known as ‘Old Dreadnought’. He served in the West Indies during the War of Jenkins’s Ear and the War of the Austrian Succession, and was in charge of naval operations at the siege of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in 1758, where his success opened the way for the conquest of Canada. His most famous exploit was the destruction of the French Mediterranean fleet off the Portuguese coast at Lagos in 1759, which helped to establish British naval supremacy in the Seven Years War.