ADMIRAL FARRAGUT. CHAPTER I. fAMILY AND EARLY LIfE. t801-181 I. THE lather of Admiral Farragut, George FarraA· gut, was of unmixed Spanish descent, having been born on the 29th of September, 1755, in the island of ~linorca, one of the Batearic group, where the family had been prominent for centuries. One of his ancestors, Don Pedro Ferragut, served with great distinction under James I, King of Aragon, in the wars against the Moors, which resulted in their expulsion from ~lajorca in 1229, and from the kingdom of Valencia, in the Spanish Peninsula, in 1238. As -11"inorca in 1755 was a possession of the British Crown, to which it had been ceded in 1713 by the Treaty of Utrecht, George Farragut was born under the Hritish flag; but in the following year a French expedition, fitted out in Tou)on, succeeding in wresting from the hands of Great Britain both the island and its excellent fortified harbor, Port Mahon, one of the most advantageous naval stations in the 11edTable of Contents...

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