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COMMODORE
COMMODORE, (chef d'escadre, Fr.) a general officer in the British marine, invested with the command of a detachment of ships of war destined on any particular enterprise; during which time he bears the rank of brigadier-general in the army, and is distinguished from the inferior ships of his squadron by a broad red pendent tapering towards the outer-end, and sometimes forked. The word is corrupted from the Spanifh comendador.COMMODORE is also a name given to some select ship in a fleet of merchantmen, who leads the van in time of war, and carries a light in his top, to conduct the rest and keep them together.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 85, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0360.html