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Codrington, Edward (1770–1851)| English admiral. He commanded the Orion at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In 1827 he commanded the combined fleets of Britain, France, and Russia at the Battle of Navarino, in which he destroyed the Turkish navy. |
| He became admiral of the blue in 1837 and was appointed commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, Hampshire, in 1839. |
| Codrington entered the navy in 1793. After Trafalgar, he took part in the expedition to seize Walcheren, in the Netherlands, in 1809, and led the fleet at Washington and Baltimore in the War of 1812. |
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