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Rodney

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Rodney
George Brydges, 1st Baron Rodney. 1719--92, English admiral: captured Martinique (1762): defeated the Spanish at Cape St Vincent (1780) and the French under Admiral de Grasse off Dominica (1782), restoring British superiority in the Caribbean


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Katharine Hilbery is coming, by the way, so William Rodney told me.
That is Rear-Admiral Baskerville, who served under Rodney in the West Indies.
With the yew bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt--with the brown bill and pike under the brave Lord Willoughby--with culverin and demi-culverin against Spaniards and Dutchmen--with hand-grenade and sabre, and musket and bayonet, under Rodney and St.
 
 
 
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