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    Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone CB (26 January 1782 – 23 April 1842) was an officer of the British Army during the 19th century. He was...
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    George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB, FRS (7 January 1746 – 10 March 1823) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French...
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    William Elphinstone, himself the third son of Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone. His paternal uncle was Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone...
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    William Fullerton-Elphinstone (born William Elphinstone; 13 September 1740 – 3 May 1834) was a Scottish ship's captain for the East India Company who...
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  • Bohemia William George Keith Elphinstone (1782–1842), British Army officer William Elphinstone, 15th Lord Elphinstone (1828–1893), Scottish peer William Fullerton...
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    January snow hindering them. Under the command of Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone, 4,500 British and Indian soldiers plus 12,000 civilian camp...
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  • Scotland George Elphinstone (d. 1634), Provost of Glasgow George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (1746–1823), British admiral Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess...
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    Lord Elphinstone. Lord Balmerino's younger son was James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Coupar. Another member was George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, who...
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    the Honourable Sir George Keith Elphinstone.[citation needed] In 1814 Lord Keith was further honoured when he was made Viscount Keith in the Peerage of...
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    General William George Keith Elphinstone, failed to react to the uprising. Dost Mohammed's son Akbar Khan, arrived to lead the insurrection. Elphinstone asked...
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  • India, Flashman is assigned to the staff of Major General William George Keith Elphinstone, who is to command the garrison at the worst frontier of the...
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    Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual...
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    Kabul in charge of recruits, and became interpreter to General William George Keith Elphinstone. In 1841, being attached to Sir Robert Henry Sale's force,...
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    Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet Major-General Sir Howard Craufurd Elphinstone Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone Brigadier Frederick...
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    January 1842, following some unusual thinking by Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone, which may have had something to do with the poor defensibility...
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    Brigade (Halkett) – 33rd ("West Riding", Lieutenant-Colonel William George Keith Elphinstone) 69th ("South Lincolnshire", Morice) and the 73rd (Harris)...
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  • Lord Elphinstone is the son of James Elphinstone, 18th Lord Elphinstone, and Willa Mary Gabrielle Chetwode. His mother is the daughter of Major George David...
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    He was created Baron Keith which was promoted to the rank of Viscount in 1814. The Viscount's nephew was William George Elphinstone who was a colonel at...
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  • any more..."[citation needed] The song is said to reference William George Keith Elphinstone and his disastrous retreat from Afghanistan (during which he...
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    Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist (d. 1862) January 26 William George Keith Elphinstone, British Army general (d. 1842) Cornelius P. Van Ness, American...
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    campaign) (in German), archived from the original on 17 July 2012 Siborne, William (1844), History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815 (2nd ed.), London:...
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    upon the death of his grandfather, William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal. George Keith was the son of William Keith, Master of Marischal, and his wife, Elizabeth...
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    the French Navy. The British expedition was led by Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinstone and sailed in April 1795, arriving off Simon's Town at the Cape in...
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    Britain George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (1746–1823), admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone...
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    Dolgorukov Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski Alfred Mordaunt Egerton William George Keith Elphinstone Ivan Fyodorovich Emme Oskar Enqvist Nikolai Epanchin Ludwig...
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  • mounted division during the Second Boer War Major General William George Keith Elphinstone: Commander of the Anglo-Indian army that invaded and occupied...
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    surrender of the colony in a short campaign. British Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinstone, then reinforced the garrison and stationed a naval squadron at the...
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  • 1788, the only child of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, admiral, and his first wife, Jane, only child and heiress of William Mercer of Aldie, Perth...
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    Prince Willem of Orange G.C.B. Under the command of Wellington. Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (KIA) Left Wing, Armee du Nord Marshal...
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    Charles Allix, 1st Foot Guards Colonel Thomas William Taylor Major General William George Keith Elphinstone Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner Lieutenant...
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