Charles Ross (Royal Navy officer)
[2] In December 1803 Ross was appointed to command of the frigate Pique (36), employed at the blockade of Saint-Domingue and witnessed the surrender of the French squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau's army from Cap Français.[3] Pique continued to operate in the Caribbean, making numerous captures, including the French cutter Le Terreur of 10 guns and 75 men, on 18 March 1804,[4] the Spanish ship-of-war Diligentia (in company with Diana),[2] and the 18-gun corvette Orquijo on 8 February 1805.No sooner had the boarding party stepped aboard than the French crew, concealed behind fallen masts and sails, let fly with a volley of musket fire, killing ten and wounding fourteen.[2] From 13 August 1812 he served as flag-captain to Sir George Cockburn, commanding the 74s Marlborough, Sceptre, Albion, while taking part in operations on the coast of North America during the War of 1812.[9] In January 1815, while commanding the Albion he conducted a boat expedition up St. Marys River, Georgia, before returning to Cumberland Island, with a ship loaded with timber, and an English East Indiaman which had been captured by an American privateer.He also embarked all the produce collected at the town of St. Mary's in the vessels taken there by Captain Robert Barrie, blew up the fort on Point Peter and a battery (mounting six 24-pounders and two brass 6-pounders) and destroyed the barracks and storehouses, together with some merchandise and guns that were not deemed fit to bring away.