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	HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT NELSON - LoveToKnow Article on HORATIO NELSON, VISCOUNT NELSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In May he sailed for the Mediterranean with Hood, and was engaged under his orders in the occupation of Toulon by the allied British and.
		From the date of the occupation of Corsica till the island was evacuated, that is to say, from the end of 1794 till the middle of 1796, he was incessantly active.
		He served under Hotham, who undertook the command when Hood returned to England, and was engaged in the indecisive actions fought by him in the Gulf of Lyons in March and July 1795.
	96.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NELSON_HORATIO_NELSON_VISCOUNT.htm (7965 words)

	Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg55 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Louisa Hood was born in 1775 in Catherington, Hampshire.
		Charlotte Hood was born in 1777 in Catherington, Hampshire.
		Elizabeth Hood was born in 1780 in Catherington, Hampshire.
	www3.sympatico.ca /alloydthomas/Wyon/pafg55.htm (610 words)

	Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-12-02 – 1814-05-02) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.
		For the remainder of the war, from 1761 to 1763 Hood was captain of Africa in the Mediterranean.
		In 1797, after the Spithead mutiny had been suppressed, Hood took the fleet to sea and from 1798 he personally directed the blockade of Brest until he was relieved by John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent in 1800.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Bridport (556 words)

	BRIDPORT - LoveToKnow Article on BRIDPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		, ViscouNT (1727-1814), British admiral, was~ the younger brother of Samuel, Lord Hood, andcousinof Sir Samuel and Captain Alexander Hood.
		Hood was involved in the court-martial on Admiral (afterwarda Viscount) Keppel which followed this action, and although adverse popular feeling was aroused by the course which he took in Keppels defence, his conduct does not seem to have injured his professional career.
		Two years later he was made rear-admiral of the white, and succeeded Kempenfeldt as one of Howes flag-officers, and in the Queen (90) he was present at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRIDPORT.htm (985 words)

	Alexander Hood (captain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Captain Alexander Hood (April 23, 1758 – April 2, 1798) was an officer of the Royal Navy, one of several members of the Hood family to serve at sea.
		Hood became close friends with the commander of his prize, the Baron de Peroy, and during the peace of 1783–1792 paid a long visit to France as his former prisoner's guest.
		Among the dead was Captain Hood, mortally wounded in the thigh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Hood_%28captain%29 (407 words)

	Stove Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hood was the younger son of Sir Alexander Hood of St Andries, Somerset, 2nd baronet.
		His grandfather, Captain Alexander Hood, was killed in action during the French Revolutionary Wars; he fell whilst in command of HMS ''Mars'', in action with the French 74-gun ship ''Hercule'' on April 21, 1798.
		As gunnery lieutenant Hood continued in the ''President'' till 1849; and in the following year was appointed to the frigate ''Arethusa'', then commissioned for the Mediterranean by Captain William Symonds, afterwards the well-known Admiral of the Fleet.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/85/stove-hood.html (906 words)

	HMS Hood (1891) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second warship to be named HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship of the Royal Navy, and the last of the eight built.
		Hood differed significantly from the other Royal Sovereigns in that she had a freeboard of only 11 feet 3 inches compared to 19 feet 6 inches of the other members of the class.
		This small freeboard meant that Hood was very wet in rough weather and her maximum speed reduced rapidly as the wave height increased, making her only suitable for service in the relatively calm Mediterranean.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Hood_%281891%29 (646 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: History of the Great Naval Hoods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The battle cruiser Hood and her predecessors were named in honour of the Hood family that spawned several great naval leaders in the mid 1700's to early 1800's.
		She was in fact, named for the greatest of the naval Hoods, 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley (Lord Samuel Hood).
		Hood was shot in the thigh shortly after the action commenced.
	www.hmshood.com /ship/history/Family.html (2047 words)

	LORD HOOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hood continued to be employed on the blockade of the French coast until the spring of 1760, when, at his own special request, he was sent to the Mediterranean.
		Hood, in the meantime, devoted himself to a political career; during the 1784 general election he was returned to parliament for Westminster.
		Hood was by now over seventy but he showed little sign of his age, remaining vigorous and aggressive in his conduct of the war.
	website.lineone.net /~cherbil/Command/hood.htm (1353 words)

	Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nelson first met Samuel Hood in the West Indies, where Nelson was a captain and Hood second-in-command of the Fleet under Admiral Rodney.
		Hood was commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet and Nelson was captain of the Agamemnon.
		Shortly afterwards Hood was recalled to England under the pretence of ill-health, but most likely on account of a difference of opinion with the admiralty or the ministry.
	www.aboutnelson.co.uk /hood.htm (312 words)

	HMS Hood: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about HMS Hood
		The second HMS Hood was a Royal Sovereign class battleship built at Chatham, England and commisioned in 1891.
		Hood was launched on August 22, 1918 and commissioned following first of class trials on May 15, 1920 under Captain Wilfred Tomkinson.
		She was given a refit in 1930 and was due to be scrapped in 1941.
	www.encyclopedian.com /hm/HMS-Hood.html (678 words)

	Samuel Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Samuel Hood, later Viscount Hood of Whitley (December 12, 1724 - January27, 1816) was a British admiral.
		The son of Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh in Somerset, and prebendary of Wells, Samuelthe younger entered the navy on May 6, 1741.
		Their correspondence shows that theywere not on friendly terms; but Hood always did his duty, and he was so able that no question of removing him from the stationever arose.
	www.therfcc.org /samuel-hood-127181.html (975 words)

	capthood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Samuel, Lord Viscount Hood, Admiral of the White, master and governor of Greenwich Hospital, sometime commander of His Majesty's fleet at Portsmouth, governor of the Naval Academy and member of the Board of Admiralty, was one of Britain's outstanding naval figures.
		Hood's second advertisement revised his sales pitch, publicized his orders to capture all French ships (an opportunity for stout-hearted lads to earn prize money) and offered those who enlisted for the cruise the option of being discharged in Charleston at the end of two months.
		Hood's officer tried to tell the mob he was hunting deserters and had no intent to meddle with the merchant crews, but the ruffians began throwing bricks and clubs at the British detail.
	www.sandlapper.org /capthood.htm (2134 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 6014
		Albert Hood was the son of Samuel Hood, 3rd Viscount Hood and Mary Isabella Tibbits.
		Albert Hood, son of Samuel Hood, 3rd Viscount Hood and Mary Isabella Tibbits, on 2 June 1868.
		Francis Wheler Hood, 4th Viscount Hood was the son of Samuel Hood, 3rd Viscount Hood and Mary Isabella Tibbits.
	www.thepeerage.com /p6014.htm (557 words)

	thomas hood
		Admitted soon after into the counting-house of a friend of his family, he "turned his stool into a Pegasus on three legs, every foot, of course, being a dactyl or a spondee"; but the uncongenial profession affected his health, which was never strong, and he was sent to his father's relations at Dundee, Scotland.
		Now it is true that the critic must be unconscious of some of the subtlest charms and nicest delicacies of language who would exclude from humorous writing all those impressions and surprises which depend on the use of the diverse sense of words.
		Hood was associated with the Athenaeum, started in 1828 by James Silk Buckingham, and he was a regular contributor for the rest of his life.
	www.fact-library.com /thomas_hood.html (837 words)

	Viscount Hereford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Viscount Hereford is the senior (A British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron) Viscount in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of England) Peerage of England.
		The Viscount is also the only one of the three English Viscounts who does not hold a higher title.
		On the death of the 4th viscount (also the 3rd Earl of Essex), Sir Edward's son Walter succeeded to the viscouncty, and the baronetcy and viscountcy have remained merged.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Viscount_Hereford.htm (239 words)

	Hood, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1781 he was sent to the West Indies as second in command to Lord Rodney.
		He fought in many engagements in the American Revolution, including the victory (1782) over the French fleet under the comte de Grasse (who had earlier defeated Hood) off Dominica.
		As commander in chief in the Mediterranean he captured Toulon (1793) and Corsica (1794).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ho/Hood-Sam.html (127 words)

	Viscount Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Viscount Hood was created in 1796 in the Peerage of Great Britain.
		In 1795, his wife Susanna was created Baroness Hood, in her own right, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
		The Viscount thus holds, in addition to the Viscountcy, two Baronies of Hood, one inherited from each member of the couple.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viscount_Hood (111 words)

	Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg69 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Horatio Nelson Hood was born on 21 Aug 1822.
		Henry Hood was born in 1824 in St. Marylebone, London.
		Selina Hood [Parents] was born on 16 Nov 1782 in Catherington, Hampshire.
	www3.sympatico.ca /alloydthomas/pafg69.htm (525 words)

