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  • Tags: Viscount Robert Melville

1814 Mar. 10

1814 Mar. 10
Asia ship, Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Milville. Account of conditions upon his arrival to take command in American waters.

1814 Mar. 25

1814 Mar. 25
Asia ship, Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Outlines plan for naval operations against the United States.

1814 Apr. 24

1814 Apr. 24
To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melvillle. Needs more ships to maintain an effective blockade to checkmate America

1814 Apr. 26

1814 Apr. 26
To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Forwarding copy of a letter received from America on the political effects of lifting the embargo by the admiralty as a means of carrying on the war.

1814 May 16

1814 May 16
Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns naval captures, officers promoted, fortification of Tangier Island under Admiral Cockburn who is arming a black force, and effects of lifting embargo.

1814 May 26

1814 May 26
Bermuda. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns political effects of blockade and the use of agents to obtain information.

1814 Aug. 29

1814 Aug. 29
Surprize Patuxent. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd, viscount Melville. Deals with the prize money due his men for the reduction of the Danish Islands in 1807.

1814 Aug. 31

1814 Aug. 31
Patuxent River. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Concerns the black troops he raised especially from escaped or captured slaves, how they drill and fight, and asking for the promotion of an old army sergeant who has been unusually…

1814 Sept. 17

1814 Sept. 17
Tonnant Off Baltimore. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd viscount Melville. Cochrane

1814 Sept. 17

1814 Sept. 17
Tonnant, Chesapeake Bay. To Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd, viscount Melville. Refers to letter of July 29 which just arrived, the instructions
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