File:Sir Wm Sydney Smith (William Sidney Smith) RMG PU3506.tiff
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English: Sir Wm Sydney Smith [William Sidney Smith]Print. Smith (1764-1840) was an individualist with a flair for guerrilla warfare. He was frigate captain at the start of the French Revolutionary War and in 1795 was captured on the coast of France during a cutting-out expedition and imprisoned in Paris until early 1798, largely because the French thought he was also engaged in espionage: at this he was also accomplished, aided by his fluent French. He was then sent to the Mediterranean where he clashed with both Nelson and Lord Keith, neither of whom appreciated his high-handed independence and failure to consult. He none the less won fame in supporting a Turkish force that repulsed Napoleon's siege of Acre in 1799, ending his march north from Egypt on Syria. However, after Napoleon's escape to France, a subsequent convention he made with the French at El Arish in 1800 to evacuate Egypt was repudiated by the British government. They were subsequently defeated in 1801 at Aboukir by Abercromby, an action in which Smith assisted in the British landings. He continued to be employed in unusual tasks until 1814, when he was a vice-admiral, but was too much of an maverick to be greatly appreciated by the Navy, albeit he was a popular hero. These included blockade of the Dutch coast in 1803-04 and an early but unsuccessful use of rockets against Boulogne. Having originally been knighted by the Swedes in the 1792 for (unauthorised) service against the Russians, he was eventually made a British KCB in 1815, (GCB 1838) and rose to full admiral in 1821 during his long retirement - in Paris, where he is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery. Sir Wm Sydney Smith |
Date | Published 1 October 1796 |
Dimensions | Mount: 176 mm x 112 mm |
Notes | Box Title: Portraits 1840-1841. |
Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/107657 |
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Identifier InfoField | Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 50 id number: PAD3506 |
Collection InfoField | Fine art |
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