Episode 2 of 8
Rewards, criticism, and later losses
- When
- 1782
- Where
- England and the Atlantic approaches
- Part of
- Battle of the Saintes
Rodney was honoured and created a peer, though criticized for an incomplete victory; prizes were later lost to a hurricane.
Rodney and his fleet were rewarded for the victory, though the admiral was criticized for not winning a more complete one. He presented de Grasse to King George III and was created a peer with £2,000 a year settled on the title. Months later, Admiral Graves's fleet returning to England with the French prizes encountered the 1782 Central Atlantic hurricane off Newfoundland in September.
Sources
- Battle of the Saintes Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22
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