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Henry Spencer Palmer

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British military engineer and surveyor

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Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer was a British Royal Engineer who was a member of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866), and who subsequently developed the Port of Yokohama in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Meiji...

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Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer was a British Royal Engineer who was a member of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858-1866), and who subsequently developed the Port of Yokohama in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Meiji government.

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Lived 1838 to 1893 · aged 54
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