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    Sir Francis Vere (1560/61 – 28 August 1609) was a prominent English soldier serving under Queen Elizabeth I fighting mainly in the Low Countries during...
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    initially by a Dutch force which was reinforced by English troops under Francis Vere, who became the town's governor. It was said "the Spanish assailed the...
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    John Vere (c. 1558 – 1624) of Kirby Hall near Castle Hedingham, Sir Francis Vere (born c. 1560), and Robert Vere (b. 1562), and a sister, Frances Vere (born...
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    Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (/də ˈvɪər/; 12 April 1550 – 24 June 1604), was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. Oxford was heir...
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    The House of de Vere was an old and powerful English aristocratic family who derived their name from Ver (department Manche, canton Gavray), in Lower Normandy...
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    help the Protestants in their fight against the Catholic League. Sir Francis Vere assumed command of English forces thereafter – a position he retained...
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  • corroborated by that place's official records. He served in his youth Sir Francis Vere and Sir Edward Cecil. His literary activities seem to be concentrated...
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  • 1st Viscount Margesson (1890–1965) Francis Vere Hampden Margesson, 2nd Viscount Margesson (1922–2014) Richard Francis David Margesson, 3rd Viscount Margesson...
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    on Cadiz in 1596, the English forces allied to the Dutch led by Sir Francis Vere were urgently required back in the Netherlands and went there directly...
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  • Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton (born 1969), British politician Francis Vere (1560–1609), English soldier Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565–1635)...
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    Nassau-Dillenburg and stadtholder of Friesland as well as the English general Francis Vere, were able to turn the tide of the war against the Spanish Empire in...
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    1939) (1) Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk, Earl of Burford (b. 1965) (2) James Malcolm Aubrey Edward de Vere Beauclerk, Lord Vere (b. 1995) (3) Lord...
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    husband the Archduke had escaped the rout. 1st Line Horace Vere Regiment (English) Francis Vere Regiment (English) Hertinga Regiment (Frisian, it was double-sized...
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    Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, KG, PC (28 February 1627 – 12 March 1703) was an English peer and military officer who fought on the Royalist side...
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  • Robert Francis Vere Heuston, QC (Hon.), FBA (17 November 1923 – 21 December 1995), sometimes given as R. F. V. Heuston, was an Irish legal scholar and...
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    John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain KG PC (c. 1482 – 21 March 1540) was an English peer and courtier. John de Vere, born about 1482...
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    was besieged by a Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange and Francis Vere respectively. After a siege of nearly two months the city surrendered...
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  • supported in his quarrel with Sir Francis Vere in 1602. A challenge which Whitelocke carried from the earl to Sir Francis led to the issue of a warrant by...
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    John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and by him was mother of the 16th Earl and grandmother of Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere, the 'fighting Veres'. Elizabeth...
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    was taken by a combination of Dutch ships and English troops led by Francis Vere. The captain, Don Diego Pimmental, surrendered along with the survivors...
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    is a dormant title in the Peerage of England, first created for Aubrey de Vere by the Empress Matilda in 1141. His family was to hold the title for more...
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    Fervet, and Lieutenant Matthew Held. That same day Maurice of Nassau, Francis Vere, and Count Hohenlohe with 800 Dutch and 600 English soldiers with 300...
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    Scots companies were present in this campaign under the command of Sir Francis Vere. This was soon reinforced by another eight companies composing of 3,000...
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    2nd Earl of Essex, Lord Thomas Howard, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Vere each commanding their respective units. Anthony Ashley was the Clerk...
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    Netherlands and volunteered to soldier with the English regiments of Sir Francis Vere (1560–1609) in Flanders. England was allied with the Dutch in their fight...
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    intervention of a Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange and Francis Vere, respectively, on 25 July. As a result, the Spanish army was defeated...
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    Dutch and English Army under the command of Maurice of Nassau and Sir Francis Vere respectively, used Ostend as a base to invade Flanders. After their victory...
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    English contingent under Francis Vere of 1,344 men consisting of twelve companies of infantry under his brother Horace Vere, Oliver Lambart, John Buck...
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    action in the Low Countries fighting under renowned English general Sir Francis Vere. His earliest published works were the obscure philosophical poems The...
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  • Euphrosyne Simon Russell Beale as Earl of Moray Matthew Sim as Lord Francis Vere Toby Stephens as Othello Oleg Pogudin (credited as Oleg Pogodin) as Desdemona...
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