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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 ...

In 1782, the French, under Admiral Comte François Joseph Paul ... three actions fought by Guichen against Admiral Rodney in the Battle of ...

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 ...

the Turtle ship. That ship, coupled with Admiral Yi Sunsin's leadership ... Popular accounts credit Admiral Yi Sunsin with designing and building ...

#039;s first modern warship. Later, after Admiral Shufeldt protested the treatment ... in Pyongyang, Korea. The navy dispatched Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt to ...

of the French Far Eastern Squadron, Rear Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze harbored ... initiative with Chinese authorities, Rear Admiral Roze made his own military ...

|race= Massachusetts Handicap (1937)Match race against War Admiral ... #039;s stunning victory over War Admiral, the Triple Crown winner ...

or benefit for the British military, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane saw ... The next day, Admiral Cockburn entered the building of the D.C newspaper ...

the German military. British Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay planned the ... Preparations for the evacuation began on May 22. Vice Admiral Micheal ...

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 ...

Egypt. Despite this auspicious beginning, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's ... with the British, but the senior British Admiral refused to honor the terms ...

operating out of Istanbul, under Rear Admiral Souchon, engaging Russian ... In October 1939, Dönitz became a Rear Admiral and commander of submarines; ...

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his ...

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN (October 11, 1738 – August 31, 1814) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. Phillip was appointed ...

Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (September 9, 1754 – December 7, 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator ...

[[Image:Angelo Bronzino 048.jpg|thumbnail|220px|right|Genoese admiral ... Bronzino's rendition of Genoese admiral Andrea Doria (see picture above). ...

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 ...

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 ...

was chosen by the buccaneers as their admiral. He was an incredible leader ... * Allen, Hubert Raymond. Buccaneer Admiral Sir Henry Morgan. London: ...

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 ...

British lost none. The British commander Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died ... the French Revolution. As a result, Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ...

the flugelhorn solo on "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by Paul and ... title=Uncle Albert - Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney |url=https://www ...

water faster than it could be bailed. The Admiral of the Company, Sir George ... 142 castaways on board, including Rolfe, Admiral Somers, Stephen Hopkins ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For subsequent operations, Admiral Ernest J. King and other members ... Shō-Go 1 called for Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's fleet, known ...

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 ...

, who was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral who dominated the Mediterranean ... In April 1655, English Admiral Robert Blake (1599—1657) was sent ...

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 ...

infighting between the Navy's GHQ and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s Combined ... Admiral Yamamoto succeeded in winning a bureaucratic struggle, placing ...

Operation Chromite. A briefing led by Admiral James Doyle concluded "the ... (the Army Chief of Staff, left) and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman (the ...

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 ...

defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón ... Spanish Admiral Cervera, who had arrived from Spain, held up his naval ...

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 ...

Under the direction of Rear Admiral Juan Williams, the Chilean Navy ... Navy did not oblige. Under the command of Admiral Miguel Grau aboard Huáscar ...

James was appointed Lord High Admiral and commanded the Royal Navy ... to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral. His conversion to Catholicism ...

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 28 1596) was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, civil engineer, and known slave ...

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 ...

Although born into a distinguished Anglican family and the son of ... were extremely distressing to his father, Admiral Sir William Penn, who had ...

writing for the popular theater company, The Admiral's Men. Unlike Shakespeare, Middleton remained a free agent, able to write for whichever company ...

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 ...

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 ...

pirates and corsaires, including English admiral and privateer Sir Francis ... In March 1741, British and American colonial troops led by Admiral ...

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 ...

fell to the U.S. commanders: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General ... Admiral Matome Ugaki was recalled to Japan in February 1945 and given ...

he was buried alongside the greatest British Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson. ==List of Dukes of Wellington (1814)== *Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke ...

ardour of both the fleet and its admiral. He frequently intervened ... the British in the spring of 1794: Rear-Admiral Pierre Vanstabel had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

by a delegation of Greeks led by First Admiral and Prime Minister Constantine ... of Russia (1863-1919) and second Admiral Perikles Ioannidis; ...

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 ...

southern Solomons was conceived by U.S. Admiral Ernest King, Commander in ... Allied expeditionary force was U.S. Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, whose ...

Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Admiral Cunningham, First Sea Lord; Admiral William Leahy, Chief of staff to President Roosevelt, during ...

flank under the command of the Rhodian admiral, Theophiliscus attack the ... On the way back to Rhodes, the Rhodian admiral Theophiliscus died of the ...

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 ...

navarch more than once, he was appointed as a vice-admiral instead, with the clear understanding that this was a mere legal fiction. ...

