biography
| name: |
Revere, Joseph Warren
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pronunciation:
[reveer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–80)
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| biography:
| US naval officer and army general, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The grandson of Paul Revere, he was a true adventurer and joined the US Navy as a midshipman (1828). As a naval lieutenant, he raised the US flag at Sonoma during the Mexican War (1846). He resigned from the navy (1850), and while ranching and trading in California he organized the artillery of the Mexican army (1851–2). He rose to the rank of army general during the Civil War, but was dismissed for removing his men from the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863). Lincoln revoked his sentence and he was allowed to resign. In 1872 he published Keel and Saddle: A Retrospective of Forty Years of Military and Naval Service. |
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