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Some islands were taken by the French, but Admiral Rodney saved Jamaica by defeating the French fleet at the Battle of Les Saintes in 1782.
Around the same time, he saved the career of Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear fleet, when Rickover was passed over for promotion to admiral in part because of anti-Semitism in the Navy.
His national security adviser, Robert McFarlane, and McFarlane's deputy, Admiral John Poindexter, thought the hostage problem might be solved and the U.S. position in the Middle East improved if the United States quietly negotiated with Iran about exchanging hostages for modest quantities of arms.
When France fell in World War II, the FWI’s administrator, Admiral Georges Robert, decreed allegiance to the Vichy regime, although most of the islanders were against the move.
“ The best ports in the Mediterranean are June, July, August, and Maó,” said the 16th-century Venetian admiral Andrea Doria, noting that beyond the summer sailing season, a fleet couldn’t do better than shelter here.