#039;s High Seas Fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer and the ... Consequently, Admiral Jellicoe led the Grand Fleet of twenty-four ...

point he was styled Viscount Brome. His Brother was Admiral Sir William Cornwallis. An uncle, Frederick, was Archbishop of Canterbury and another uncle ...

the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral K. P. Pilkin, agreed on ... design, but they were overruled by General Admiral Grand Duke Alexei ...

on India's southcoast in 1620. Admiral Ove Gjedde led the expedition that established the colony. The only remaining vestige of this empire ...

Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman ...

for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, Admiral of the Royal Navy" ... *RAdm, January 1901: Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy *VAdm, June 1903: Vice ...

by the Navy and turned over to him by Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. ... torn down a United States flag placed by Admiral Farragut on the United States ...

the challenge in their unique way. After Admiral Perry opened Japan to commerce ... sway in Korea. Japan employed the tactics Admiral Perry used on them to open ...

which sent Colonel Robert Clive and Admiral Charles Watson. They recaptured ... to be distributed at the pleasure of the Admiral and gentlemen of Council. ...

fleet to explore the Persian Gulf shore under his admiral Nearchus. In the meantime, Alexander led the rest of his force back to Persia by the southern ...

The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The ...

In late 1914, the islands were the rendezvous for Admiral Maximilian von Spee's East Asiatic Squadron as he gathered his ships together ...

In 1551, Turgut and the Ottoman admiral Sinan decided to take Malta ... battle of Djerba in May 1560, when Ottoman admiral Piyale Pasha surprised the ...

*The Admiral's Men *The King's Men *King's Revels Children *King's Revels Men *Lady Elizabeth's Men *Leicester's Men ...

In 1510, Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque defeated the Bijapur ... [http://www.indiannavy.nic.in/bptobw.pdf Rear Admiral Satyindra Singh ...

Japan was awoken to Western military might when Admiral Commodore Perry forced the nation to sign a treaty of trade in the 1850s. That spawned an upheaval ...

In 1995, Admiral An Byeongtae , the 20th Chief of Naval Operations ... the highest-ranking officer (four-star admiral) of the ROK Navy. The ROK ...

Leonid Govorov and Ivan Konev, General Shtemenko, Admiral Levchenko and others. == Arrests == Initially, thirty-seven were arrested, but the ...

* Be given the rank of Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Atlantic Ocean) ... Admiral Columbus left from Cádiz, Spain, to find more places on September ...

His wife, the Queen, gave him the title Lord High Admiral for his ... the throne in 1952, the Duke was appointed Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, ...

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO ...

for over seven weeks on Staten Island, Admiral Richard Howe moved 88 frigates ... [[Image:Black Admiral.jpg|thumb|A picture of a black U.S. officer ...

of the repertoire of Alleyn's company, the Admiral's Men, throughout the 1590s. ==The Marlowe Legend== As with other writers of the ...

more times before falling to the English under Admiral Robert Holmes (1622-1692) on January 23, 1664, and finally to the French in 1677. Though under ...

Tokyo. Naval students such as the future Admiral Takeaki Enomoto (who studied ... the Boshin War, under the command of Admiral Enomoto. After the defeat ...

governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. Although Spanish settlers ... governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. Historical information ...

The Admiral's Men performed Doctor Faustus twenty-five times ... that Edward Alleyn, lead actor of The Admiral's Men, devoted his ...

| first = Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony | coauthors = Noel-Baker, Philip | title = Disarmament and Defence | publisher = United Nations [Peacefinder ...

quickly, but due to the skill of the British Admiral Nelson, they were forced to stay for three years. This allowed the 167 scientists, technicians, ...

and back to Russia via Siberia as the secretary of Admiral Putyatin. His travelogue, a chronicle of the trip, The Frigate Pallada (The Frigate Pallas ...

the Eighth Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, were usually ... in the South Pacific, convinced Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, commander ...

overthrown by rightwing officers who made Admiral Alexander Kolchak the new ... Siberia: The Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918-1920. Cambridge ...

of them took place in 1502, by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes and named them after himself (islands of the ...

which declared that the Captain-General or Admiral-General of the Netherlands ... with his followers. He was also appointed Admiral-General of the Netherlands. ...

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 ...

still popular today, including biographies of Admiral Lord Nelson, John Bunyan, and John Wesley, and a historical study of Portugal and Spain where ...

about the defenses of Charleston harbor to Admiral Samuel Dupont, commander of the Union ships guarding Charleston. Smalls became famous as a ...

* Fiske, Bradley A. 1919. From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral. New York: Century Co. ISBN 0548176485 * Hamerla, R. R. 2006. An American Scientist ...

in honor of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (an admiral of the Royal Navy) and the tallest Cascade, Mount Rainier, is the namesake of Admiral Peter Rainier ...

building in central Berlin. He told Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss that he ... Goebbels as Reich Chancellor, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reich President ...