	The Seafaring Hoods of Netherbury, Dorset
		And Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, Bart., KB., KSI., sometime M.P. for Bridport, who served his country with great distinction under Lord Nelson at Santa Cruz in 1797, and in command of HMS Zealous at the Battle of the Nile as well as at Rochefort 1806 where he lost his right arm.
		As described in the inscription in Netherbury church, Samuel Hood was present at The Battle of the Nile on the 1st of August 1798, where under Vice Admiral.
		Samuel Hood was mentioned in despatches again in 1807 in a letter from Admiral Gambier to the Hon.
	www.thedorsetpage.com /history/Seafaring_Hoods/seafaring_hoods.htm (635 words)

	Range Hood, Chemical Fume Hoods, Plywood Hoods History, Hood styles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All fume hoods shall be inspected and certified annually to determine a proper face velocity of 100 fpm.
		All fume hoods functioning properly shall have a certification label affixed to the sash height at which the fume hood was certified.
		The Hoods spoke about how they had fun riding and were not supported by factory sponsors or even their parents.
	www.buyhoods.com (2150 words)

	Robin Hood (from storytelling) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Robin Hood was a rebel, and many of the most striking episodes in the tales about him show him and his companions robbing and killing representatives of authority and giving the gains to the poor.
		One of the romantic heroes of the Middle Ages was the outlaw Robin Hood of England.
		Hood Island in the Galapagos is known for unique seabirds such as the waved albatross and the blue -footed boobies.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /ebi/article-210670 (775 words)

	Samuel Hood
		HOOD, Samuel, Viscount, British naval officer, born in Butleigh, Somersetshire, England, 12 December, 1724:; died in Bath, 27 January, 1816.
		1782, the French having invested the island of St. Christopher, Hood went to its relief, and, having lured De G rasse from the road of Basse-Terre to join battle, he slipped into the vacant anchorage, from which the French were unable to force him.
		He was created an Irish peer in 1782 under the title of Baron Hood of Catherington, elected to parliament in 1784, lost his seat on being made lord of the admiralty in 1788, but was re-elected in 1790.
	www.famousamericans.net /samuelhood (496 words)

	HOOD, - Online Information article about HOOD, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat.
		hat, both masculine;" hood " and " hat " are distantly related; they may be connected with the feminine hoed or Hut, meaning See also:
		HOOD OF AVALON, ARTHUR WILLIAM ACLAND HOOD, BARON (
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HOOD.html (706 words)

	Viscount Bridport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was first created in 1800 in the Peerage of Great Britain for Alexander Hood, 1st Baron Bridport, already Baron Bridport in both the Peerage of Ireland (1794) and the Peerage of Great Britain (1796).
		This Viscountcy and the British barony became extinct with his death in 1814, but the Irish barony passed on, and the 3rd Baron Bridport was again created Viscount Bridport in 1868.
		Alexander Nelson Hood, 3rd Baron Bridport (1814-1904) (became Viscount in 1868)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viscount_Bridport (143 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (July 14, 1824 â€“ November 15, 1901), was an officer of the Royal Navy who held command during the Crimean War and later served as First Sea Lord.
		HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy.
		She was named after Otto von Bismarck and is famous for sinking HMS Hood in 1941, and for the subsequent pursuit which ended with her destruction just three days later.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Hood (720 words)

	Benjamin Hallowell Biography - Part 1
		The Alfred also formed part of the detachment sent under Sir Samuel Hood in pursuit of the fleeing enemy and was consequently present at the capture of two ships of the line - one frigate and one corvette, in the Mona Passage, on the l9th of the same month.
		Upon Captain Cunningham's being sent to England with the despatches relative to the final subjugation of Corsica, Hallowell was appointed to succeed that officer in the command of the Lowestoffe frigate.
		Hood was employed in co-operation with the Turks and Russians, in harassing the French Army.
	www.aandc.org /research/sir_benjamin_hallowell_bio1.htm (4093 words)

	Viscount Bridport - Wikipedia
		Viscount Bridport ist ein erblicher britischer Adelstitel, der zweimal verliehen wurde.
		Juni 1800 für Admiral Alexander Hood, dem jüngeren Bruder des ebenfalls berühmten britischen Admirals Samuel Hood, 1.
		Juli 1868 wieder zum Viscount Bridport (of Cricket St. Thomas and of Bronte) erhoben.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viscount_Bridport (177 words)

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