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Acton, Sir John (Francis Edward)
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| British naval officer in the service of Tuscany and Naples, and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV (reigned 1759–1806), born in Besançon, NE France. He became successively admiral and generalissimo of the Neapolitan forces, and then prime minister. He fell from power on the entry of the French into Naples in 1806 and fled to Palermo in Sicily. |
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