Mahadev Desai stands behind her, and Mirabehn (Admiral Slade's daughter) to the right.]] Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, ...

taken eighty years. He was given the title "Admiral of the Indian Ocean," and the feudal rights over Sines were confirmed. He also was awarded ...

Da Conti, and used during the travels of Admiral Zheng He in the early fifteenth ... them on fire, were invented by the French Admiral Henri-Joseph Paixhans and ...

with distinction during the battle. Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, and Captain ... including Fuchida and Genda, urged Admiral Nagumo to carry out a third ...

spoke directly of the Madagascar Plan with Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Once learning of the new potential of the Plan, Reinhard Heydrich, appointed ...

American aviators Clarence Chamberlin and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, joined ... to missions such as the one that killed Admiral Yamamoto, Lindbergh's ...

In 1558, Turkish admiral Piyale Pasha captured the Balearic Islands ... Andrea Doria, nephew of the famous Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, who had lost ...

expanded during the later 18th century. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson commanded ... *Callo, Joseph F. Nelson Speaks: Admiral Lord Nelson and His Own Words ...

Reserve (RNVR) on the staff of the Rear-Admiral Coastal Services. In 1943 was promoted to Captain (RNVR), and appointed Director of the Combined ...

General Eulji Mundeok at the Battle of Salsu or Admiral Yi Sun-sin at the battles of Hansan and Myeongnyang, which, like Gang's battles, overcame ...

Allies included negotiators such as the U.S. Admiral Mark L. Bristol, who served as the United States High Commissioner and championed Turkish efforts. ...

In 1943, Vice Admiral Lord Mountbatten proposed a plan to retake the ... Although plans had been drawn up and proposed by Vice Admiral Lord ...

representative) of Guelders and an admiral of Flanders. In 1559 he ... was decisively defeated by Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp in the Battle ...

and the island was captured (for which Admiral Byng was court-martialed ... Quiberon Bay on November 20, the British admiral Edward Hawke with 23 ships ...

English-language role was probably that of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in Midway. ... *1968 Admiral Yamamoto - directed by Eiji Tsuburaya *1968 Gion Festival ...

barred them from leaving Soviet Russia). Admiral Kolchak headed the resistance and a provisional Russian government. Britain encouraged him to ...

between 1405 and 1433, led by the great admiral, the Muslim eunuch Zheng ... America in 1421. According to British Admiral Gavin Menzies ...

In 1801, a British fleet under Admiral Parker fought the Battle of Copenhagen, against the Danish Navy in Copenhagen harbor. It was during this ...

(Duarte), and his maternal grandfather had been Admiral of Portugal. He was educated in mathematics and classical Latin at the court of Afonso ...

foreign-educated future leaders, such as Admiral Enomoto Takeaki. French ... 1868, and the bakufu naval forces under Admiral Enomoto continued to hold ...

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March 20, 1793), was a British judge and politician who reached high office in the ...

between France and Great Britain when Admiral Dupetit-Thouars, acting independently of the French government, was able to convince Tahiti's ...

On November 22, 1941, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku ordered the meeting of the Imperial Japanese Navy Strike force for the Attack on Pearl Harbor ...

fleet had won supremacy at sea led by admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa who ... Habsburg aid against Suleiman's chief Admiral. The two sides also entered ...

Britain's winning team for the Admiral's Cup in 1971—while Prime Minister—and also captained the team in 1979. He wrote three non ...

in March 1813, a squadron under Rear Admiral George Cockburn started ... The expedition, led by Admiral Sir George Cockburn and General Robert ...

support vessels. On board the Colorado, Rear Admiral John Rodgers' flag ship, was Frederick F. Low, the United States Ambassador to China. Accompanying ...

The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church in Westminster, London, ...

mission to Staten Island to negotiate with British Admiral Lord Richard Howe, who in union with his brother, Gen. William Howe, was belatedly and idealistically ...

and went on to attain the rank of Vice Admiral. However, his career was ... In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,', Admiral James T. Kirk and ...

In May 1915, the first sea lord, Admiral Lord Fisher, had resigned because of differences of opinion over the operation. By September 1915, it ...

invaded Korea, but the Korean Navy, led by Admiral Yi Sunsin eventually repelled ... until 1392, when Lee Seonggye, also called Admiral Yi, who had heavy support ...

British regulars, bottled up in the city. British Admiral Samuel Graves commanded the fleet that continued to control the harbour. On May 25, Gage received ...

From 1405 to 1433, Admiral Zheng He led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several voyages to the Western Ocean (Chinese name for the Indian ...

