Edmund Nagle

Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, KCB was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who is best known for his capture of the French frigate Rvolutionnaire at the Action ofOctober 1794 and his close association with King George IV as a courtier from 1820 to his own death.

Edmund Nagle was born in 1757 at Bloomfield, County Cork in the Kingdom of Ireland. His father, Edmund Nagle Sr. died when his son was only six and Nagle was raised by relatives including the politician and philosopher Edmund Burke. In 1770, Nagle entered the Navy in the frigate Juno and was present at the British occupation of the Falkland Islands the following year. He served in the American Revolutionary War without seeing extensive action, on Greenwich, Syren, Polecat, and Warwick until he was captured in 1782 when commanding the small brig Racoon. He was recaptured in September by Warwick, and at the end of the war entered the reserve after briefly commanding Hound and Grana.

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