Royal Naval Biography/Jackson, Robert
ROBERT JACKSON, Esq
[Post-Captain of 1802.]
This officer obtained the rank of Lieutenant Nov. 22, 1790; and received the Turkish gold medal as a reward for his services on the coast of Egypt, during the celebrated campaign of 1801, at which period he commanded the Bonne Citoyenne corvette. On the 31st Dec. in the preceding year he captured a Spanish privateer of 10 guns and 80 men, near Minorca. His post commission bears date April 29, 1802. He subsequently served as Flag-Captain to Lord Keith in the Monarch, Ville de Paris, and San Josef.
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