Sir richard strachan jamaica
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Sir Richard John Strachan
He was born in Devon on 27 October , the eldest son of Lieutenant Patrick Strachan, and of his wife Caroline Pitman. He was the grandson of Captain John Pitman, and the nephew of Captain Sir John Strachan, 5th baronet, who died in
In Strachan entered the navy aboard the Intrepid 64, Captain James Cranston, going out to the East Indies and also seeing service with his uncle, Captain Sir John Strachan, on that station aboard the Orford He was later employed in North America with Commodore William Hotham aboard the Preston 50, Captain Samuel Uppleby, and Vice-Admiral Lord Howe on the Eagle 64, Captain Henry Duncan, and upon his uncle&#;s death on 28 December he succeeded to his baronetcy of Thornton, County Kincardine in Aberdeenshire. From the spring of he voyaged to Africa and then Jamaica aboard the Actaeon 44, Captain Robert Keeler, and he was commissioned lieutenant in the West Indies on 5 April.
Two years later, having returned home, Strachan join
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Strachan History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Early Origins of the Strachan family
The surname Strachan was first found in Kincardineshire (Gaelic: A' Mhaoirne), a former county on the northeast coast of the Grampian region of Scotland, and part of the Aberdeenshire Council Area since , where the family sometimes spelled their Strachen or Straughan.
The family derive their name from the valley of the Aan (Strath Aan). The earliest record of the Clan was in AD, when they accompanied King Malcolm Canmore northward in his attempt to overthrow the King MacBeth after his usurpation of the Scottish throne.
The Clan Strachan was one of the major Clans participating in the Battle of Lumphanen, 25 miles west of Aberdeen. MacBeth died in the Battle on the 15th day of August, AD. MacBeth's Cairn may still be seen there to this day. Later in AD, a Walderus de Strathecan had extensive territories in the lands of Strachan (pronounced Stawn, but many in North America have now reverted to t
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Atlantic campaign of
campaign during the Napoleonic Wars
The Atlantic campaign of was a complicated series of manoeuvres and counter-manoeuvres conducted by squadrons of the French Navy and the British Royal Navy across the Atlantic Ocean during the spring and summer of , as part of the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign followed directly from the Trafalgar campaign of the year before, in which the French Mediterranean fleet had crossed the Atlantic, returned to Europe and joined with the Spanish fleet. On 21 October , this combined force was destroyed by a British fleet under Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, although the campaign did not end until the Battle of Cape Ortegal on 4 November Believing that the French Navy would not be capable of organised resistance at sea during the winter, the First Lord of the AdmiraltyLord Barham withdrew the British blockade squadrons to harbour. Barham had miscalculated – the French Atlantic fleet, based at Brest, had not been involved