Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg (British,1779-1835) No.1 A B...

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Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg (British,1779-1835) No.1 A British Squadron ... under the Command of Captain ... Schomberg ... commencing action with a Squadron of French Frigates ...; No.2 The British Squadron ... and the French Squadron ... becalmed ...; No.3 The renewed action by night ...; No.4 The fort and settlement of Tamatave ... A set of four etchings with aquatint Each 40.5 x 65 cm Provenance; The Parker Gallery, London A series depicting a naval engagement off the east coast of Madagascar, undated, but printed after June 1815 (the date Schomberg received his knighthood). On 20 May 1811, Schomberg, aboard the frigate Astrea ''in company with two other frigates and a sloop.. fell in with three large French frigates with troops sent out from France as a reinforcement for their garrison at Mauritius, of whose capture they had been ignorant. After a brisk action, one of the French frigates, the Renommée of 40 guns, struck to the Astraea; the other two escaped for the time, but one, the Néréide, surrendered at Tamatave [on the east coast of Madagascar] a few days later''