Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Counter admiral" in English language version.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)The only known use of the noun counter-admiral is in the late 1700s. OED's only evidence for counter-admiral is from around 1789–96, in the writing of Jedidiah Morse, geographer and clergyman. counter-admiral is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French contre-amiral.