Word: langara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ajax No. 1, a 74-gun ship of the line of 1,619 tons built at Plymouth in 1767, fought Admiral de Langara under British Admiral Rodney off Cape St. Vincent, Spain, when the British destroyed the Spanish Fleet in 1780. In 1782 that Ajax fought in the Battle of the Saints, in the West Indies, under Rodney again, against France's Admiral de Grasse, who was taken prisoner. Ajax No. 2, an 80-gun line-of-battle ship built at Rotherhithe in 1798, took part in the British investiture of Alexandria in 1801, but did little sea-fighting...
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