Charles Wilkes

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Charles Wilkes [1]

American naval officer; made explorations in the Southern Ocean in 1861; boarded on the high seas the British mail-steamer Trent , and carried off two Confederate commissioners accredited to France, who were afterwards released on the demand of the British Government (1798-1877).

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