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Morison, Samuel Eliot
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| lived:
| (1887–1976)
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| biography:
| Historian and US naval officer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He received a PhD from Harvard (1913) and then served as a private during World War 1. He joined the faculty at Harvard (1925–55) and engaged in a lifetime of research and writing on naval, colonial, and exploration history. An active sailor himself, he displayed his intimate knowledge of the sea, ships, navigation, and other realities in his historical writings. He wrote more than 25 books, including two that won Pulitzer Prizes, Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (1942) and John Paul Jones (1959). He became the historian of US naval operations (1942) and observed naval operations firsthand (1942–5) before writing his History of US Naval Operations in World War 2 (25 vols, 1946–62). He retired from the navy as a rear-admiral (1951), and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964). |
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