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  • for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, Admiral of the Royal Navy" ... *RAdm, January 1901: Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy *VAdm, June 1903: Vice ...
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  • of 49 ships and 140 smaller craft led by Admiral Charles Saunders. ... while the flying column harried the British rear - Montcalm instead fought ...
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  • The New Harbor had been renamed as Keppel Harbor in 1900 after Admiral ... throughout the hospital. Entering from the rear, they bayoneted everyone they ...
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  • in March 1813, a squadron under Rear Admiral George Cockburn started ... During the blockade of the Chesapeake, in fact, Rear Admiral Cockburn ...
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  • on the city of Szeged and around Rear Admiral Miklós Horthy, who formed ... of Post-Kun Hungary. The election of admiral Miklós Horthy, the chief ...
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  • Chinese]] painting of a giraffe brought by Admiral Zheng He and placed in a ... Image:Giraffe05 - melbourne zoo.jpg |The worn down bald horns of the ...
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  • with the naval strategy theories of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. He ... by seven battleships commanded by Rear Admiral Willis Lee. ...
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  • In 1943, Vice Admiral Lord Mountbatten proposed a plan to retake the ... Although plans had been drawn up and proposed by Vice Admiral Lord ...
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  • and the island was captured (for which Admiral Byng was court-martialed ... his embarkation. They were held off by the rear-guard of 1,400 under General ...
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  • with distinction during the battle. Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, and Captain ... nine in all). Both the Fleet commander, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, and ...
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  • action. The force was commanded by Rear Admiral John "Sandy" ... M.C. Clapp RN. Contrary to common belief, Admiral Woodward did not command ...
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  • began in a Lycée at Versailles, but his father, Rear Admiral William Charles Chamberlain, had planned a military career for his son and at 11 he was ...
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  • which declared that the Captain-General or Admiral-General of the Netherlands ... in April demanded in a letter to Rear-Admiral Arthur Herbert that the ...
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  • the ROK Order of Military Merit (Taiguk), to Rear Admiral Ralph A. Ofstie, USN. Photo is dated 13 May 1952.]] On August 15, 1948, popular elections ...
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  • in the invasion, under the command of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (who ... into two Naval Task Forces: Western (Rear-Admiral Alan G. Kirk) and Eastern ...
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  • up with the forced marches of the corps and rear formations always suffered ... #039;s operations with Wittgenstein's rear guard clashing with Oudinout ...
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  • Yugoslav Army, and a German thrust into the rear of the Vermion position, was ... East Headquarters and on April 17 Rear admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman ...
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  • destroyed. Only the Guillaume Tell with Rear Admiral [Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ... with Smith in early 1800. However, British Admiral Keith reneged on this treaty ...
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  • In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy, recruited Fleming (then a reserve ...
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  • mountain. He named it in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. In 1833, Dr. William Fraser Tolmie explored the area looking for medicinal ...
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