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| Title | Lives of the British Admirals:: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods, Volume 3 Lives of the British Admirals:: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods, John Berkenhout |
| Author | John Campbell |
| Publisher | G. G. J. and J. Robinsons, 1785 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 23, 2007 |
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