Robert Lambert Baynes

Robert Lambert Baynes

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Baynes refused to obey orders from the Governor of the colony of Vancouver Island James Douglas to land marines on San Juan Island to engage American soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General William Selby Harney that had occupied the island on 27 July 1859. Baynes Sound in British Columbia is named for him, and the town of Ganges on Saltspring Island and the waters offshore, Ganges Harbour, are named for his flagship, the "HMS Ganges".

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* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4286 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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