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American History. United States: General.        
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William Thomas SampsonWilliam Thomas Sampson became interested in ordnance technology while at the U.S. Naval Academy. During his tenure in the Navy he made numerous improvements to the technology used by the Navy, and to its training practices. As Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron during the Spanish-American War, he was partially responsible for the American Navy's decimation of a Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba, on July 3, 1898.
 
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