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<strong>orders</strong>, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria<br />

162<br />

162<br />

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino<br />

(William Kell.), good very fine<br />

£700-900<br />

William Kell served as a Boy in H.M.S. Dartmouth during the Battle<br />

of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France, <strong>and</strong><br />

Russia engaged <strong>and</strong> routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827. The<br />

morning after the Battle Admiral Sir Edward Codrington described<br />

the state of the Turkish fleet as such, ‘Out of a fleet composed of<br />

eighty-one men-of-war, only one frigate <strong>and</strong> fifteen smaller vessels<br />

are in a state to ever to put to sea again.’<br />

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