#039; work. Aboard his flagship HMS Somerset, Admiral Samuel Graves awoke irritated by the gunfire which he had not ordered. He stopped it, only to ...

States, and Fukuzawa volunteered his services to Admiral Kimura Yoshitake. Kimura's ship, the Japanese warship Kanrin Maru arrived in San Francisco ...

a fleet of 49 ships and 140 smaller craft led by Admiral Charles Saunders. In preparation for the fleet's approach to Quebec, James Cook ...

The New Harbor had been renamed as Keppel Harbor in 1900 after Admiral Sir Henry Keppel of HMS Meander, who carried out an on-site survey to ...

Admiral Edwin T. Layton, at the time chief intelligence officer to the commander of the Pacific Fleet, tells the rest of the story: ...

he was replaced by Admiral John Poindexter. Two days later, Reagan ... *Admiral John Poindexter:John Sutherland, [http://www.guardian.co ...

open sea, and during a storm, her Captain Katsu, Admiral Kimura, and much of the crew fell ill. Manjiro was put in charge and brought the ship to port safely. ...

Image:John_Constable_007.jpg|The Admiral's House in Hampstead, by John Constable, 1822 Image:John Martin - Manfred on the Jungfrau (1837 ...

battleship" (heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee and British ships, the Battle of the River Plate, started several miles off the coast of the ...

marines under the command of the British Vice Admiral Edward Hobart Seymour, the largest contingent being British, was dispatched from Tianjin to Beijing ...

action. The force was commanded by Rear Admiral John "Sandy" Woodward ... M.C. Clapp RN. Contrary to common belief, Admiral Woodward did not command ...

title=Lord High Admiral|before=The Duke of York|after=Prince Rupert ... title=Lord High Admiral|before=The Earl of Nottingham(First Lord of ...

[[China|Chinese]] painting of a giraffe brought by Admiral Zheng He and placed in a Ming Dynasty zoo (AD 1414)]] Female giraffes associate in ...

*The Red Admiral Opal (also known as the Butterfly Stone) Ruby *The DeLong Star Ruby *The Hixon Ruby Crystal *The Midnight Star Ruby ...

fell to a New England-led force. In 1746 Admiral Jean-Batiste, De Roye de ... North Western Atlantic, commanded by the Admiral in Halifax. Halifax became ...

and Admiral of New England who departed this life the 21st of June 1631 Here lyes one conquered, that hath conquered Kings, Subdu’d large Territories ...

repay a large debt owed to William's father, Admiral Penn. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history. The land included ...

(brother of the great-grandfather of the famous admiral and explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern) was appointed the new Governor. This enraged Carloff ...

honor of Lawrence's commanding officer, Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, then regarded as the greatest military hero of the age in England. ...

to cross sides. He was offered the rank of Habsburg Admiral-in-Chief with the governorship of the empire's North African colonies. Although he refused ...

On April 28, Borman wired the following message to German Admiral Karl Dönitz: "Situation very serious… Those ordered to rescue the Führer ...

that included giving him the position of Admiral; governorship for him and his descendants of lands to be discovered; and ten percent of the ...

bombings. The same opinion was expressed by Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the president; General Carl Spaatz, commander of the U.S ...

revolution, with Pratt communicating with Admiral Dewey by telegram, passing ... In Cavite, Aguinaldo reports meeting with Admiral Dewey, and recalls: ...

both the Oak Leaves and Swords (including Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (posthumously); 27 with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. ...

* Zheng He (1371-1433)--Famous admiral who led huge Chinese fleets of exploration around the Indian Ocean. * Judar Pasha (late sixteenth century ...

Baron Seymour of Sudeley and was also Lord High Admiral, but now schemed to replace his brother as Lord Protector. Although Catherine was expected ...

Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet, established a colony on the nearby island of Falaika, in the late fourth ...

expedition. It was named after a British admiral, Samuel Hood. The Multnomah tribe's name for Mount Hood is "Wy'east." Legend ...

On his succession he became Admiral of the Fleet in the Navy, Field Marshal in the Army, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Titles, Orders, and ...

039;t build anything like that," said admiral. The planned specs reflects ... carriers, the only operational carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov was insufficient ...

in June (see below). An attack by the Venetian admiral Giovanni Cappello on the Turkish fleet at Chania Bay in August failed, as did his attempt to break ...

instance, in the past, that his father had been an admiral in the French navy, when in fact he had only been a lieutenant and that his mother had been ...

the Revolutionaries assisted by the French admiral d'Estaing and a French ... and was a victory of a British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney over a ...

