Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sartorius, was an officer of the British Royal Navy.
21 Facts About George Sartorius
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George Sartorius later commanded the navy of Dom Pedro in the Portuguese Civil Wars.
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George Sartorius entered the Navy in June 1801, as a first-class volunteer, on board the yacht Mary, under the command of Captain Sir Harry Burrard-Neale.
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George Sartorius then joined the Tonnant, serving under Captains William Henry Jervis and Charles Tyler, seeing action under the latter at the battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
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In June 1806 George Sartorius joined the Daphne, Captain Francis Mason.
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George Sartorius took part in the capture of Montevideo in February 1807, and participated in various operations in South America.
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George Sartorius was promoted to lieutenant on 5 March 1808, into the frigate Success, Captain John Ayscough.
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On 4 April 1810, George Sartorius commanded the boats of the Success and brig Espoir, at the destruction of two vessels laden with oil, while under a heavy fire, on the beach near Castiglione, and on the 25th he assisted at the capture of an armed ship and three barques close to the castle of Terracina.
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George Sartorius went on to command the fifth-rate Pyramus during 1828.
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In 1831 George Sartorius was engaged to command the small fleet of the ex-Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, Duke of Braganza, in the attempt to defeat his brother Dom Miguel, who had usurped the throne of Portugal, and to install Pedro's daughter as the rightful queen, Dona Maria II.
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George Sartorius conveyed Pedro's expeditionary force from the Azores and safely effected their Landing at Mindelo in July 1832, from where they were able to occupy Porto.
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George Sartorius spent a great deal of his own money in keeping the fleet together.
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In June 1833, George Sartorius handed command over to Captain Sir Charles Napier.
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On 21 August 1841 George Sartorius received a knighthood from the Queen at Windsor Castle, and was appointed to command of Malabar in the Mediterranean.
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Malabar was paid off in 1844, and George Sartorius saw no further service at sea, though he continued to take an active interest in naval affairs, becoming one of the earliest advocates of ram ships.
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George Sartorius was appointed a naval aide-de-camp to the Queen on 9 November 1846 and was promoted to rear-admiral on 9 May 1849.
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George Sartorius served as commander-in-chief at Queenstown, with his flag in the sixth-rate Conway, from 1855 to 1856, receiving promotion to vice-admiral on 31 January 1856, and then to full admiral on 11 February 1861.
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George Sartorius was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 28 March 1865.
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George Sartorius was then appointed the Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty on 1 March 1869 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 2 July 1869.
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George Sartorius was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 23 April 1880.
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George Sartorius died at his home at Lymington in Hampshire on 13 April 1885, and is buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, South Baddesley, while the east window of the nearby Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington is dedicated to him.