Robert Lambert Baynes

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Sir Robert Lambert Baynes (1796 – 7 September 1869) was a British naval officer. He is credited with adopting a policy of non-intervention that helped to defuse the San Juan Boundary Dispute of 1859 between Britain and the United States of America.

Baynes refused to obey orders from the Governor of the colony of Vancouver Island James Douglas to land marines on San Juan Island to engage American soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General William Selby Harney that had occupied the island on 27 July 1859.

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