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Forgetting the set backs of the American Revolutionary War, in 1793 the Royal Navy embarked on an almost unprecedented era of victories at sea, producing a considerable appetite for pictures of every incident, great or small. A thriving trade in prints and engravings grew up, supplemented by... read more
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with London, and London with Portsmouth and Plymouth. Middleton had adopted the administrative plan in 1783 of reserving in the dockyards under each ship's name a large proportion of the imperishable stores needed for service.
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