• George Nicholas Hardinge served as a midshipman aboard HMS St Fiorenzo in 1793, a ship he would die commanding fifteen years later?

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Ralph Willett Miller

• after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars, Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus?

HMS St Fiorenzo (1794)

• George Nicholas Hardinge served as a midshipman aboard HMS St Fiorenzo in 1793, a ship he would die commanding fifteen years later?

Napoleonic Wars

• 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton (pictured) left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars?
• Captain Thomas Baker played a significant role in bringing about three battles during the Napoleonic Wars: Copenhagen, Trafalgar, and Cape Ortegal?
• lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world?
• Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Nikolay Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars?
• Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
• Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant?
• Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars?
• Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War?
• Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
• Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman?

French Revolutionary Wars

• Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
• after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars, Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus?
• the HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars?
• the Quebec-born Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux helped to organize French military operations in the French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1801), the Napoleonic Wars (1805–1815), and the July Revolution (1830)?
• the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks?