Henry Trollope
| Admiral Sir Henry Trollope | |
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Sir Henry Trollope
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| Born | 20 April 1756 |
| Died | 2 November 1839 (aged 83) Bath, Somerset |
| Buried at | St. James’s Church, Bath |
| Allegiance |
 Great Britain United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Years of service | 1770–1815 |
| Rank | Lieutenant (1777) Master and Commander (1779) Post Captain (1781) Rear Admiral (1801) Admiral (1812) |
| Commands held |
HMS Kite HMS Myrmidon HMS Prudente HMS Hussar HMS Rainbow HMS Glatton HMS Russell HMS Juste |
| Battles/wars |
Lexington Bunker Hill Camperdown |
| Awards | Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1831) |
Admiral Sir Henry Trollope, GCB (20 April 1756 – 2 November 1839) was an officer of the British Royal Navy.
He entered the navy at the age of 14. In the American Revolutionary War he served aboard HMS Captain and HMS Asia. He fought at the battles of Lexington (19 April 1775) and Bunker Hill (17 June 1775) and the Siege of Boston (1775–1776). He served with John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore during the latter's campaigns in Virginia and Rhode Island.
In 1777 he was appointed third lieutenant to the fourth-rate Bristol and took part in attacks on Fort Montgomery, Fort Clinton, Philadelphia and Mud Island.
He was promoted to Post Captain in 1781. Following the peace of 1783 between Britain and the United States of America, he lived in Wales before returning to sea in 1790 as the captain of the 38-gun fifth rate Prudente.
Trollope, described as "carronade-crazy" in Gardiner's Warships of the Napoleonic Era, commanded two ships armed entirely with carronades: Rainbow, a 44-gun frigate with which he stunned the French frigate Hébé (1782) into surrendering without resistance; and Glatton, with which he routed a French squadron of four frigates, two corvettes, a brig and a cutter, and drove them into Flushing.
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