Admiral Sir George Robert Lambert GCB

Order of the Bath

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 (1796 - 5 June 1869) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Lambert joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1809. Promoted to Captain

Captain (naval)

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 in 1825, he commanded HMS Alligator, HMS Endymion

HMS Endymion (1797)

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, HMS Imaum and then HMS Fox. In 1852, in HMS Fox, he was dispatched to Burma to deal with some infringements of the Treaty of Yandabo

Treaty of Yandabo

The Treaty of Yandabo was the peace treaty that ended the First Anglo-Burmese War. The treaty was signed on 24 February 1826, nearly two years after the war formally broke out on 5 March 1824, by General Sir Archibald Campbell on the British side, and by Governor of Legaing Maha Min Hla Kyaw Htin...

. Lambert, described by Lord Dalhousie

James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie

James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie KT, PC was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India....

, Governor-General of India

Governor-General of India

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, in a private letter as the "combustible commodore", eventually provoked a naval confrontation in extremely questionable circumstances by blockading the port of Rangoon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

 and thus started the Second Anglo-Burmese War

Second Anglo-Burmese War

The Second Anglo-Burmese War was the second of the three wars fought between the Burmese and the British Empire during the 19th century, with the outcome of the gradual extinction of Burmese sovereignty and independence....

 which ended in the British annexing the province of Pegu and renaming it Lower Burma

Lower Burma

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He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1863 and retired in 1864.