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London (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry cockburn-sir-george
Cockburn, Sir George 1772-1853
Naval officer; born in London, England, April 22, 1772; entered the royal navy in 1783, and was rear-admiral in 1812.
During the spring and summer of 1813 a most distressing warfare was carried on upon land and water by a British squadron, under his command, along the coasts between Delaware Bay and Charleston Harbor.
It was marked by many acts of cruelty.
Chastise the Americans into submission was the substance of the order given to Cockburn by the British and cattle.
Then he visited the Georgia coast, and at Dungenness House, the fine estate of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, on Cumberland Island, he made his headquarters for the winter, sending his marauders out in all directions to plunder the plantations on the neighboring coast.
He was concerned in the sack of Washington in 1814, and in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Baltimore in the same year.
He was knighted in 1815; made a major-general of marines in 1821; and died in London, Aug. 19. 1853.
Elkton (Maryland, United States) (search for this): entry cockburn-sir-george
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Rappahannock (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry cockburn-sir-george
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Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry cockburn-sir-george
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry cockburn-sir-george
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