Spanish authorities were wary of the Portuguese admiral and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, and switched his crew of mostly Portuguese men with ...

left England under the Company's admiral, Sir George Somers, to relieve ... with news of the victory and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson. ...

nelson statue.jpg|thumb|right|250px|British Admiral Horatio Nelson statue on Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, Barbados.]] The earliest inhabitants ...

Reform of the navy was also suggested, and a dispute arose between Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who favored increased spending and a broad ...

in the invasion, under the command of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (who ... and bombardment at the beaches, was Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. The ...

was sunk in Manila Bay by the fleet of U.S. Admiral George Dewey. Aguinaldo, who had already agreed to a supposed alliance with the United States ...

Under orders from De Gaulle, Admiral Émile Muselier organized the liberation of St. Pierre and Miquelon, without the consent or knowledge of ...

for generations. His father was an admiral of the Royal Navy and his maternal grandfather was an earl. Swinburne was raised in an environment ...

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 sent ...

The Hungarian state was restored by the Entente powers, helping Admiral Horthy into power in November 1919. On December 1, 1919 the Hungarian ...

*Nichols, A. Bryant Jr. Captain Christopher Newport: Admiral of Virginia. Sea Venture, LLC., 2007. ISBN 0615140017 *Pollard, John Garland. The ...

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 ...

Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...

officers) to a captaincy in the Lord High Admiral's Regiment. ... threatened to retire from government; Admiral Russell, now commander-in ...

while Wolfe Tone took part in a third, under Admiral Bompard, with General Hardy in command of a force of about 3000 men. This encountered an English ...

According to former Surgeon General and retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Dr. Harold M. Koenig, although DDT "provides the most effective, ...

Those who died at Katyn included one admiral, two generals, 24 colonels ... Bohatyrewicz (ret.), Xawery Czernicki (admiral), Stanisław Haller (ret ...

Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805. The Royal ...

A U.S. Admiral assured the Filipinos that the U.S. "was rich in territory and money and needed no colonies." Gottfried (2006), 52. ...

Only the Guillaume Tell with Rear Admiral [Pierre-Charles Villeneuve ... with Smith in early 1800. However, British Admiral Keith reneged on this treaty ...

It is alleged that Astiochus, a Spartan Admiral, was sent orders to kill ... sent a secret letter to the Spartan Admiral, Astyochus, to tell him ...

of the fledgling United States Navy and later admiral of the Russian Navy, John Paul Jones, confirmed these doubts. In either event, the mission ...

bridge, standing next to Task Force Commander Admiral Alan G. Kirk, observing the landings through binoculars, his ears plugged with cotton to muffle ...

1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the Lord High Admiral, took advantage of this weakness by hatching a plot to depose Somerset. Lord Seymour's conspiracy ...

scandal weakened the prestige of the U.S. Under Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, the Soviet Union also became a global naval power for the first time. The Soviet ...

from the extinct noble family of Vice-Admiral d'Estaing, that name being adopted by his grandfather in 1922, by reason of a distant connection ...

he could not return to Berlin, he joined Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, who by then was commanding all the German forces within the northern part of the ...

The flag was said to have been brought back by Admiral F.W. Kennedy. [https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-557 West African flag ...

His paternal grandfather was Vice-Admiral John "Foulweather Jack" Byron, who had circumnavigated the globe, and was the younger brother ...

Sea, plus a large number of smaller vessels. Admiral Nakhimov was mortally wounded in the head by a sniper shot, and died on June 30, 1855. The city ...

the city nearly to ruins. At this time, a British admiral intervened and facilitated an armistice, by which the Neapolitan royal troops and warships surrendered ...

the crew of the Russian battle ship General-Admiral Apraksin as well as stranded Finnish fishermen were saved in the Gulf of Finland because of ...

enemy with a large standing army. In Admiral Jervis's famous phrase, "I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say ...

The British Admiral William Penn, father of William Penn of Pennsylvania, and General Venables, seized the island for England nearly 200 years ...

next to his Naval Academy classmate Admiral Charles R. Larson. ... discovered that his father was an admiral. His status as a prisoner ...

Corsican leader Pasquale Paoli agreed with admiral Samuel Hood to place Corsica ... On February 14, British admiral Jervis met and defeated a Spanish ...

Hector de Villars at Friedlingen. The English admiral Sir George Rooke also won an important naval battle, the Battle of Vigo Bay, which resulted in ...

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville, French explorer and naval officer. ...

British government and Paulet's superior, Admiral Richard Thomas. Thomas repudiated Paulet's actions, and on July 31, 1843, restored the Hawaiian ...

