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Lord de Saumarez, originally Mr. James Saumarez, was born 11 March, 1757, at Guernsey; and entered the Navy in 1770 on board the Montreal, Capt. Alms. For his conduct in the Bristol 50, Commodore Sir Peter Parker, in the attack upon Fort Sullivan, near Charlestown, South Carolina, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of that ship; and after having taken part with the same officer in the expedition against Long Island, and, in the Chatham 74, in the attempt upon Rhode Island, he was officially promoted by a Commission dated in Feb. 1778, He subsequently commanded the Spitfire galley with great activity on the coast of North America; was in the Fortitude 74, bearing the flag of Sir Hyde Parker, in the action off the Doggerbank 5 Aug. 1781; and, in acknowledgment of his services on that occasion, was promoted to the rank of Commander and appointed to the Tisiphone fire-veaael. In the following Dec. he proved chiefly inatrumental to the capture, by Rear-Admiral Kempenfeld, of part of a French convoy under M. de Guichen; and on his arrival in the West Indies with the intelligence of the latter having left port he was appointed, by Sir Sam. Hood, the Commander-in-Chief, to the Russell 74. In that ship he bore a distinguished part in Rodney’s action with the Comte de Grasse 12 April, 1782. .. (English)

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