Duckworth’s Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806 by Nicholas Pocock

Wonderful painting of the Battle of San Domingo (6 Feb 1806) by Nicholas Pocock, now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Vice Admiral Duckworth’s dispatch after the battle was printed in the London Gazette on 24 March 1806.

Duckworth’s Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806 by Nicholas Pocock

OTDIH 18 Oct 1775 A Royal Navy squadron under Captain Henry Mowat burned Portland, Maine

A Royal Navy squadron under Captain Henry Mowat burned Falmouth, Massachusetts (site of the modern city of Portland, Maine) on 18 October 1775.