Thomas Foley (The River of Defeat)

Admiral Sir Thomas Foley (1757 - 9 January 1833) was an British-born Royal Navy officer. Foley and his ship at the time, the HMS Goliath, saw action in the Battle of the Nile, where he was injured and was honorably dischaged from the Royal Navy.

When the First European War began in 1803, Foley was reinstated as Admiral, and served the Royal Navy until the end of the war. Following the defeat of the Coalition, Foley fled to the United States for political asylum, and got an job as an officer in the United States Navy, and resigned from the Navy in 1830, and retired to an small home in New York, where he died in his sleep on January 9, 1833.