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A short while ago it pleased the Lord Almighty to show us his power. Here we had from 12 to 22 October of this year a very fierce wind & a heavy see that ruined a lot of houses and warehouses, yes even many ships were wrecked and many people were killed. The wall has been completely washed away
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The wind directions recorded during the hurricane suggest that the eye missed Barbados to the north. Northwesterly winds increased through the day on October 10. The wind gradually backed to westerly through the night of October 10 and peaked at midnight. Wind speed returned to normal by 8:00 the
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About 4,500 people died on Barbados. The hurricane began affecting the island with rain late on October 9. The ships in the bay broke their moorings by 4:00 the afternoon of October 10, and the full impact arrived around 6:00 in the evening. The hurricane produced violent winds "so deafening that
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The gale of wind which happened on the 12th Oct. was the most severe perhaps ever known. Barbadoes suffered amazingly, 6500 souls perished. Tobago laid waste, Grenades, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, suffered more than any person can conceive. St. Kitts and Eustatia, did not escape without
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employees, Christopher W. Landsea and Al Sandrik write that it is possible the hurricane passed much closer to the province than previously thought. Another possibility considered was an extension to a hurricane in the western Caribbean Sea. Because of lack of data, the exact track of the Great
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as Saint Callixtus ("San Calixto" in Spanish). Since European arrival in the Americas in 1492, all storms and hurricanes had been named after the name of the saint of the day the storm hit Puerto Rico; for example, the
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by the sea and the back of the house has been left only on single struts, yes it was so heavy that the sea flew over our house but we may thank the Lord for his mercy that we have come off so well.
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as it paralleled the southern coastline, and on October 14 made its closest point of approach, to the southwest portion of the island. It subsequently turned to the northwest, going through the
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has estimated that this damage could be caused only by winds exceeding 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). Every house and fort on Barbados was destroyed. According to British Admiral
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Estimates of the death toll from the hurricane range from 22,000 to about 28,500, making it the deadliest hurricane in the recorded history of the Atlantic hurricane basin.
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late on October 9. On October 10, the worst of the hurricane passed over the island, with at least one estimate of gusts as high as 200 mph (320 km/h) during
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The death toll from the Great Hurricane alone exceeds that of many entire decades of Atlantic hurricanes. Estimates are significantly higher than for the 1998
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This hurricane was first encountered by a boat in the eastern Caribbean Sea, but it may have developed in early October in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the
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A fleet of 40 French ships was struck off Martinique during the hurricane. Several hundred military personnel and about 9,000 civilians died; however, the
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Depradine, C. A., 1989: Pre-1900 severe hurricanes in the Caribbean. Notes compiled for the Caribbean Meteorological Institute, Saint James, Barbados.
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when the storm passed through the islands from October 10 to October 16. Specifics on the hurricane's track and strength are unknown, as the official
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He did not mention a dramatic death toll on the island. He also said that the situation there was not as bad as on the French and English islands.
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with heavy loss of life. By far the worst losses in the Royal Navy, however, were those ships under the command of Vice-Admiral
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by female human names until 1978, when both gender names began to be used after control over naming was relinquished to the
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After hitting Guadeloupe, the hurricane turned west-northwest, passing about 145 km (90 mi) southwest of
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The Great Hurricane of 1780: The Story of the Greatest and Deadliest Hurricane of the Caribbean and the Americas
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hurricane in Puerto Rico because the eye of the cyclone made landfall there on October 14, the Christian
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of the area, significantly weakening British control over the Atlantic. The hurricane later passed near
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The hurricane stripped the bark off trees and left none standing on Barbados. Cuban meteorologist
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on October 18, and was last observed two days later about 475 km (295 mi) southeast of
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On October 19, strong winds and high tides were reported in the British province of
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to Martinique. When he returned to Sint Eustatius, he reported on the damage in
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Warehouses on the beach of St. Eustatius were damaged by the hurricane.
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and causing 9,000 deaths. A storm surge also struck the south coast of
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High winds, heavy rains, and storm surge caused severe damage at
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The hurricane produced a 25-foot (7.6 m) storm surge on
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Among the ships lost from Rodney's fleet were the frigates
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early on October 12 and subsequently struck the island of
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A Dutch sea-officer was on a ship that was blown from
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were named after the feast day on which they struck.
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were lost, and seven other warships were dismasted.
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Index

A map showing most of the Lesser Antilles in yellow. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are pink
Bermuda
SSHWS
NWS
Atlantic hurricane
Lesser Antilles
Puerto Rico
Hispaniola
Bermuda
East Florida
U.S.
1780 Atlantic hurricane season
Atlantic hurricane
tropical cyclone
Western Hemisphere
Lesser Antilles
Atlantic hurricane database
Barbados
Category 5 hurricane
Martinique
Saint Lucia
Sint Eustatius
American Revolution
contesting for control
Puerto Rico
Hispaniola
Atlantic Canada
Hurricane Mitch
1780 Atlantic hurricane season
Cape Verde Islands

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