biography
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| lived:
| (1795–1871)
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| biography:
| US naval officer, born near Savannah, Georgia, USA. While serving in the US Navy (1812–61) he compromised US neutrality by assisting a hard-pressed British squadron in its attack on a Chinese fort (1859). He explained that ‘blood is thicker than water’, and his action was upheld by the US government. As a Confederate naval officer (1861–5), he commanded the coastal defences of Georgia and South Carolina. |
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