Expedition to Ostend
The British expedition to Ostend on 18 May 1798 was launched to destroy gun-boats harboured in Ostend and destined to take part in the planned invasion of Britain, and to destroy the infrastructure of the port including the locks, basin-gates, and sluices of the Bruges–Ostend Canal. It was a combined Royal Navy and British Army expedition under the command of Captain Home Popham (R.N.) and Major-General Eyre Coote. The British destroyed their objectives, but the army contingent was captured by the French.
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Battalion of detachmentsDonald Mackay (Royal Navy officer)Eyre Coote (British Army officer)Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of SleatHMS Circe (1785)HMS Harpy (1796)HMS Minerva (1780)HMS Tartarus (1797)HMS Vesuve (1795)HMS Wolverine (1798)Henry Warde (British Army officer)Hired armed cutter LionHistory of the Scots Guards (1642–1804)Home Riggs PophamJoseph Brome (British Army officer, died 1825)Ostend RaidOstend Raid (1798)Robert Winthrop (Royal Navy officer)Rufane Shaw DonkinSir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of LymingtonThomas Ball SulivanWilliam BirchallWiltshire Wilson
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Expedition to Ostend
The British expedition to Ostend on 18 May 1798 was launched to destroy gun-boats harboured in Ostend and destined to take part in the planned invasion of Britain, and to destroy the infrastructure of the port including the locks, basin-gates, and sluices of the Bruges–Ostend Canal. It was a combined Royal Navy and British Army expedition under the command of Captain Home Popham (R.N.) and Major-General Eyre Coote. The British destroyed their objectives, but the army contingent was captured by the French.
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