Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
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title:
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
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Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, was a British naval officer. As a junior officer he served in a corvette operating from Zanzibar on slavery suppression missions. Early in the Boxer Rebellion, he led a mission to capture a flotilla of four Chinese destroyers moored to a wharf on the Peiho River. He was one of the first men to climb over the Peking walls, to break through to the besieged diplomatic legations and to free them. During the First World War Keyes was he
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British Royal Navy Officer (1872–1945)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Keyes,_1st_Baron_Keyes
date created:
2005-04-01T00:39:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T22:07:42Z
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