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Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet: Quick Facts

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Born June 1736 • Besançon • France
Died August 12, 1811 (aged 75) • Palermo • Italy
Title / Office prime minister (1785-1806), Kingdom of Naples
Role In French Revolutionary wars
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
British admiral
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Ferdinand I
king of the Two Sicilies
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Maria Carolina
queen of Naples
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André Jeanbon Saint-André
French clergyman
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Ruggiero di Lauria
Italian admiral
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James Saumarez, 1st Baron of Saumarez
British admiral
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Francesco Caracciolo, duke di Brienza
Italian admiral
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Fra Diavolo
Italian guerrilla leader
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Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Baronet
British naval officer
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
Portrait of Sir Francis Drake with a lace ruff collar, mustache, and short curly hair, painted in oil on panel. The background includes his name in gold lettering.
Sir Francis Drake
English admiral
William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
former British prince
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin
English explorer
Northumberland, John Dudley, duke of
John Dudley, duke of Northumberland
English politician and soldier
Robert Blake, portrait miniature by Samuel Cooper; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Robert Blake
British admiral
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Richard Howe, Earl Howe
British admiral
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkins
English naval commander