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About Aiskew Hollis
Vice-Admiral Aiskew Paffard Hollis was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century who is best known for his service in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born in the 1760s, Hollis entered the Navy in 1774 and served during the American Revolutionary War, seeing action at the Battle of Ushant and the French Revolutionary Wars in which he was badly wounded at the Glorious First of June. In 1801, as the captain of HMS Thames Hollis was heavily engaged at the Second Battle of Algeciras and in the Napoleonic Wars he served in a number of commissions and all major theatres.
Everything about Aiskew Hollis →- Occupation
- military officer, naval officer
- Born
- 1764
- Died
- June 23, 1844