* 1931 The Floating Admiral written together with G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club. ...

by events such as the birthdays of Admiral Edward Vernon, or John Wilkes. Under George II and George III, with the exception of the Jacobite ...

to the U-boat fleet to breach the London Rules, Admiral Chester Nimitz stated that unrestricted submarine warfare was carried on in the Pacific Ocean ...

with Spain and Portugal, but in 1604 a Dutch admiral seized the Portuguese ship Santa Catarina. The Dutch East India Company asked Grotius to write ...

sent to Rhode Island to co-operate with the French admiral d'Estaing, in an expedition (the Battle of Rhode Island) which proved unsuccessful. In ...

a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral (then Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne), a body which oversaw naval affairs ...

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 ...

Within a month Prince Louis de Condé and Admiral Gaspard de Coligny ... Three days later, Admiral Coligny was walking back to his rooms from ...

James Cook stopped briefly in 1774, and a French admiral and explorer, Comte de La Pérouse, spent 11 hours on the island in 1786. A bay on the north ...

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 ...

In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee ... Hitler thought that the Hungarian leader, Admiral Miklós Horthy, might no ...

were cognizable in the courts of the Lord High Admiral. English admiralty vice-admiralty judges emphasized that "neither Faith nor Oath is to ...

lead to the Tirpitz Plan, implemented by Admiral von Tirpitz, who would also ... Punitive Expedition led by the British Admiral Harry Rawson captured, burned ...

Central Intelligence Agency were established. Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was appointed as the first Director of Central Intelligence. ...

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Russia, and Sweden. In October 1805, the British Admiral, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, won a crushing victory in the Battle of Trafalgar, ensuring ...

Graaff, surrendered the island to the British Admiral Rodney. Ten months later the island was conquered by the French, allies of the Dutch in this war ...

named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, and French captain, Louis Isidore Duperrey, after a British captain ...

The invasion fleet, led by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, was split into ... staff, were eager to launch the invasion. Admiral Bertram Ramsay was prepared ...

that would lead from Europe to Asia. Portuguese admiral Antonio da Saldanha named Table Mountain in 1503. The Khoi inhabitants, who were were herders ...

earliest group of Hispano-Moresque carpets, Admiral carpets (also known as armorial carpets), has an all-over geometric, repeat pattern punctuated by ...

attacks by pirates and privateers. Ottoman Turkish admiral and privateer Kemal Reis ventured into the Canaries in 1501, while Murat Reis the Elder captured ...

Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers ...

cavalry, which came under the leadership of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Henry of Navarre and the House of Bourbon allied themselves to the Huguenots ...

state recognition of the Jewish faith, Admiral Verhuell declared himself unable to forgive the Jews whom he had met during his travels either ...

contact with the Vichy France governor, Admiral Decoux. At the same time, these agents kept in contact with local Vietnamese chief Mandarin ...

and French sent gunboats under the command of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour to capture the Taku forts (大沽炮台) near Tianjin in May of 1858. These ...

In 1344, Pope Clement VI named French admiral Luis de la Cerda Prince of Fortune, and sent him to conquer the Canaries. In 1402, Jean de Bethencourt ...

5, 1943, the Japanese garrison commander Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara ordered the execution of the 98 prisoners on the pretext that they were ...

Hill Gym, was a gift to Fordham University by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from a Japanese naval vessel sunk during World War II. It was blessed by Cardinal ...

in rank than a captain but lower in rank than an admiral. Since the term was used most during the nineteenth century, Vanderbilt's mascot is usually ...

Seven United Netherlands, eventually won by Admiral Robert Blake in 1654. Cromwell's absolute insistence on religious freedom, for all except ...

and March 29, 1895 Japanese forces under Admiral Motonori Kabayama landed in northern Taiwan and proceeded to occupy it. <!-- filename=Naval ...

(1761-1838). Of her brothers, James became an admiral and sailed with Captain James Cook on his second and third voyages. The younger Charles Burney ...

attacks until August 1762, when the British under Admiral Sir George Pocock (1706-1792) besieged the city for three-months, and held it as a prize of ...

of Urabi's gun emplacements by Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour and the subsequent landing of British troops to restore order to the city. ...

maintained its own squadron, under its own admiral. Although they were crewed ... war of independence, although the British Admiral Edward Codrington nearly ...

defeat. That war also saw the brilliant career of Admiral Yi Sunsin and his "Turtle ship" or gobukseon. In the 1620s and 1630s Joseon suffered ...

Dutch in Java. The war was swiftly conducted by Admiral Robert Stopford, General Wetherhall, and Colonel Gillespie, who led a well organized army against ...

and not until 1862 that the rank of “Admiral” was introduced. ... (Oral statement by the American Navy admiral).png|thumb|300px|A Japanese ...

June 23, of skilled commander Dragut, a corsair and admiral of the Ottoman fleet, was a serious blow. The Turkish commanders, Piyale Pasha and Mustafa ...

