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Collier, Sir George
Naval officer; entered the British navy in 1761; given command of the Rainbow in 1775, and cruised off the American coast.
In 1777 he captured the American vessel Hancock; destroyed the stores at Machias.
and thirty vessels on the northeast coast; and later he ravaged the coasts of Connecticut and Chesapeake Bay.
On Aug. 14, 1779, he captured the fleet of Commodore Saltonstall on the Penobscot River.
He died April 6, 1795.