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Vessel: HMS Blenheim
Recipient: Lieut. George Beatty (RM)
Type: £50
Action: Taking of Fort Dunkirk Martinique

(17th November, 1803)

Award Date: 14th February, 1804
Inscription: From The Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Lt. Geo. Beatty of the Royal Marines who on the 16th November 1803 with a Detachment of that Corps under his Command (in) the most Gallant Manner Carried and Destroyed Fort Dunkirk in the Bay of St.Anne, Martinique, Recorded in the London Gazette 28th January 1804


Location: Private collection
References: Swords of Honour & Glory - Peter Dale; illustrated front cover of Guns Weapons and Militaria September 1983

 

 

 


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