biography
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Howe, Richard Howe, 1st Earl
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| male
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| lived:
| (1726–99)
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| biography:
| British admiral, born in London, UK, the brother of William Howe. He entered the navy at 13, and distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War (1756–63). He became a Lord of the Admiralty (1763), Treasurer of the Navy (1765), First Lord of the Admiralty (1783), viscount (1782), and earl (1788). In 1776 he was made commander of the British fleet during the American War of Independence. In 1778 he defended the American coast against a superior French force, and in the French Revolutionary Wars defeated the French at ‘the Glorious First of June’ (1794). |
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