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About Geoffrey Hornby
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he saw action at the capture of Acre in November 1840 during the Egyptian–Ottoman War. As a captain, he was assigned to Vancouver Island with a naval brigade where he found a unit of United States troops ready to take over the San Juan Islands in a dispute that became known as the Pig War. Hornby used his powers of diplomacy to facilitate a peaceful handover of the islands to the United States.
Everything about Geoffrey Hornby →- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- Admiral president of the Royal Naval College, Second Sea Lord
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 10, 1825
- Died
- March 3, 1895