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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Arbuthnot, Marriott, -1794
British naval officer; born about 1711; became a post-captain in 1747.
From 1775 to 1778 he was naval commissioner resident at Halifax,
Marriott Arbuthnot. Nova Scotia.
Having been raised to the rank of vice-admiral in 1779, he obtained the chief command on the American station, and was blockaded by the Count d'estaing in the harbor of New York.
In the spring of 1780 he co-operated with Sir Henry Clinton in the siege of Charleston, S. C. In February, 1793, he became admiral of the blue.
He died in London, Jan. 31, 1794.