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NAVARRETE, See also:MARTIN See also:FERNANDEZ DE (1765–1844) , See also:Spanish historian, was See also:born at Abalos on the 9th of See also:November 1765, and entered the See also:navy in 1780. He was engaged in the unsuccessful operations against See also:Gibraltar in 1782, and afterwards in the suppression of Algerine pirates. See also:Ill-See also:health compelled him for a See also:time to withdraw from active service, but he devoted this forced leisure to See also:historical See also:research, and in 1789 he was appointed by the See also:crown to examine the See also:national archives See also:relating to the maritime See also:history of See also:Spain. Rejoining the navy in 1793, he was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Toulon, and afterwards received command of a See also:frigate. From 179.7 to 18o8 he held in See also:succession various important posts in the See also:ministry of marine. In 18o8 the See also:French invasion led to his withdrawal to See also:Andalusia, and the See also:rest of his See also:life was entirely devoted to literature. In 1819 appeared, as an appendix to the See also:Academy's edition of See also:Don Quijote, his See also:Vida de Cervantes, and in 1825 the first two volumes of the Coleccion de los Viajes y Descubrimientos que hicieron See also:por See also:Mar los Espanoles desde fines del Siglo X V. (3rd vol., 1829; 4th vol., 1837). In 1837 he was made a senator and director of the academy of history. At the time of his See also:death, on the 8th of See also:October 1844, he was assisting in the preparation of the Coleccion de Documentos Ineditos See also:para la Historia de Espana. His Disertacion sobre la Historia de la Nautica (1846) and Biblioteca Maritima Espanola (1851), were published posthumously.

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