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Admiral of the Fleet Sir (George) Rodney Mundy, GCB (19 April 1805 – 23 December 1884) was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he persuaded the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution and then acted as a mediator during negotiations between the Dutch and the Belgians to end hostilities. As a captain, he was deployed to the East Indies Station and was asked to keep the Sultan of Brunei in line until the British Government made a final decision on whether to take the island of Labuan: he took the Sultan's son-in-law, Pengiran Mumin, to witness the island's accession to the British Crown in December 1846. He was then deployed to the seas of Finland, where he secured Björkö Sound in operations against Russia during the Crimean War. Mundy became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet and, in May 1860, in the Expedition of the Thousand, he conveyed Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian general and politician, and a thousand of his volunteers to Marsala on the West Coast of Sicily. Mundy went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. ==Early career== Born the son of General Godfrey Basil Mundy and Sarah Bridges (daughter of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney), Mundy joined the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth as a cadet in February 1818.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Rodney Mundy )〕 He was appointed as a volunteer to the fifth-rate HMS ''Phaeton'' on the North America and West Indies Station in December 1819 and, having been promoted to midshipman, he transferred to the frigate HMS ''Euryalus'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1822.〔Heathcote, p. 191〕 After a brief tour in the third-rate HMS ''Rochfort'' also in the Mediterranean Fleet, he transferred to the South American Station in April 1824 and then served successively in the fifth-rate HMS ''Blanche'', the sloop HMS ''Jaseur'', the third-rate HMS ''Wellesley'' and finally the second-rate HMS ''Cambridge''.〔 Promoted to lieutenant on 4 February 1826, he joined the sloop HMS ''Eclair'' on the South American Station in July 1826.〔 He then transferred to the sixth-rate HMS ''Challenger'' in February 1828 off Lisbon before moving to the fifth-rate HMS ''Pyramus'' also off Lisbon only a few months later.〔 Promoted to commander on 25 August 1828, Mundy joined the third-rate HMS ''Donegal'' and served as a liaison officer tasked to persuade the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution. He then acted as a mediator during negotiations between the Dutch and the Belgians to end hostilities in May 1833.〔 He became commanding officer of the sloop HMS ''Favourite'' in the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1833.〔 Promoted to captain on 10 January 1837, he became commanding officer of the sixth-rate HMS ''Iris'' in the West Africa Squadron in October 1842.〔 He was then re-deployed with HMS ''Iris'' to the East Indies Station and was involved in operations under Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane.〔 Mundy was asked to keep the Sultan of Brunei in line until the British Government made a final decision on whether to take the island of Labuan: he took the Sultan's son-in-law, Pengiran Mumin, to witness the island's accession to the British Crown on 24 December 1846.〔Saunders, p.78 & 123〕 Some sources state that during the signing of the treaty, the Sultan had been threatened by a British navy warship ready to fire on the Sultan's palace if he refused to sign the treaty while another source says the island was ceded to Britain as a reward for assistance in combating pirates. Mundy became commanding officer of the second-rate HMS ''Nile'' in July 1854 and was deployed, in Spring 1855, to the Baltic Sea and then, in September 1855, to the seas of Finland where he secured Björkö Sound in operations against Russia during the Crimean War.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodney Mundy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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