Admiral
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- "The world has changed, thanks to you, Admiral Norrington."
- ―Cutler Beckett to James Norrington[src]
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 epaulettes. 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- أمير الـ, "commander of the" (as in amir-al-bahr أمير البحر "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 Portuguese the word changed to almirante. As the word was used by people speaking Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the "d" and endured a series of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling "admyrall" in the 14th century and to "admiral" by the 16th century.
[edit] Gallery of notable admirals
[edit] Notable admirals
- James Norrington (East India Trading Company)
- Henry Morgan (English Royal Navy)
- Bratton (British Royal Navy)
- Unnamed admiral (British Royal Navy)
- Lawrence Norrington (British Royal Navy)
- Simon (British Royal Navy)
- Da Saldanha (Spanish Royal Navy)
