HOOD

ADMIRAL, ¥. in Devons hire 1724, d. 1816; a famous Dritish nara }}commandcr. After sceing considerab }} service in American waters, he wi spocisted, 1793, to the comsfiand of tl >| Med it err an can fleet, and got po es sic | for a few months of Toulon, the ee | naval station of l'rance in the Medite |) ranean, and in the following year toc Bastia (Corsica). ‘| HOOD, [s. 173]