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Military unit
The Western Squadron Lord Anson he was instructed to combine all existing commands in the English Channel - those at the
Downs ,
Narrow Seas ,
Plymouth and the
Spithead - under a centralized command under the Commander-in-Chief, Western Squadron in 1746.
[4] The squadron was commanded by the Flag Officer with the dual title of
Commander-in-Chief, English Channel [5] and
Commander-in-Chief, Western Squadron [6]
History In 1650 Captain
Influence on British naval policy, strategy and thinking In the seventeen hundreds, British Naval policy had not changed very much in previous centuries. With British trade interests growing, however, so were the problems posed by French Naval expansion since the 1660s-1670s, along with the need to resolve them.naval blockade developed as a consequence of this policy.
[24] During the 1759
blockade of Brest , Admiral Hawke was the first to establish a system of replenishment at sea in order to maintain a blockade.
[25]
Commanders Incomplete list of post holders included:[26] N = died in post
Vice Admiral Lord Anson
(1746– 3 May 1747)
Rear-Admiral Sir Peter Warren (7 July 1747 – 3 August 1747)
Admiral Sir Edward Hawke , (3 August 1747 – 1748) [27]
Admiral Sir Edward Hawke , (1755- June 1756) [28]
Admiral John Byng , (1755-1756)
Vice Admiral Lord Anson
(1757– October 1758)
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Saunders , (October 1758-9 May 1759)
Admiral Sir Edward Hawke , (9 May 1759 – 4 January 1763)
Admiral Augustus Keppel (22 March 1778– 18 March 1779)
Admiral Charles Hardy (18 March 1779 – 1780) N
Admiral Sir Francis Geary (May 1780-September 1780)
Vice Admiral George Darby (1780–1782) [29]
Admiral Earl Howe (1782–1783)
Commodore Sir John Lindsay , (1783–84)
Commodore John Leveson-Gower , (1785–88)
Admiral Earl Howe , (1790)
Admiral Earl Howe , (June 1793 – April 1794)
Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren , (July 1793 - April 1794)
Admiral Edward Pellew , (April 1794 -1795)
Admiral Lord Bridport
, (1795–1797) (temporary command)
Admiral Lord Bridport
, (1797–1800)
Admiral Lord St Vincent , (1800–1803)
Admiral Sir William Cornwallis , (1803–1806)
Admiral Lord Gardner , (1807–1808)
Admiral Lord St Vincent , (1806–1807)
Admiral Lord Gardner , (1807–1809) N
Admiral Lord Gambier
, (1809–1811)
Admiral Sir Charles Cotton , (1811–1812) N
Admiral Lord Keith , (1812–1814) Squadron disbanded, (1815-1830) Squadron disbanded, (1833-1845) Squadron is disbanded but is re-established under a new name the Channel Squadron in 1858.
[30]
. ^ "Royal Navy Dockyards: Plymouth" . rmg.co.uk . Royal Museums Greenwich, 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017 .. . ^ Harrison, Simon. "Commander-in-Chief at English Channel" . threedecks.org . S. Harrison 2010-2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018 . ^ Harrison, Simon. "Commander-in-Chief at English Channel" . threedecks.org . S Harrison, 2010-2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018 . . . ^ Young, Andy. "Anson: The man who built a Navy" . academia.edu . Academia 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017 . . . ^ Saxby, C. Richard. "The Western Squadron and the Blockade of Brest | History Today" . www.historytoday.com . History Today Magazine, Volume 23 Issue 1 January 1973. Retrieved 28 December 2017 . . . . ^ "Desertion, identity, and the North American squadron 1784-1812" . Maritime Museum of the Atlantic . Nova Scotia Museum, Canada, 2017. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2017 .^ Channel Fleet in 1801 at the Nelson Society Archived February 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . . ^ Duffy.p.614.
^ Duffy.p.63.
^ Duffy.p.62.
) ^ Davis & Engerman.p.614.
. . ^ Tucker. p.830
^ Tucker. p.830
^ The Naval Gazetteer, Biographer and Chronologist: Containing a History of the Late Wars from ... 1793 to ... 1801; and from ... 1803 to 1815, and Continued, as to the Biographical Part to the Present Time ^ "The British "Western Squadron," as our ancestors of George II's time termed what we now call the Channel Squadron". Navy and Army Illustrated . 16 : 94. 1903.
References Charters, Erica (2014). "The Royal Navy's Western Squadron." Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of the British Armed Forces During the Seven Years' War . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. . Duffy, Michael, ed. (1992). Parameters of British Naval Power: 1650-1850 . Exeter, United Kingdom: University of Exeter Press. . Grant, R.G. (2017). 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History . Chartwell. . Mackesy, Piers (1964). The War for America: 1775-1783. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: U of Nebraska Press.
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Robson, Martin (2016). A History of the Royal Navy: The Seven Years' War. London, England: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd.
Saunders, Andrew (1997). Book of Channel defences. London: Batsford [u.a.]
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The Naval Gazetteer, Biographer and Chronologist: Containing a History of the Late Wars from 1793 to 1801; and from 1803 to 1815, and Continued, as to the Biographical Part to the Present Time. C. Wilson. 1842.
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