Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "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."@en }
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- Rodney_Mundy abstract "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.".
- Q7357017 abstract "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.".