of Ferrol. The harbor is well sheltered, but shallow, and has no wharves; the town...
    550 bytes (76 words) - 12:41, 16 December 2020
  • the Dotterell brig, about Nov. 1808; and to act in the Tonnant 80, off Ferrol, about June, 1809: his post commission bears date Oct. 21, 1810. Captain...
    522 bytes (91 words) - 17:15, 21 February 2024
  • to Ferrol, leaving behind three of the dullest sailers; and thus when on 9 Aug. Calder, with a squadron again reduced to nine ships, came off Ferrol, he...
    435 bytes (1,337 words) - 15:33, 25 December 2021
  • products of the fertile country around are important. The only means of communication with the interior is by the road to Cabreiros, for Lugo and Ferrol....
    294 bytes (106 words) - 13:07, 16 December 2020
  • brigs, and attended, as Midshipman, the expeditions of 1800 to Quiberon and Ferrol. In May, 1802, at which period the Captain, in command of Capt. Chas. Boyles...
    200 bytes (448 words) - 11:18, 6 September 2021
  • the headstreams of the Miño, and at the junction of the main roads from Ferrol and Mondoñedo to the city of Lugo. Pop. (1900) 13,572. Villalba is the chief...
    294 bytes (115 words) - 21:21, 5 June 2022
  • Toriñana in the extreme west. The principal bays are those of Santa Marta, Ferrol and Corunna, on the north; Corcubion, Muros y Noya and Arosa, on the west...
    321 bytes (496 words) - 07:03, 1 February 2022
  • sloop. Captain Micajah Malbon, in the expedition to Holland, Quiberon, Ferrol, and Egypt. His first commission bears date May 19, 1808. We subsequently...
    515 bytes (172 words) - 13:56, 21 February 2024
  • co-operating with the patriots of that country. After the evacuation of Ferrol and Corunna, by the French Marshal Ney, June 21st and 22d, the proximity...
    492 bytes (2,945 words) - 12:49, 21 February 2024
  • to the Walcheren, he was much employed, during that period, off Brest, Ferrol,and Corunna, as also in the Baltic and Tagus. In the course of 1813 he successively...
    190 bytes (192 words) - 08:00, 6 September 2021
  • during which period he appears to have been employed at the blockade of Ferrol and of Toulon, as also, for 18 months, of a French and Venetian squadron...
    197 bytes (200 words) - 00:44, 6 September 2021
  • Fernando is one of the three principal naval ports of Spain; together with Ferrol and Cartagena it is governed by an admiral who has the distinctive title...
    294 bytes (238 words) - 21:06, 5 June 2022
  • Capt. Philip Wilkinson, under whom, while returning with despatches from Ferrol, he was wrecked on the southernmost part of the Saintes, on the night of...
    208 bytes (210 words) - 12:39, 6 September 2021
  • Midshipman, on board the Hero 74, Capt. Hon. Alan Hyde Gardner, employed off Ferrol, and – with the exception of two short intervals in the years 1806 and 1812...
    214 bytes (210 words) - 02:13, 6 September 2021
  • Laforey. In that ship, after serving, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, off Ferrol and Rochefort, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, and on 21 Oct. 1805 was...
    202 bytes (236 words) - 09:17, 6 September 2021
  • April, 1807, of the greater part of a convoy of 30 vessels, passing from Ferrol to Bilboa, in escort of several gun-boats; and, on 12 May, 1810, was present...
    194 bytes (238 words) - 00:23, 6 September 2021
  • Tonnant 80, commanded by the same Captain, he served off Rochefort and Ferrol until May, 1804. He then joined the Culloden 74, on board which ship Sir...
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