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• no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces?
• in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
• the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
• the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar?
• the Capitulations of Santa Fe granted Christopher Columbus the titles of Admiral of the Ocean Sea, the Viceroy, the Governor-General and honorific Don?
• the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?
• in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
• Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War?
• Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
• Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
• British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
• Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars—military attacks on commercial vessels?
• Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel, the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign?
• Dutch admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1655) kept Maarten Tromp's standard raised to maintain morale after the latter died in the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653?
• Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?