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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 599

Great Britain
Naval
1803 (18 May) Admiralty document headed "By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" to "Sir John Tho.s Duckworth KB, Rear Admiral of the Red Etc. Etc. Etc. Jamaica" regarding policy on Spanish Naval ships. The document states "You are hereby required & directed to pay every possible attention to the Naval Preparations that may be making in the Spanish Ports and to take every practicable means of obtaining from time to time, all the intelligence you may be able to collect on that subject, accordingly ... However desirable it may be to avoid any measure of hostility against that County, you are not to suffer any Squadron of Spanish Ships to enter a French Port". Signed "St, Vincent", (?), "J Trowbridge" and "Evan Nipean". Document written over two pages with endorsement "Admiralty 18th May", in good condition. Interesting.

Until 1804, the Treaty of Amiens had enacted a truce to the Anglo-Spanish war, this was broken when in 1804 British ships attacked a Spanish squadron of frigates carrying gold and silver bullion to Cadiz. This Spanish fleet was due to be an integral part of the French planned invasion of Britain

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