Schomberg, Alexander Wilmot (NBD) (Q24022194)
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| English | Schomberg, Alexander Wilmot (NBD) |
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SCHOMBERG. (English)
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Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1841. f-p., 24; h-p., 38. (English)
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Sir Alexander Schomberg obtained his first commission 11 Dec. 1747, and was posted into the Richmond frigate 5 April, 1757. He commanded the Diana 32, at the reduction of Quebec in 1759, and distinguished himself greatly during the siege of that important fortress, by a French army under Mons. Levi, in May, 1760. On the enemy being repulsed he was sent home with the tidings. On his arrival he was placed in command of the Essex, a new 64, in which he continued employed under the orders of Sir Edw. Hawke and H.R.H. the Duke of York, until the conclusion of hostilities in Feb. 1763. From Dec. 1771 until the period of his death, which took place in the spring of 1804, he commanded the yacht engaged in attendance upon the successive Viceroys of Ireland, from one of whom he received, in 1777, the honour of knighthood. (English)
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Sir Chas. Marsh Schomberg entered the Navy on board the Dorset yacht, commanded by his father, Sir Alexander Schomberg. Attaining the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1795 he served in that capacity in the Minotaur 74, Capt. Thos. Louis, at the battle of the Nile, and was First of the same ship in a variety of operations on the coast of Italy. While employed in the Foudroyant 80, as Flag-Lieutenant to Lord Keith, during the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, he was made Commander into the Termagant sloop. On the termination of hostilities, up to which period he had been serving on shore, he joined the Charon 44, and assisted in conveying the French troops from Alexandria to Malta. He acquired Post-rank 6 Aug. 1803, and commanded, during the after-part of the war, the Madras 54, the Hibernia 120, and Foudroyant 80, flag-ships of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, the President 50, the Astraea of 42 guns and 271 men, and the Nisus 38. In the Hibernia he witnessed the flight of the Royal House of Portugal to the Brazils; and while in command, in the Astraea, of a squadron composed of that ship, the Phoebe and Galatea, frigates of similar force, and 18-gun brig Racehorse, he made prize, 20 May, 1811 (after a long and warmly-contested action fought off Madagascar with the French 40-gun frigates Renommée, Clorinde, and Néréide) of the Renommée, and took, on 25 of the same month, the Néréide and the settlement of Tamatave. From April, 1820, until April, 1824, he commanded the Rochfort 80, .. (English)
