Patey

Here fifteen years before he had come with his family in the hope that the water would benefit poor "Patey" Custis, and here he met "the ingenious Mr. Rumney" who showed him the model of a boat to be propelled by steam.

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Or, maybe I'm just hoping it was "Patey" because I don't want to touch on a third possibility:

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British Ambassador to Afghanistan William Patey said that what he called a "dastardly, cowardly attack designed to attack British interests" had instead caused the deaths of many Afghans

Militants Storm British Council in Afghan Capital in Deadly Attack

British Ambassador to Afghanistan William Patey said that what he called a "dastardly, cowardly attack designed to attack British interests" had instead caused the deaths of many Afghans

Militants Storm British Council in Afghan Capital in Deadly Attack

"In February 2001 we were aware of these drum beats from Washington and internally we discussed it," Patey said.

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And I met Ambassador Patey before his departure, within 24 hours.

CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2006

On August 30, Patey, with Australia, Melbourne, and Montcalm, arrived off Apia, the capital of German Samoa, where, without resistance, he put ashore an occupying force of New Zealand troops.

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Thereafter, Patey was told, he was to escort the Australian troop convoy to Europe, at least as far as Aden on the Red Sea.

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Arriving there on October 12, but forbidden to go farther east, Patey spent the next three weeks defensively patrolling the Fiji – New Zealand trade route.

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Tahiti was 5,000 miles away; to coal and provision for a voyage of this length, Patey returned again to Rabaul.

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