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    Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands...
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    Great Britain. It was created in 1782 for the naval commander Sir George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baronet. He had previously been created a Baronet, of Alresford...
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  • Rodney. Secondarily, it came to be used as a given name in the 18th century, originally in honour of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney....
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    November 1769 after Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney. Auckland Council has governed the area since 1 November 2010. The Rodney ward of the Auckland Region...
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  • General George Brydges Rodney, CB (c.1821 – 8 July 1895) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines. Rodney was commissioned...
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    and the King George V class, ordered in 1936. The ships were named after famous British admirals: George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, victor of the...
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  • George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1719–1792) was a British naval officer. George Rodney may also refer to: George B. Rodney (1803–1883), American...
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    was built in 1781–82 to commemorate the naval victories of Sir George Brydges Rodney, Admiral of the White during the American War of Independence. The...
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    George Rodney Brydges or Bridges (after 1649 – 1714), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House...
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    Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710) May 24 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718) June 4 – John Burgoyne...
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    while April is the driest month. The Bay was named after Admiral George Brydges Rodney who formed his fort at Pigeon Island. Pigeon island is a national...
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  • George Brydges may refer to: George Rodney Brydges (died 1714), MP for Winchester and Haslemere George William Brydges (1678–1751), MP for Winchester and...
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    1783–1784 by William Roscoe and others. It was named after George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, who, in 1782, secured a naval victory over the Comte de...
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    Fourth Anglo-Dutch War of 1780–1784. Notably, the British Admiral George Brydges Rodney, having occupied the island for Great Britain in 1781, urged the...
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    Lieutenant-Colonel George Rodney, 2nd Baron Rodney (25 December 1753 – 2 January 1802), was a British soldier and politician. Rodney was the son of Admiral George Rodney...
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  • George Brydges Harley Dennett Rodney, 7th Baron Rodney (28 February 1857 - 29 December 1909) was a British Army officer notable for his service in the...
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  • Robert F. McGowan starring Hoot Gibson based on the novel by Colonel George Brydges Rodney. Produced for Walter Futter's Diversion Pictures, it was rereleased...
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  • Newfoundland HMS Rodney, six ships of the British Royal Navy named after Admiral George Brydges Rodney All pages with titles beginning with Rodney This disambiguation...
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    his wife buying him a place. The former Countess and George Rodney Brydges had one son George Brydges (1678-1751) also an MP, who died childless. The former...
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  • daughter, Mary, married Henry Rodney, and was the mother of George Brydges Rodney, later raised to the peerage as Baron Rodney. The other daughter, Catherine...
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  • counter these. The class was to have consisted of HMS Hood, Anson, Howe, and Rodney — all names of famous admirals — but the other three ships were suspended...
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    George Brydges Rodney (April 2, 1803 – June 18, 1883) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a...
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    Cape Rodney (opposite Little Barrier Island), which Captain James Cook named on 24 November 1769 after Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney. Rodney includes...
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  • of Ceylon (1806–1833). John Rodney was born on 10 May 1765 the third son of Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney and the eldest son to his second...
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    Joseph Paul de Grasse from the West Indies. British Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, who had been tracking de Grasse around the West Indies, was alerted...
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    a brick building dating from the 1750s. The naval hero George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, is buried in the church. His family seat, Old Alresford...
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    General Godfrey Basil Mundy and Sarah Bridges (daughter of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney), Mundy joined the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth as a...
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    Walton-on-Thames: Julie Andrews, actress, singer and author, in 1935. George Brydges Rodney (1718–1792), Royal Navy Admiral. John Carver Meadows Frost, aircraft...
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    voted for Hugh Percy and Thomas Pelham-Clinton in 1774, and for George Brydges Rodney and Charles James Fox in 1780. He is the first person of African...
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    and fort on Barbados was destroyed. According to British Admiral George Brydges Rodney, the winds carried their heavy cannons aloft 100 feet (30 m). The...
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