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Schomberg, Alexander, 1720-1804


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    • Birth Date

        1720

    • Death Date

        1804-03-19

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        • Organization: Great Britain. Royal Navy

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      • found: His A sea manual, 1789:t.p. (Sir Alexander Schomberg)
      • found: DNB(Schomberg, Alexander, 1720-1804)
      • found: NUCMC data from Amer. Jewish Archives for His Letter, 1759 Sept. 5(Alexander Schomberg; letter about Gen. Wolfe's expedition against Quebec)
      • found: English Wikipedia website, viewed Apr. 24, 2017(Captain Sir Alexander Schomberg (1720, London--19 March 1804, Dublin) was an 18th-century Royal Navy officer. Like his brothers, .... he was brought up a Jew but attended St Paul's School, London, and renounced the Jewish faith by publicly receiving the sacrament according to the Anglican rites and thus being able to enter on public careers without impediment from the Test Act. Joining the Navy in 1743 as a midshipman under Captain Edward Pratten on HMS Suffolk (70 guns), he passed his examination for lieutenant on 3 December 1747, entering the sloop Hornet on 11 December and transferring from there to Speedwell, another sloop, in the West Indies in spring 1750. ...Promotion to captain eventually came on 5 April 1757, briefly in command of the new frigate Richmond, then from the end of 1757 in command of HMS Diana, 32 guns. In the Diana he played a distinguished part in the taking of Louisburg in 1758 (taking the fleet's commander in Edward Boscawen in close to reconnoitre the coast, covering the landing and taking command of a party of seamen landed to man the batteries) and Quebec in 1759/60 (bombarding the shore under Charles Saunders and repulsing a French attempt to regain the city), and was a close associate of James Wolfe. He was then sent back in 1760 with the news of the victories. There he was appointed to the Essex, with that ship taking part in the 1764 reduction of Belle Île, under Commodore Augustus Keppel and then serving in the Brest and Biscay fleet until the peace...)

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      • 1986-03-05: new
      • 2017-04-24: revised

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