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Bancroft, George 1800-1891. US diplomat and
historian. A Democrat, he was secretary of
the navy 1845 when he established the US
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and as
acting secretary of war (May 1846) was
instrumental in bringing about the occupation
of California and the Mexican war. He wrote a
History of the United States 1834-76.