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Francis Augustus Collier : ウィキペディア英語版 | Francis Augustus Collier
Rear Admiral Sir Francis Augustus Collier, CB, KCH (c. 1783〔 – 28 October 1849) was a senior officer of the British Royal Navy during the early nineteenth century. Born into a naval family, Collier served in the French Revolutionary Wars and fought at the Battle of the Nile on Horatio Nelson's flagship. During the Napoleonic Wars he was engaged in campaigns in the West Indies and in 1819 he commanded an operation against pirates in the Persian Gulf. He remained in service for the next thirty years, holding several commands before his death in 1849 as commander of the China Squadron at Hong Kong. == Early life ==
Collier was born in approximately 1783,〔 the son of Admiral Sir George Collier and his wife Elizabeth Fryer. In 1794 he entered the Royal Navy aged 11 and served with the Channel Fleet for several years before being transferred to the Mediterranean to served aboard Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS ''Vanguard''. In 1798, ''Vanguard'' and Collier were engaged at the Battle of the Nile, and he subsequently moved with Nelson to HMS ''Foudroyant'', serving aboard until 1802 and the Peace of Amiens.〔(Collier, Sir Francis Augustus ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', J. K. Laughton, (subscription required), Retrieved 20 March 2009〕
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