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Bancroft, George
 
SYLLABICATION:Ban·croft
PRONUNCIATION:  bnkrôft, -krft, bng-
DATES: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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