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Vice Admiral James Littleton (1668–1723) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. ==Naval career== Littleton was promoted to post captain on 27 February 1693 on appointment to the command of the sixth-rate HMS ''Swift Prize''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Littleton )〕 He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS ''Portland'' in January 1796, of the fourth-rate HMS ''Anglesea'' in 1698 and of the fourth-rate HMS ''Medway'' in 1702.〔 He went on to receive the command the third-rate HMS ''Cambridge'' in 1705 and saw action at the relief of Barcelona and in command of a naval brigade at the capture of Alicante〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Littleton )〕 before taking command of the first-rate HMS ''Royal Sovereign'' in 1708.〔 Promoted to commodore, Littleton became Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station with his broad pennant in the third-rate HMS ''Defiance'', in 1710.〔Cundall, p. xx〕 He secured the capture of the San Joaquin in August 1711 during the War of the Spanish Succession.〔 He went on to be Commander-in-Chief at Chatham in 1714 and, having been promoted to rear admiral on 1 February 1717, second-in-command in the Baltic Sea that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Littleton )〕 He was promoted to vice admiral on 14 Mar 1718.〔 Littleton served as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis from 1710 to March 1711, when he was unseated by petition, and from April 1711 to May 1711 when he was again unseated by petition.〔 He was elected for that constituency, without being unseated, in 1713 and served until 1715.〔 He later served as Member of Parliament for Queenborough from 1722 to 1723.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Littleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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