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 Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rainier    
First Name(s)  Peter    
Birth Year  1742    
Death Year  1808    
Entry  Born 1742 : son of Peter Rainier : of a French refugee family, originally Regnier : entered the Navy, 1756 : went to India : in the naval actions of 1758-9 against the French : at the siege of Pondicherry, 1760 : and of Manilla : commanded a ship from 1779 in the actions in the E. Indies, 1779-83 : under Sir E. Hughes, and between him and Admiral Suffrein : friend of the explorer Vancouver, who, in 1792, called a mountain in the U.S. after him : was Naval C. in C. in the E. Indies, 1794-05 : at the taking of Trincomalee, Amboyna and Banda-Neira, 1795-6 : captured many prizes from the French and Dutch : detained the French squadron at Pondicherry : made £250,000 in prize money, and left much of it for the reduction of the National debt : Admiral, 1805 : M.P. for Sandwich : died April 7, 1808     
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