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Robert Calder
1745Jul, 13

Robert Calder

Robert Calder, Scottish-English admiral (d. 1818)
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, (2 July 1745 – 31 August 1818) was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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