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While with the Great White Fleet in the Philippines, Potter was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral on October 30, 1908 and assumed command of Second Division, Atlantic Fleet. He later assumed command of the Fourth Division, Atlantic Fleet and led it as the part of Great White Fleet and visited Colombo, Ceylon; Suez, Egypt; Gibraltar and returned to Hampton Roads, Virginia in February 1909.