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Bancroft

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Ban·croft  (bnkrôft, -krft, bng-), George 1800-1891.
American historian and diplomat whose published works include the ten-volume History of the United States (1834-1874). As secretary of the navy (1845-1846) he established the naval academy at Annapolis.


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, Titus Dates; Bathsheba, 710, the Duchess of Portsmouth; Barzillai, 817, the Duke of Ormond; Zadoc, 864, Archbishop Bancroft.
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