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  • writing for the popular theater company, The Admiral's Men. Unlike Shakespeare, Middleton remained a free agent, able to write for whichever company ...
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  • mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively ... significant trade, since Zheng He was an admiral and an official, not a merchant ...
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  • US Admiral Richard Byrd, with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen, became the first person to fly over the South Pole on November ...
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  • pirates and corsaires, including English admiral and privateer Sir Francis ... In March 1741, British and American colonial troops led by Admiral ...
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  • of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan-ı Derya (Fleet Admiral) of the Ottoman Navy) (c. 1478 – July 4, 1546), was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral ...
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  • fell to the U.S. commanders: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General ... Admiral Matome Ugaki was recalled to Japan in February 1945 and given ...
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  • he was buried alongside the greatest British Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson. ==List of Dukes of Wellington (1814)== *Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke ...
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  • ardour of both the fleet and its admiral. He frequently intervened ... the British in the spring of 1794: Rear-Admiral Pierre Vanstabel had been ...
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  • Soon after her ascension, Anne appointed her husband Lord High Admiral ... his removal from the office of Lord High Admiral. Anne was forced to appeal ...
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  • their success on land, naval forces under Admiral Yi Sun-sin soon counterattacked ... severe damage in heavy fighting and Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin was killed, but ...
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  • in terms of both size and capabilities. Admiral Yi I (1536–1584), then ... became Prime Minister of Korea, and one of Admiral Yi's strongest advocates. ...
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  • by a delegation of Greeks led by First Admiral and Prime Minister Constantine ... of Russia (1863-1919) and second Admiral Perikles Ioannidis; ...
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  • Back in England, Cabot was made an admiral, rewarded with £10 and a patent was written for a new voyage. Later, a pension of £20 a year was ...
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  • southern Solomons was conceived by U.S. Admiral Ernest King, Commander in ... Allied expeditionary force was U.S. Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, whose ...
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  • Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Admiral Cunningham, First Sea Lord; Admiral William Leahy, Chief of staff to President Roosevelt, during ...
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  • flank under the command of the Rhodian admiral, Theophiliscus attack the ... On the way back to Rhodes, the Rhodian admiral Theophiliscus died of the ...
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  • sea. There he met the fleet of Octavian, led by Admiral Agrippa, arranged to block his exit in an arc from the south. Mark Antony's warships ...
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  • navarch more than once, he was appointed as a vice-admiral instead, with the clear understanding that this was a mere legal fiction. ...
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  • #039;s High Seas Fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer and the ... Consequently, Admiral Jellicoe led the Grand Fleet of twenty-four ...
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  • point he was styled Viscount Brome. His Brother was Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. An uncle, Frederick, was Archbishop of Canterbury and another uncle ...
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