From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9960 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, October 25 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9960 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Become the master of quality cooking with these knives ["Huusk" Subject: Become the master of quality cooking with these knives Become the master of quality cooking with these knives http://amazonsupersurveys.shop/i6VUBO0V3dtGKjS2HXaRkM99tO77hKzsWkpvVm4uTFCc3yRw http://amazonsupersurveys.shop/e2YXT938SHnAAfh_RpmGkowKLNyfzAJPTubcU0m2xpfTGghS arly in 1747 a French fleet of six ships of the line, the largest warships of the time, and five Indiamen, which were large, well-armed merchant ships, commanded by Squadron Commander Jacques-Pierre de la JonquiC(re, were escorting a convoy of 40 merchantmen bound for the Caribbean and North America. They were intercepted on 3 May by a British force of fourteen ships of the line, commanded by Vice-Admiral George Anson. In the ensuing five-hour First Battle of Cape Finisterre the French lost all six ships of the line captured, as well as two frigates, two Indiamen and seven merchantmen. The fierce French resistance enabled most of the merchant ships to escape. On 20 June, 8 British ships under Commodore Thomas Fox intercepted a large French convoy inbound from the West Indies. The escorting French warships fled and 48 of 160 merchantmen were captured. By summer Anson was based ashore, in London, and his subordinate, Admiral Peter Warren, commander of the Western Squadron, was ill with scurvy. So recently promoted Rear-Admiral Edward Hawke was given command of a squadron of fourteen ships of the line which sailed from Plymouth on 9 August. Hawke introduced a new system of signalling between ships, which had the potential to enable an admiral to handle his fleet more aggressively, and instilled into his captains something of his own desire to give getting to grips with the enemy priority over rigid adherence to Admiralty sailing orders. A large French convoy with a strong escort was a ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9960 **********************************************