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  • text=Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman ...
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  • text=Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28 1596) was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil engineer, and known ...
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  • Admiral Togo's initial plan was to swoop down upon Port Arthur ... On the Russian side, Admiral Stark had the battleships Petropavlovsk ...
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  • In 1782, the French, under Admiral Comte François Joseph Paul ... three actions fought by Guichen against Admiral Rodney in the Battle of ...
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  • general is equal in rank or grade to a four star admiral. In the US Army, a general is junior to a general of the army. In the US Marine Corps, a general ...
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  • Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War ...
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  • the Turtle ship. That ship, coupled with Admiral Yi Sunsin's leadership ... Popular accounts credit Admiral Yi Sunsin with designing and building ...
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  • #039;s first modern warship. Later, after Admiral Shufeldt protested the treatment ... in Pyongyang, Korea. The navy dispatched Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt to ...
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  • of the French Far Eastern Squadron, Rear Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze harbored ... initiative with Chinese authorities, Rear Admiral Roze made his own military ...
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  • |race= Massachusetts Handicap (1937)Match race against War Admiral ... #039;s stunning victory over War Admiral, the Triple Crown winner ...
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  • or benefit for the British military, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane saw ... The next day, Admiral Cockburn entered the building of the D.C newspaper ...
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  • the German military. British Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay planned the ... Preparations for the evacuation began on May 22. Vice Admiral Micheal ...
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  • the title of Yumyeong Sugun Dodok (Admiral of the Fleet of Ming China ... . During the war, Ryu's support of Admiral Yi provided vital to Yi ...
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  • operating out of Istanbul, under Rear Admiral Souchon, engaging Russian ... In October 1939, Dönitz became a Rear Admiral and commander of submarines; ...
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  • Egypt. Despite this auspicious beginning, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's ... with the British, but the senior British Admiral refused to honor the terms ...
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  • Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his ...
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  • Admiral Arthur Phillip RN (October 11, 1738 – August 31, 1814) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. Phillip was appointed ...
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  • Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (September 9, 1754 – December 7, 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator ...
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  • [[Image:Angelo Bronzino 048.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|Genoese admiral ... Bronzino's rendition of Genoese admiral Andrea Doria (see picture above). ...
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  • took off on a bad start when Won Gyun took Admiral Yi's place as commander. ... Because Admiral Yi, the commander of the Korean navy, proved so able ...
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  • of the mausoleum (türbe) of the Grand Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, which ... he built a mosque at Beşiktaş for Grand Admiral Sinan Pasha which was a ...
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  • was chosen by the buccaneers as their admiral. He was an incredible leader ... * Allen, Hubert Raymond. Buccaneer Admiral Sir Henry Morgan. London: ...
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  • By the summer of 1597, Jonson had a fixed engagement in the Lord Admiral ... begun to write original plays for the Lord Admiral's Men; and in 1598 ...
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  • British lost none. The British commander Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died ... the French Revolution. As a result, Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ...
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  • the flugelhorn solo on "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paul and ... title=Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney |url=https://www ...
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  • water faster than it could be bailed. The Admiral of the Company, Sir George ... 142 castaways on board, including Rolfe, Admiral Somers, Stephen Hopkins ...
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  • from the navy, commanded by Pothos Argyros and Admiral Alexios Mosele. In March 921, the opposing forces clashed in the battle of Pegae where the ...
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  • flag was said to have been brought back by Admiral F.W. Kennedy. [https://www ... a British force, under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, conquered ...
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  • of the Battle of the Saintes, in which Admiral George Rodney defeated the ... of Sciences. He obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1794, having ...
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  • For subsequent operations, Admiral Ernest J. King and other members ... Shō-Go 1 called for Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's fleet, known ...
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  • bringing off the Prince William Henry and Admiral Digby merits applause, and ... in 1788, and was promoted to Rear-Admiral in command of HMS Valiant ...
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  • , who was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral who dominated the Mediterranean ... In April 1655, English Admiral Robert Blake (1599—1657) was sent ...
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  • Isoroku Yamamoto(Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku) (April 4,1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of ...
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  • infighting between the Navy's GHQ and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s Combined ... Admiral Yamamoto succeeded in winning a bureaucratic struggle, placing ...
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  • Operation Chromite. A briefing led by Admiral James Doyle concluded "the ... (the Army Chief of Staff, left) and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman (the ...
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  • to fight!" His later service as an admiral in the Russian Navy brought ... French, with a nine gun salvo fired from Admiral Piquet’s flagship. Jones ...
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  • defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón ... Spanish Admiral Cervera, who had arrived from Spain, held up his naval ...
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  • Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha ...
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  • Under the direction of Rear Admiral Juan Williams, the Chilean Navy ... Navy did not oblige. Under the command of Admiral Miguel Grau aboard Huáscar ...
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  • James was appointed Lord High Admiral and commanded the Royal Navy ... to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral. His conversion to Catholicism ...
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  • Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28 1596) was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil engineer, and known slave ...
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  • by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), and Admiral Zhou Luohou (周羅睺) ... a Goguryeo fleet totaling 50,000 led by Admiral Gang I sik, presumably on ...
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  • Although born into a distinguished Anglican family and the son of ... were extremely distressing to his father, Admiral Sir William Penn, who had ...
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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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