The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century was to free Christian slaves

was to free Christian slaves and to stop the practice of enslaving Europeans

Cornelis Verbeeck (1585/1591 - 1637)

Action between HMS Venus and the Semillante

Medina Sidonia was an aristocrat without naval command experience but was made commander by King Philip II

The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century was to free Christian slavesThe 'Victory' Leaving the Channel in 1793. The 'Victory' is shown broadside to port, going down Channel to windward with Rudyerd's Eddystone Lighthouse distantly visible beyond her stern. She is shown flying the flag of Lord Hood as Vice Admiral of the Red (red at the fore), as she heads outward bound with her squadron in 1793 for the Mediterranean, where she was Hood's flagship at the Siege of Toulon and the invasion of Corsica. Hood had been