Tarleton was a 14-gun brig launched in 1780 at Glasgow. She was a letter of marque that made one capture. The French captured Tarleton in October 1782 in the Caribbean.
HMS Kingfisher was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy which saw service during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.
HMS Resistance was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1782. Based on the design of HMS Roebuck, the class was built for use off the coast of North America during the American Revolutionary War. Commissioned by...
Several British merchant vessels have borne the name Tarleton, several of which were associated with the Tarleton family of Liverpool, who for three generations engaged in the trade in enslaved people: Tarleton (1780 ship) was built in France in...
Lieutenant-General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 – 7 May 1833) was a British military officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first European settlement in Australia in...
The Battle of Waxhaws (also known as the Waxhaws Massacre, Buford's Massacre, and Battle of Waxhaw Creek) was a military engagement which took place near Lancaster, South Carolina on May 29, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. A provincial...
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions.
Aigle was a 36-gun frigate launched in 1780 as a French privateer. The French Navy purchased and commissioned her in 1782, but a British squadron captured her in the action of 15 September 1782 and the frigate was subsequently commissioned into the...
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Brisbane, KCB (1770 – December 1829) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Saint Vincent from 1808 to 1829. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, he took part in...
The 63rd Regiment of Foot was a British Army regiment raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms, it amalgamated with the 96th Regiment of Foot to form the Manchester Regiment in 1881.