caption serviceyears branch commands relations death_date awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
lord george paulet 1817 -- 1867 royal navy nautilus '' 1806 6 carysfort 1836 6 hms '' bellerophon henry paulet -lrb- uncle -rrb- 22 november 1879 companion the légion d'honneur medjidie of the third class of the order of the bath officier of crimean war 12 august 1803 admiral george paulet -lrb- royal navy officer -rrb- . jpg lord george paulet
 lord george paulet
lord george paulet

admiral lord george paulet cb -lrb- 12 august 1803 -- 22 november 1879 -rrb- was an officer of the royal navy .
he entered the navy shortly after the end of the napoleonic wars and after some years obtained his own command .
he served off the iberian peninsula during the portuguese liberal wars and the spanish first carlist war , protecting british interests and property .
while serving on the pacific station he obtained a brief measure of infamy when he occupied the hawaiian islands for five months in 1843 , in an incident known as the paulet affair .
the occupation was later reversed by his commanding officer .
paulet went on to serve during the crimean war , commanding a ship during the heavy fighting around the siege of sevastopol in 1854 .
he received a number of awards after the war , and was promoted through the ranks , until his death in 1879 at the rank of full admiral .
