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This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 92. Chapters: Admirals, Captains, Commodores, Lieutenants, Quartermasters, Admiral, Bratton, Henry Morgan, James Norrington, Lawrence Norrington, Maldonado, Simon, Unnamed admiral, Anamaria, Arabella Smith, Bellamy, Benedict Huntington, Bo'sun, Captain, Captain of HMS Dauntless, Captain of the Guard, Carrera de la Vega, Christopher Syn, Cromwell, Cutler Beckett, Davy Jones, Ewan Glover, Hawkins, Henshaw, James Norrington, Jean Luc Pierpont, Leonardo Leone, McGlue, Nathaniel Bainbridge, Oliver Randolph Pynce-Jones III, Spanish Officer, Undead Captains, Unnamed French captain, Unnamed Spanish privateer, Virgile Boon, William Turner Jr., Commodore, James Norrington, Bligh, EITC second lieutenant, Floyd, Gillette, Greitzer, James Norrington, Lieutenant, Theodore Groves, Hector Barbossa, Quartermaster, Quartermaster, Quartermaster, Quartermaster, Undead Quarter Masters, Admiral, Cadet, Captain, Commander, Commodore, Crew member, Ensign, General, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Quartermaster, Second Mate, Sergeant. Excerpt: Admiral was a rank given to the highest naval officers. The British Royal Navy, French Royal Navy, Spanish Royal Navy and the East India Trading Company employed this rank. In the British Royal Navy, an admiral's uniform was gold-trimmed, and had epaulets. Pirates who led fleets or joint crews were known to have assumed the title of admiral. The word Admiral in Middle English comes from Anglo-French amiral, "commander," from Medieval Latin admiralis, "emir," admirallus, "admiral," from Arabic amir-al-, "commander of the" (as in amir-al-bahr "commander of the sea"). Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of the term and used them as one word, amiral, from their Catalan opponents. The French and Spanish gave their sea commanders similar titles while in Portug...
