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Martin Guise
Martin Guise was a Royal Navy Admiral and veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar who later assumed command of the Peruvian Navy, in whose service he was killed in action in 1829.
Guise was a restless, adventure-loving man. Like Lord Cochrane he had been in the Royal Navy taking part in one of Britain's greatest naval victories, the Battle of Trafalgar, in 1805. When Guise heard of the South American wars of independence he resigned from the Navy, bought his own ship, the "Hecate", and set sail never to return to Britain.
He arrived in Buenos Aires and quickly came ...
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