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Title
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Copies of Various Orders and Letters respecting the Blockade of the Island of Curacoa By His Majestys Naval Forces under the Command of Vice Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth Kt. (docket title)
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Date
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1804-02
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Series Heading
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M425. Bligh, John, b. 1771.
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Geography
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Curaçao, Great Britain, West Indies
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Subject
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Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Officers -- History, Military orders -- Curaçao, Blockade -- Curaçao, Notification (International relations), Neutrality -- United States, Neutrality -- Sweden, Neutrality -- Denmark, West Indies -- History
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Notes
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"Copies of Letters written to His Majestys Minister at the United States of America to the Spanish Governors on the Main and to the Governors of the Danish and Swedish Islands," informing the neutral recipients that the island was under blockade.The English naval commander Sir John Thomas Duckworth reduced the Swedish and Danish possessions in the West Indies, 1801, and defeated the French fleet off St. Domingue in 1806.Documentary support for the case docketed as "Schr. Fly, Wallace" "Copy of the King's Advocate's Opinion" (M440 in this catalogue)., Original digital object name: bei-m425j, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.
