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{{Infobox Military Person
|name= Miles Standish
|image=[[Image:MylesStandish.gif]]
|caption= Myles Standish from 1625-1634?
|nickname= Captain Shrimp
|rank= [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]
|branch= [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
|serviceyears= British Army 1601-1618, Plymouth Colony 1620-1656
(contracted; show full) advisor for [[Plymouth Colony]]. Arriving on the ''[[Mayflower (ship)|Mayflower]]'', he worked on colonial defense. On [[February 17]], [[1621]], he was appointed the first commander of Plymouth Colony. Later, he served as Plymouth's representative in [[England]], and served as assistant governor and as the colony's treasurer. He was also one of the founders of the town of [[Duxbury, Massachusetts]] (named after his ancestral seat at [[Duxbury Woods]], [[Chorley]]) in 1632.{{
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Standish is often remembered for his bravery in battle and his reputation as the military captain of the Pilgrims, as well as a character in [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]'s fictitious poem ''[[The Courtship of Miles Standish]]''.

The former [[Fort Standish]], located on [[Lovell's Island]], Massachusetts, was named in his honor, as was the town of [[Standish, Maine]].

==In North America==
(contracted; show full)ngton, Maudsley [Mawdesley], Newburrow [Newborough], Crawston [Croston] and the Ile of man [ [[Isle of Man]] ] and given to me as right heire by lawful Decent but Surruptuously Detained from my great Grandfather being a second or younger brother from the house of Standosh [Standish] of Standish. March the 7th 1655 by me Standish.” These lands now make up the Lancashire towns of [[Chorley]] and [[Ormskirk]].

Myles Standish was the deputy governor. He was likely buried in [[Miles Standish Burial Ground]].


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== '''Who was Miles Standish?''' ==

Miles Standish has been called the “Hero of New England.” Like many other heroes and great men, he was rather diminutive in person. Hubbard, the historian, has said of him, “A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper.” He was born in Lancashire, England, about the year 1584. He was a soldier by profession, and was serving in the Netherlands when Mr. Robinson, with his Pilgrim flock, settled at Leyden. There he joined the (contracted; show full)

Standish befriended an Indian named Hobomok, just as Bradford befriended Squanto, and the two lived out their lives very close to one another.  Hobomok was a warrior for Massasoit, and the two "military men" probably understood one another better than most. 


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==Citations and Notes==
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==References==
* Sumner, William Hyslop, ''An Inquiry Into the Importance of the Militia to a Free Commonwealth: In a Letter from William H. Sumner ... to John Adams, Late President of the United States; with His Answer'', Cummings and Hilliard, Boston, 1823

==External links==
*http://www.mylesstandish.org/
*[http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/MylesStandish.php Myles Standish] from MayflowerHistory.com
*[http://www.duxbury.plus.com/standish/Mylespt1.htm Myles Standish article] by Helen Moorwood
*http://www.standish-history.org.uk/history.php?year=1620
*http://www.standish.org.uk/history.php?org=st_family
*[http://www.sail1620.org/discover_biography_myles_standish_born_where_the_state_of_the_question_part_1.shtml ''Myles Standish''] by Dr Jeremy Bangs, PhD.
*[http://historyofstandish.org.uk History of Standish] - A collection of interactive videos documenting the history of Standish, UK.

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