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Richmond is a market town on the River Swale in North Yorkshire, UK and is the administrative centre of the district of Richmondshire.
This Richmond was the eponymous fief of the Earls of Richmond (or comtes de Richemont), a dignity normally also held by the Duke of Brittany from 1136 to 1399.
Richmond was held perpetually by those with Lancastrian titles, until the 17th century when the Duke of Richmond was from the Lennox line in the Royal House of Stuart, also whose titles were linked intrinsically with the Auld Alliance.
In the left foreground is the frigate Richmond (always in the van), with her crew struggling to clear away the wreckage of her foretopmast after it was shot away by Moultie's deadly fire.
The Richmond was armed with twenty six 12-pounders on the upper deck, four 6-pounders on the quarterdeck, two 6-pounders on the forecastle and 12 swivels.
While cutting the buoys loose, both the Richmond and the Iris were trapped in the narrow river by the returning French fleet, resulting in the Richmond and the Iris being captured by de Grasse's fleet on 11 September, 1781.
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