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2 unusual facts about Brice W. Goldsborough


Brice W. Goldsborough

Brice W. Goldsborough II (1902–1971) was a Foreign Service officer and a son of a Governor of Maryland, Phillips Lee Goldsborough; and Mary Ellen Showell (?-1930).

Phillips Lee Goldsborough

In 1893 he married Mary Ellen Showell (c. 1865 – 1930) and they had two sons: Brice W. Goldsborough; and Phillips Lee Goldsborough II.


Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations of the United States

While sailing in convoy on October 16, Lieutenant Louis M. Goldsborough of the Porpoise liberated the British brig Comet after watching it get captured by 250 pirates in five vessels.

James O. Goldsborough

He is author of numerous articles on foreign affairs for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Fortune, and the Reader's Digest.

John R. Goldsborough

On 1 June 1861, Union captured a Confederate blockade runner, the schooner C. W. Johnson with a cargo of railroad iron, off the coast of North Carolina; she also captured the blockade runner Amelia, carrying a cargo of contraband from Liverpool, England, off Charleston, South Carolina, on 18 June 1861.

Louis M. Goldsborough

During his command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which he commanded from its inception to September 1862, he led his fleet off North Carolina, where in cooperation with troops under General Ambrose Burnside, he captured Roanoke Island and destroyed a small Confederate fleet.

Nicholas T. Goldsborough

Two of his campaigns for The Music Center raised more than $240 million for the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and renovation of the Ahmanson Theatre.


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