biography
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| lived:
| (1835–1905)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Fairfax Co, Virginia, USA. The nephew of Robert E Lee, he trained at West Point (1856) and led Confederate cavalry in the Virginia theatre during the Civil War. He was governor of Virginia (1886–90), US consul general to Cuba (1896–8), and commanded the US VII Corps in Cuba following the Spanish-American War (1899–1901). |
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