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BANCROFT (-rär'dê), an American naval officer; born in Jackson, La., Nov. 10, 1832; he entered the navy as midshipman from Massachusetts in 1846, and was at the Naval Academy in 1852. He was lieutenant on the "Lan- GHERIAH caster," of the Pacific squadron, at the commencement of the Civil War, and in 1862 was made lieutenant-commander.
During the war he commanded the "Chocorua" and "Port Royal," being on the latter vessel in the battle of Mobile Bay, in which he was distinguished for bravery and gallantry. He became commander in 1866; captain in 1874; commodore in 1884; and rear-admiral in 1887; he was commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard in 1886; commanded the North Atlantic Squadron; and directed the Columbian naval review in New York harbor in 1893. He retired in 1894. He died in 1903.
GHERIAH (ger'i-ä), a town of British India. It was the principal port of Augria, a famous piratical prince, whose fort was taken and his whole fleet destroyed by the English and Mahrattas in 1756.