[[File:Major General Patton and Rear Admiral Hewitt on USS Augusta ... on the battlefield. He was an admirer of Admiral Horatio Nelson for his actions ...

politics. Tamandaré was replaced in command by the admiral Joaquim José Inácio, future Viscount of Inhaúma. Osório organized a 5,000-strong third ...

various high profile positions as a Lieutenant Admiral, a General, and an Inspector General of the Armed Forces. The Prince resigned from his positions ...

*Galvano, Antonio, and Vice-Admiral Bethune (Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune) (ed.) (1862). The Discoveries of the World, from Their First ...

Island in honor of the eighteenth-century British admiral John Jervis. It has an area of 4.9 square kilometers (1.9 mi²) and a maximum altitude ...

China and died there. At that time, the Chinese admiral Zheng He described a visit to a large trading port at Po-ni where numerous Chinese traders ...

Middle East Headquarters and on April 17 Rear admiral H. T. Baillie-Grohman was sent to Greece to prepare for the evacuation.McClymont, 362. That day ...

Jim Morrison was the son of United States Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clark Morrison, who met in Hawaii in 1941, where Stephen ...

House in 1969 or 1970, when Woodward was an aide to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivering papers to the White House ...

as his family's private estate. The British Admiral William Penn, father of William Penn of Pennsylvania, and General Venables seized the island ...

a mile wide. A massive fleet under the command of Admiral de Robeck containing no fewer than 16 battleships tried to advance through the Dardanelles ...

proper is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum, gold ...

consumer industries. Bhutto also, with advice from Admiral S.M. Ahsan, inaugurated Port Qasim, designed to expand harbor facilities near Karachi. However ...

argues that both nations adopted U.S. Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan's ... general mutiny was rife. Naval commander Admiral Reinhard Scheer and Ludendorff ...

Churchill obtained assurances from French admiral François Darlan that the ... The British began to doubt Admiral Darlan's promise to Churchill ...

to troop transport duty as a personal aide to Admiral Albert Gleaves. He also saw service on the USS Great Northern and USS Seattle. ...

but the possibility was extinguished after Admiral Lord Nelson's famous victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. The setbacks in Europe took ...

Archival Program containing the Archives of Admiral Richard E. Byrd as well as a significant collection of polar research materials, the Hilandar Research ...

23, 1959, 131–36. The Black Sea Fleet commander, Admiral Grigory Chukhnin, generally seen as responsible for the tragedy, ordered Kuprin to leave Sevastopol ...

visit to Kochi in the fifteenth century as part of Admiral Zheng He's treasure fleet. {{cite book | author =Ma Huan: Ying Yai Sheng Lan — ...

Local resistance slowed down the Japanese advance while Admiral Yi Sunsin's decisive naval victories gave Korea control over Japan's ...

In the spring of 1861, Counselor Harry Parkes and Admiral Herbert were sent to Wuhan to open the trading port. Based on the Convention of Peking, Harry ...

* The Floating Admiral (1931) (Written with members of The Detection Club, a chapter each) * Ask a Policeman (1933) (Written with members of The ...

the name "Nelson," after the British admiral Horatio Nelson, by a Methodist teacher. His father died of tuberculosis when Rolihlahla was ...

In 1528, admiral Andrea Doria allied with the Emperor to oust the ... Portuguese expeditions, beginning with admiral Fradique de Toledo's ...

German forces into Spain. During World War II, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris had regular meetings with France and informed Franco of Germany's attitude ...

perhaps because of the stringent demands of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who was the driving force behind nuclear marine propulsion. The U.S. Navy has ...

again; on that day a U.S. Navy group led by Rear Admiral George Dufek successfully landed an aircraft there. ==Geography== [[Image:Maritime-Antarctica ...

has studied documentation that shows Chinese admiral Zheng He and his treasure ships visited Sri Lanka six times, as envoy to the Ming Dynasty emperor ...

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford about the possibility of U.S. involvement. Radford concluded it was too late ...

Karachi harbour), from where Alexander's admiral Nearchus sailed for back home; and Barbarikon, a sea port of the Indo-Greek Bactrian kingdom. To ...

Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet, established a colony on Falaika, in the late fourth century B.C.E., which ...

*Pavel Vasilievich Chichagov - Admiral ;French List of French commanders in the Russian 1812 Campaign * Louis Alexandre Berthier - 1st Duc de ...

by the Ottoman Turks. Later, in 1510, Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque defeated the ruling Bijapur kings with the help of a local ally, Timayya ...

As the former member of Parliament Admiral Robert Blake blockaded Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Cromwell was able to land at Dublin ...

