biography
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O'Bannon, Presley (Neville)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1776–1850)
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| biography:
| US marine officer, born in Fauquier Co, Virginia, USA. Leading the Marine detachment in the expedition to capture Derna, Libya, during the Tripolitan War (Apr 1805), he helped raise the first American flag ever to fly over foreign soil, hence the ‘shores of Tripoli’ reference in the ‘Marine Hymn’. He resigned in 1807 and lived quietly in Kentucky for more than four decades. |
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