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Caique sailed by the Levant Schooner Flotilla, World War II.

The Levant Schooner Flotilla was an Allied naval organisation during World War II that facilitated covert and irregular military operations in the Aegean Sea from 1942–1945. It was primarily organised by the British Royal Navy and consisted of a series of commandeered caïques, or local schooners, manned by British sailors, special forces, and Greek volunteers.

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Levant Schooner Flotilla

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The Levant Schooner Flotilla was an Allied naval organisation during World War II that facilitated covert and irregular military operations in the Aegean...

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Adrian Seligman

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and soldier in the Second World War. Seligman would create the Levant Schooner Flotilla naval commando unit in the Aegean Sea. Seligman was born in Leatherhead...

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Geoffrey Kirk

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World War II. He was deployed to the Aegean Sea as part of the Levant Schooner Flotilla and distinguished himself through his command of modern Greek....

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Battle of Leros

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Military history of Greece during World War II Dodecanese Campaign Levant Schooner Flotilla Adriatic Campaign of World War II Axis occupation of Greece during...

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List of War of 1812 battles

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(July 2, 1812): The capture on the Detroit River of the American merchant schooner Cuyahoga Packet by several members of Canadian Provincial Marine in a rowboat...

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Battle of Lake Erie

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there: the sloop-of-war Queen Charlotte and the brig General Hunter. The schooner Lady Prevost was under construction and was put into service a few weeks...

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Battle of Lake Borgne

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7. Patterson dispatched Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones and a small flotilla to wait outside of the Rigolets heading eastward, towards the passes Mariana...

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American colonial marines

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and its marines. On 9 May 1775, sailors and mariner-militiamen aboard a flotilla under the command of Colonel Benedict Arnold captured a British sloop-of-war...

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Raids on Boulogne

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of the Royal Navy led by Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson to destroy a flotilla of French vessels anchored in the port of Boulogne, a fleet which was thought...

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List of naval battles

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May OS) Fredrikshamn/Hamina in Finland – Swedish galley flotilla defeats Russian galley flotilla. 3 and 4 June (23 and 24 May OS) – Action off Kronstadt...

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Battle of Gerontas

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morning of 29 August 1824, the 86 warships of the Ottoman and Egyptian flotilla detected the Greek fleet and proceeded with a pincer movement, using advantageous...

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Engagements on Lake Ontario

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and Duke of Gloucester, based at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard. The schooners Seneca and Governor Simcoe were also taken into service. The chief officer...

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David Dixon Porter

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encountered a flotilla of about fifty schooners, convoyed by Spanish brigs Marte and Amalia. Captain Porter elected to attack, and soon forced the flotilla to seek...

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John Benbow

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and the owner and commander of a frigate named Benbow, trading with the Levant. In May 1687 he commanded a merchant vessel, Malaga Merchant, and was aboard...

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War of 1812

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Nottawasaga Bay and on 13 August they destroyed its fortifications and the schooner Nancy that they found there. They then returned to Detroit, leaving two...

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Wilhelm von Tegetthoff

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on 16 November 1852. Tegetthoff received his first command, the naval schooner Elisabeth, in 1854. This was at the time of the Austrian Navy's intensive...

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Jewish pirates

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and cut off by the Romans they rebuilt the city walls, and used a light flotilla to demoralize commerce and interrupt the grain supply to Rome from Alexandria...

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List of ships captured in the 19th century

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be condemned by a prize court. Mercator |  Denmark | May 1800 A Danish schooner captured by USS Experiment commanded by Lieutenant Maley entering the Haitian...

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List of shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean

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24.28389 (HMHS Britannic) HMS Broke 8 November 1942 A Thornycroft type flotilla leader that suffered heavy damage in Operation Terminal and later sank...

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Corps of Colonial Marines

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and the schooner HMS St Lawrence), participating in a series of raids. After the British failed to destroy the American Chesapeake Bay Flotilla at the...

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Battle of Baltimore

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operating along the American Atlantic coast. After defeating a US Navy gunboat flotilla, a military force totaling 4,370, composed of British Army, Royal Marines...

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