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Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.
Admiral Lord Collingwood, naval commander who took control of the British fleet after Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar. This great figure of British naval history was a close friend of Nelson…
Collingwood was based at English Harbour in Antigua, charged with stemming the now-illegal trade between the islands and the new United States. His zealous enforcement of the so-called Navigation Acts won him few friends among the merchants of the Caribbean.
Oct 20, 2024 · Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was a British naval commander who was Horatio Nelson’s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar and held the Mediterranean command thereafter. Collingwood was sent to sea at the age of 12 and served for several years on the home station.
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Feb 28, 2005 · Admiral Lord Collingwood was a colossus of a man, but few remember his crucial role in Britain's naval history. Modest Collingwood's name has sunk with little trace. He fired the first...
Ultimately however, Collingwood will perhaps be best known for the series of despatches sent to their Lordships at the Admiralty in the days immediately after the Battle of Trafalgar, when his words not only reported both a victory over the enemy and the loss of Nelson, but managed at the same time to convey sentiments from the very bottom of ...
Feb 23, 2010 · Admiral Collingwood was born in 1748 and is celebrated here in the North East for his career at sea, which spanned more than four decades. He is perhaps best known for taking control of the...
