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COMMANDER // 1730–1805

Robert Kingsmill

admiralGreat Britain1 battle1 war

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17301805

17301740175017601770178017901800War of the First Coalition · 1792-1797Expédition d'Irlande — December 1, 1796 · Great Britain · War of the First Coalition

Active service 17961 battle across 1 war; first command at age 66.

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Admiral of the Blue Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Kingsmill was a contemporary and close friend of Horatio Nelson, and was one of the Royal Navy officers referred to as "The Conquerors of the Seas", illustrated in Piercy Roberts' 1800 engraving. He served with George Rodney in the West Indies, where he was wounded in battle, and with Augustus Keppel at the Battle of Ushant.

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