- both Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Poitou. The town was
often referred to as
Poictiers, a name
commemorated in
warships of the
Royal Navy,
after the
battle of...
- HMS
Poictiers.
Poictiers is an
alternative spelling for Poitiers, and in this
instance commemorates the
English victory there. The
first HMS
Poictiers (1809)...
- in 1857. On 28 July 1810
Poictiers shared with
Seine and
Shannon in the
recapture of the Starling. On 22
April 1811,
Poictiers,
Caledonia and the hired...
- Isle and
Omdurman (from Fairfield); Jutland, Mons and
Poictiers (from
Hawthorn Leslie;
Poictiers is the
spelling used for
Poitiers at the time of the battle);...
- 8-gun
schooner operating as an
American privateer. In
January 1813 HMS
Poictiers captured her. The
Royal Navy took
Highflyer into service,
retaining her...
-
Remaines In his
first edition (1605) he
states that it was "at the
battle of
Poictiers", but
corrects this in his next
edition (1614), Secondly, as to the motto...
- François Villon. Ezra
Pound mentions him in
Canto VIII: And
Poictiers, you know,
Guillaume Poictiers, had
brought the song up out of
Spain with the singers...
-
Travailleurs de la Mer
Sampson Low and Co.,
London 1865 E.
Edgar Cressy and
Poictiers 1 vol. in 8vo 50+ (London) 1865
Thomas Moore L'Épicurien (French translation)...
- HMS Eagle (1812) was a one-gun brig
built in 1812 that
served as a
tender to
Poictiers. The
American fishing smack Yankee used a
stratagem to
capture Eagle on...
- order'd,
though reluctantly, the
Colours to be struck." The
Journal of HMS
Poictiers reports the
capture of U.S.
sloop of war Wasp on 18
October 1812 as follows:...
