Lieutenant-General Hon. George Boscawen (1 December 1712 – 3 May 1775) was a British Army officer and politician, the fourth son of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount...
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George Boscawen may refer to: George Boscawen (British Army general) (1712–1775), MP for Penryn and Truro George Boscawen (MP for St Mawes) (1745–?),...
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Admiral of the Blue Edward Boscawen, PC (19 August 1711 – 10 January 1761) was a British admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for the borough...
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Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC (18 October 1865 – 1 June 1946) was a British politician in the Conservative Party whose career was cut...
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Viscount Falmouth (redirect from Evelyn George Boscawen)
Great Britain in 1720 for Hugh Boscawen (c.1680-1734). He was made Baron Boscawen-Rose at the same time, also in the Peerage of Great Britain. Boscawen had...
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Silva, fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d. 1786) December 1 – George Boscawen, British Army general and politician (d. 1775) December 3 Joseph Relph, English...
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general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or...
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duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. 1715) May 3 – George Boscawen, British Army general (b. 1712) May 5 John Blennerhassett, Anglo-Irish politician...
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of full generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer...
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Silva, fourth Patriarch of Lisbon (d. 1786) December 1 – George Boscawen, British Army general and politician (d. 1775) December 3 Joseph Relph, English...
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duchess consort of Saxe-Weissenfels (b. 1715) May 3 – George Boscawen, British Army general (b. 1712) May 5 John Blennerhassett, Anglo-Irish politician...
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FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
5th Duke of Beaufort and his wife Elizabeth (daughter of Admiral Edward Boscawen), Somerset was educated at Westminster School and was commissioned as a...
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (redirect from General William Howe)
(10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American...
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Robert Thomas Boscawen MC PC (17 March 1923 – 28 December 2013) was a British Conservative politician. He was the last member of the House of Commons...
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Jennie's sisters believed that John's actual biological father was Evelyn Boscawen. Spencer-Churchill was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars...
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General Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth (20 March 1707 – 4 February 1782), styled The Honourable Hugh Boscawen between 1720 and 1734, was a British...
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Seven Years' War (redirect from British Amphibious Descents (1757-61))
Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide on 8 June 1755, capturing it and two troop ships. In September 1755, British colonial and French...
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French and Indian War (redirect from The British Conquest)
22-year-old George Washington ambushed a French patrol. In 1755, six colonial governors met with General Edward Braddock, the newly arrived British Army commander...
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Guards Armoured Division (redirect from List of component units of British Guards Armoured Division)
The Guards Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army during the Second World War. The division was created in the United Kingdom on...
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James Wolfe (redirect from General james wolfe)
January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in...
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Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands...
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the British administration, attempted to address the British maltreatment of Indians, undertook the restoration of the Taj Mahal, and sent a British expedition...
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Coldstream Guards (redirect from The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards)
Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the...
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List of Old Rugbeians (category Use British English from February 2023)
Marshall-Cornwall, General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt during World War II General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group in World...
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John Graves Simcoe (category British Army lieutenant generals)
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada...
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18 August – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Lagos, the British fleet of Edward Boscawen defeats a French force under Commodore de la Clue off the Portuguese...
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fleet under Admiral-General Hans Wachtmeister, attacked Copenhagen so facilitating the landing of King Charles XII of Sweden and his army in Denmark in August...
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Lord Edward Somerset (category British Army generals)
General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset GCB (19 December 1776 – 1 September 1842) was a British Army commander who fought during the Peninsular War and...
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1934). A major general of the British Army. Sir Francis Richard Bingham (5 July 1863 – 5 November 1935). A major general of the British Army. Alexander Frederick...
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Dido Elizabeth Belle (category Black British former slaves)
1804) was a British gentlewoman. She was born into slavery and illegitimate; her mother, Maria Belle, was an enslaved Black woman in the British West Indies...
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