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John Jervis, 1 er comte de St Vincent, né le 9 janvier 1735 et mort le 14 mars 1823, est un amiral de la Royal Navy et Member of Parliament du Royaume-Uni.Le comte de St Vincent sert pendant la seconde moitié du XVIII e siècle et le début du XIX e siècle ; il commande activement au sein des flottes britanniques pendant la guerre de Sept Ans, la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis, les ...
Jervis continued to show concern for improvements in the naval service. In December 1792, disregarding efforts ‘to misrepresent my motives, to describe them as a meditated attack on the Admiralty, and thereby prejudice me in the service’, he secured the co-operation of government in a scheme to relieve distressed superannuated seamen.
Admiral John Jervis, 1735-1823, 1st Earl of St Vincent. Jervis, Staffordshire-born son of a lawyer, was educated at Burton-on-Trent Grammar School and at Swinden's (formerly Weston's) school, Greenwich, a fellow pupil at the latter being James Wolfe, with whom he later served in the capture of Quebec. He was intended for the law but, after ...
Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play ...
John Jervis (9 January 1735 – 14 March 1823) was a British admiral. He was a seasoned veteran of the Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary Wars, and Napoleonic Wars, and defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. Intended by his family for the law, 13-year-old John Jervis ran away to sea. He saw action in the American Revolutionary War, but ...
Há 5 dias · John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent. by Francis Cotes oil on canvas, 1769 49 1/2 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1257 mm x 1003 mm) Purchased with help from the Art Fund, 1949
