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George Somers (1554-1610) Lyme Regis/England
English naval officer and privateer, associated with the early expansion of England’s colonial presence in the Atlantic world and regarded as the founder of the English colony of Bermuda.
WHO ALSO participated in English privateering expeditions in the Caribbean and along the northern coast of South America, where raids against Spanish settlements formed part of the wider struggle for imperial power in the region.
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