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By Alex Enslow and Dylan Rapp |
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He was
born in 1829 |
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Died in 1876 |
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William Hall was born in Hants Co., N.S., in
1829. His parents were extremely poor; and the boy, showing a great spirit of independence, shipped
before the mast in 1844, sailing |
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from Hainesport, the nearest shipping port to
his native village. The following six years were spent in the merchant
marine of Nova Scotia. |
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William hall was the first person to get a
Victoria cross the son of a slave
born to slavery after being a slave he attended school after school he went to the navy in
Liverpool England in1852 for 15
years he joined as a Hum he handled heavy guns |
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William Hall was born in Hants Co., N.S., in
1829. His parents were extremely poor; and the boy, showing a great spirit of independence, shipped
before the mast in 1844, sailing |
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from Hainesport, the nearest shipping port to
his native village. The following six years were spent in the merchant
marine of Nova Scotia. |
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On 16 November 1857, at the town of Luck now,
British naval guns were brought up close to the Shah Nudejja mosque.
The gun crews, of which Hall was a member, kept up a steady fire in an
attempt to breach the walls of the mosque. A hail of musket balls and
grenades from the mutineers inside the mosque caused heavy casualties for
the gunners. |
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Able Seaman William Hall and Lieutenant T.J.
Young, who was in charge of the gun crews, were the only survivors of the
crews, all the rest having been killed or wounded, and between them they
loaded and fired the last gun which won the battle. |
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