Does any one know who captain john Newport was?
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I don't know if this is the right one looked it up you see.\ncaptain john Newport wounded Jan28 1864 while on a scouting expedition near jonesville Virginia. He died the following day at 12.30pm hope it helps.added this would have been civil war 1861-1864 you sure navy is right?
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on the internet goto http://whowhere.com\nyou can type the name and find out lots of information there
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Nicholas Berg\n\nhttp://www.lonetraveller.com/article2.html
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I always start with internet searches. The more information you have, the easier it is-The fugitive's name? The year? Even if you don't do some searches, possibly using different search engines. I like to use a Google News search to see what happened with something I had seen in previous news. It takes some patience and research sometimes but it's rare I can't find some information on the internet! Try search terms, Capetown, fugitive, UK and any other info you know. Good luck.
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Colonel Thomas Blood, known as the 'Man who stole the Crown Jewels'.\nArticle at site below
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"Joseph Ranger, a free man of color who enlisted in Virginia's navy in 1776, served on four ships during the American Revolution. He, like many other African Americans, devoted his life to the United States, only to be thrust into the most dangerous situations by the same organization he was so readily willing to defend. Most of the blacks who served in the Revolutionary navy were, for the most part, orderlies or ordinary seamen. A few fortunate African Americans were able to work their way up to pilots, but this was extremely rare."\n\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_n1_v61/ai_20787857
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haha, most recent? umh..how bout he became the capt of west indies FOR THE 3RD TIME! \nand the 400 he scored, other ppl gave u the date and location!
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Yes, I read about it.\n\nHere's the Navy's official version:\nhttp://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm
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Please take the time to\nvote for the best answer\n\nThank You!!\n\nThis is two of many other possibilities, please give more detail if these are not the one you are looking up\n\nSir Horatio Thomas Austin (1801-1865), Admiral and explorer - [ Traduire cette page ]National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for Sir Horatio Thomas Austin including Sir Horatio Thomas Austin by Stephen Pearce,\nwww.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp00181 - 17k - En cache - Pages similaires \n\n\nSir Thomas Austin (1887-1976), Prime Minister of Kolhapur State - National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for Sir Thomas Austin including Sir Thomas Austin by Walter Stoneman,\nwww.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp80853 - 16k - En cache - Pages similaires
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I think he was a riverboat pilot.\n\nYep - a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi.  See the link below.
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Was it puppet master?
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It very debatable, but the most likely person was John Dickenson.\nhttp://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/editorial/98/07/05/7-5-safire.0-0.html
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Alexander Selkirk - the Real Robinson Crusoe?\n\nFrequently history is stranger than fiction and none more so than in the tale of Alexander Selkirk: the real-life Robinson Crusoe. \n\nBorn in 1676, the seventh son of a cobbler, Alexander Selkirk grew up in Lower Largo, Fife. At the age of 19 he found himself in trouble with the Kirk Session after his brother’s trick of making him drink sea water resulted in a family fight. Before his case was heard, Selkirk fled to sea hoping to make his fortune through privateering (effectively legalised piracy on the King’s enemies) against Spanish vessels off the coast of South America. \n\nWithin a few years his skill at navigation led to his appointment as Sailing Master on the ‘Cinque Ports’, a sixteen gun, ninety ton privateer. The expedition was a disaster. The captain of the ship was a tyrant and after a few sea battles with the Spanish, Selkirk feared the ship would sink. So, in an attempt to save his own life he demanded to be put ashore on the next island they encountered. In September 1704, Selkirk was castaway on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra (today known as Robinson Crusoe Island), over 400 miles off the West Coast of Chile. He took with him a little clothing, bedding, a musket and power, some tools, a Bible and tobacco. \n\nAt first Selkirk simply read his Bible awaiting rescue, but it soon became apparent that the rescue wasn’t imminent. He resigned himself to a long stay and began to make island life habitable with only rats, goats and cats for company in his lonely vigil. \n\nAfter several years of isolation, two ships drew into the island’s bay. Selkirk rushed to the shore, realising a little late that they were Spanish. Their landing party fired, forcing him to flee for his life although he managed to evade capture and the Spaniards eventually departed.\n\nFinally On 1st of February 1709, two British privateers dropped anchor offshore. Alexander lit his signal fire to alert the ships, who dispatched a rather astonished landing party to find a ‘wildman’ dressed in goat skins. Remarkably the privateers’ pilot was William Dampier, who had led the Selkirk’s original expedition and was able to vouch for the ‘wildman’. \n\n\nSelkirk had spent four years and four months of isolation on the island, yet seemed stable when he was found. The experience had, in fact, saved his life. From William Dampier he learnt that he had been right to leave the ‘Cinque Ports’, which had sunk off the coast of Peru with all of its crew drowned except the captain and another seven men, who had survived only to be captured and left to rot in a Peruvian jail. \nSelkirk re-embarked on his career as a privateer and within a year he was master of the ship that rescued him. In 1712 he returned to Scotland £800 richer, and surprised his family as they worshipped at the Kirk in Largo. They had long given him up for dead and were astonished that he was alive, let alone alive in his fine, gold and lace clothes. In 1713 he published an account of his adventures which were fictionalised six years later by Daniel Defoe in his now famous novel: ‘Robinson Crusoe’. \n\nSelkirk, however, could never really readjust to life on the land, and, in 1720, a year after he was immortalised by Defoe, he joined the Royal Navy only to die of fever off the coast of Africa.
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search google .. it will give u full details on this man
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John Parrott\nhttp://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=i&q=1991+snooker+champion
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Do you mean Bishop Wellington Boone?\n\nhttp://www.wellingtonboone.com/
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I heard about it, but I have forgotten his name. Sorry