Celtic nobles, as well as a single half-Sardinian admiral who was elevated simply by virtue of his own ability. Owing to this social organization ...

with covert support from the First Sea Lord Admiral Jackie Fisher campaigned for more with the slogan "we want eight and we wont wait.' ...

(SACT), a US four-star general or admiral with the dual-hatted role as commander US Joint Forces Command (COMUSJFCOM). There is also an ACT command ...

him, a governor, a general, and by the 1750s, an admiral. Historical information on kings is often obscured by the fact that many of the kings were ...

fleet to explore the Persian Gulf shore under his admiral Nearchus, while he led the rest of his forces back to Persia by the southern route through the ...

Many of the naval leaders in Japan, such as Fleet Admiral Isoroku ... led the whole country to war. Fleet Admiral Yamamoto, who had to lead ...

Colchis, where he met his legate Servilius, the admiral of his Euxine fleet, Pompey resolved to leave these districts. He accordingly retraced his steps ...

Thomas Kida have each argued that U.S. Navy Admiral Husband E. Kimmel showed confirmation bias when playing down the first signs of the Japanese attack ...

used as evidence against them before they escaped. Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, the British High Commissioner, described the destruction ...

Grant (a future president), General Sherman, and Admiral Porter in an 1865 meeting on the steamer River Queen. When Richmond the Confederate capital ...

Built between 1718 and 1728 for Admiral George Delaval, it replaced the existing house on the site. It is possible that the design of Seaton ...

British Naval Expedition (1821-1823) led by Admiral William Edward Parry, which twice over wintered in Foxe Basin, provided the first informed, sympathetic ...

to ruins. With the intervention of a British admiral, an armistice was declared, leading to the Neapolitan troops' departure and surrender ...

geologist and a Naval Reserve Rear Admiral, and Robert S. Dietz, a scientist with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey who first coined the term ...

returned to Murshidabad. On January 2, 1757, Admiral Watson and Robert Clive retook Calcutta with a force of Company sepoys and the assistance of the ...

tried at Nuremberg, behind Reich President (former Admiral) Karl Dönitz and former Deputy Führer Hess. Göring's last days were spent with Captain ...

but the Ming admiral Zheng He deposed that line in 1409. The Arya Chakaravarthi dynasty ruled over large parts of northeast Sri Lanka until 1619 ...

Sklute, USAF Judge Advocate General, US Navy Rear Admiral James Lair, Director of Operations for the US Navy in Europe, US Army Captain Michael Nye ...

frequent visits, some captained by the Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho, and brought Chinese products to the empire's 300 ports, large and small, on the ...

Marines, the 61st Foot, which was under the British Admiral Edward Vernon's command in 1739 during the War of Jenkin's Ear. Lawrence continued ...

and Pacific fleets. He was later selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover for the United States Navy's fledgling nuclear submarine program, where ...

of the 470-ship French Navy, overall commanded by Admiral Bouet-Villaumez, were put to sea on July 22, 1870. Before too long, the French navy suffered ...

siege of Sevastopol. The proposal was backed by Admiral Thomas Cochrane of the Royal Navy. It was considered by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston ...

drama Task Force (1949), about a retiring rear admiral who reminisces about his long career as a naval aviator and his role in the development of aircraft ...

allied with the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Admiral Barbarossa captured Nice in August 1543 and handed it down to Francis I. During the sixteenth ...

woman in the Norwegian armed forces is that of Rear Admiral. [http://www.mil.no/languages/english/start/article.jhtml?articleID=152119 Forsvarnett: ...

Hitler was succeeded by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reich President only. Dönitz was not to replace Hitler as the Führer or even as the Reich ...

In 490 B.C.E. the admiral Datis and Artaphernes gathered another Persian expeditionary force in Cilicia with the intention to go to Attica and ...

The American commanders at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter Short, were taken completely by surprise and were later ...

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as 1934. He was protected by the Abwehr chief, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Oster was able to build up an extensive clandestine network of potential resisters ...

The new admiral had conceived of what came to be known as the "Risk theory" or the Tirpitz Plan, by which Germany could force Britain ...

other Nazi leaders and appointed Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident (President of Germany) and Joseph Goebbels as Reichskanzler ...

Urals mountains and enter Siberia in pursuit of Admiral Alexander Kolchak's forces. However, at the same time the situation in the South, where ...

Koxinga's grandson by an armada led by Admiral Shi Lang of southern Fujian, the Qing dynasty formally annexed Taiwan, placing it under the jurisdiction ...

. Franco's declining health gave more power to Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, but he was assassinated by ETA in 1973. Carlos Arias Navarro took over ...

peace of Europe. When Spain attacked Sicily Admiral Byng destroyed the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro. [[Image:Benjamin West 005.jpg|thumb|right ...