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William Henry Maxwell (Royal Navy officer)

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from February 1887 to December 1888. He returned to England and was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1889 and Vice-Admiral in 1894. He was placed on the Retired List in 1895, and he was advanced to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List in 1900.
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destroyed approximately 33 villages as well as cutting down fruit trees and destroying canoes in reprisal for the
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He was promoted to Mate, then to the rank of Lieutenant, in January 1860, when he was serving in
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in the Pacific Ocean. He was made Commander on 6 July 1866. During 1868 and 1869, he served on
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The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific
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The Lives and Times of Resident Traders In Tuvalu: An Exercise in History from Below
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was sent to investigate the death of Lieutenant Bower and four crew of the schooner
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Maxwell entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1854. He served in the frigate
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spend 2 months attempting to locate the attackers. Being unable to do so the
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from May 1856 to March 1860. He was transferred to the
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in 1854–1856, and was appointed Midshipman in 1856.
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Index

William Henry Maxwell (Royal Navy)
Admiral
Admiral
Emerald (1876)
HMS Neptune (1874)
Commodore in Charge at Hong Kong
Royal Navy
Admiral
Cape of Good Hope Station
Australia Station
Hong Kong
HMS Euryalus (1853)
Baltic Campaign
HMS Boscawen (1844)
Cape of Good Hope Station
HMS Lyra (1857)
Seychelles
HMS Sutlej (1855)
HMS Octavia (1849)
HMS Dryad (1866)
Madagascar
the School of Gunnery, Portsmouth
Emerald (1876)
Pacific Station
HMS Sandfly
Nggela Islands
Ellice Islands
HMS Neptune (1874)
Channel Fleet
Commodore in Charge at Hong Kong

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