biography
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Loring, William W(ing)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–86)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. He interrupted a Florida state legislative career for military service in the Seminole, Mexican, and Mormon Wars. For most of the Civil War he was a Confederate corps commander. Later he commanded the defences of the Khedive of Egypt (1869–79) who designated him a pasha. He returned to the USA for his final years. |
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