Word: napier
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Died. Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, 79, much-decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...