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Robert Winthrop Simpson
Robert Winthrop Simpson was a Rear-Admiral of the Chilean navy and a hero of the War of the Confederation.
Early life
He was born in England, probably in 1799, and arrived to Chile with the train of then-Lord Cochrane, as a midshipman on the sloop Rose. By 1821 he already was a second lieutenant on the Chilean navy. In the same year, during the independence war of Peru, he participated of the capture in Callao of the Spanish ships Resolucion, San Fernando and Milagro, being promoted as a reward to Captain on October 7, 1821.
Admiral Cochrane gave him the ...
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