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Alexander Graeme

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Graeme died in Edinburgh on 5 August 1818 aged 76 and was buried in
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Index

Orkney
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Royal Navy
Admiral
HMS Egmont
HMS Kingfisher
HMS Sphinx
HMS Diamond
HMS Pearl
HMS Tartar
HMS Preston
HMS Glory
Nore Command
Seven Years' War
Invasion of Martinique
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
Occupation of Rhode Island
Action of 11 November 1779
Battle of Dogger Bank
WIA
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars

Admiral
Royal Navy
Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
Orkney
sloop

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