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Michael Seymour

Admiral

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Sir Michael Seymour GCB RN

Royal Navy

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(3 December 1802 – 23 February 1887 near Horndean

Horndean

Horndean is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.3 miles north of Havant.The nearest railway station is 2.2 miles southeast of the village at Rowlands Castle railway station....
) was a British

United Kingdom

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admiral

Admiral

Edward Hobart Seymour

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Hobart Seymour Order of the Bath Order of Merit Royal Navy was a United Kingdom Admiral of the Fleet.He was the grandson of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet, and nephew of Admiral Michael Seymour ....
, also an admiral. He was the third son of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet Order of the Bath was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral ....
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Michael Seymour entered the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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in 1813. He made Lieutenant in 1822, Commander in 1824 and was posted Captain in 1826. From 1833 to 1835 he was captain of the survey ship HMS Challenger, and was wrecked in her off the coast of Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
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Admiral

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Horndean

United Kingdom

Admiral

Edward Hobart Seymour

Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
in 1813. He made Lieutenant in 1822, Commander in 1824 and was posted Captain in 1826. From 1833 to 1835 he was captain of the survey ship HMS Challenger, and was wrecked in her off the coast of Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
. From 1851 to 1854 he was Commodore Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard

HMNB Devonport

Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport , is one of three UK operating bases for the Royal Navy . HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, Devon, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England....
. In 1854 he served under Sir Charles Napier

Charles Napier (naval officer)

Admiral Sir Charles John Napier Order of the Bath Order of the Tower and Sword Royal Navy was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War, and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars....
in the Baltic

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
during the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Oriental War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other....
, in the capacity of Captain of the Fleet

Captain of the fleet

In the Royal Navy of the 1700s and 1800s a Captain of the Fleet could be appointed to assist an admiral when the admiral had ten or more ships to command....
. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral that same year and, when the Baltic campaign was resumed in 1855 under Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas

Richard Saunders Dundas

Vice Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, Order of the Bath was a British naval officer and was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland First Sea Lord from 1857 to 1858 and again from 1859 until 1861....
, Seymour was second in command, flying his flag in HMS Exmouth

HMS Exmouth (1854)

HMS Exmouth was a 91-gun screw propelled Albion class ship of the line second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy....
. He was made KCB at the end of 1855.

On 19 February 1856 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the East Indies station, which included the coast of China

China

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. Flying his flag in HMS Calcutta

HMS Calcutta (1831)

HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built in teak to a draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831 in Bombay....
, he conducted the operations arising out of the affair of the lorcha Arrow (Second Opium War

Second Opium War

The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war of the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China from 1856-1860....
); he destroyed the Chinese fleet in June 1857, took Canton

Guangzhou

'Guangzhou' is the Capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province of China in the northern and southern China part of the People's Republic of China....
in December, and in 1858 he captured the forts on the Pei Ho

Hai River

The Hai River , previously called Bai He , is a river in China which flows through Beijing and Tianjin into the Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea....
(Hai River), compelling the Chinese government to consent to the Treaties of Tianjin. He was made GCB in 1859. He sat as a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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for Devonport from 1859 to 1863. In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of admiral

Admiral

Portsmouth

Portsmouth city status in the United Kingdom located in the Counties of England of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is the UK's only island city and is located on Portsea Island....
, till 1866. He retired in 1870.

Michael Seymour

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