Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton GCB (24 August 1758 – 18 June 1815) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who fought in the Napoleonic...
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Look up picton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Picton may refer to: Picton, New South Wales, Australia Picton, Western Australia, an industrial suburb...
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after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. Thomas Picton's connection...
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Picton Bay, a branch of the Bay of Quinte, which is along the northern shoreline of Lake Ontario. The town is named for Lieutenant General Sir Thomas...
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Portrait of Thomas Picton is a c.1815 portrait painting by William Beechey of the Welsh general Thomas Picton. Picton served during the Peninsular War...
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Thomas Picton Warlow Sr. House is a national historic site located at 701 Driver Avenue, Winter Park, Florida in Orange County. Construction on the house...
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The Picton Monument in Carmarthen, Wales, is one of a number of memorials commemorating Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton. He was the highest ranking...
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Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King named the island "Picton" in honour of Thomas Picton, first British governor of Trinidad in the West-Indies. Lennox...
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Louis XVIII of France. Other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Sir Thomas Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal...
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by Thomas John Clapperton William Williams, Pantycelyn (revivalist and hymn writer, 18th century) by Leonard Stanford Merrifield Sir Thomas Picton (general...
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The second line consisted of British and Hanoverian troops under Sir Thomas Picton, who were lying down in dead ground behind the ridge. All had suffered...
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Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School (redirect from Sir Thomas Picton School)
linked it with Sir Thomas Picton School and Pembrokeshire College. The school closed in 2018 when it merged with Sir Thomas Picton School to form Haverfordwest...
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2020. "Cardiff museum takes down slave owner Thomas Picton's portrait". BBC. 3 November 2021. "Reframing Picton project". Retrieved 16 March 2024. Mason,...
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Sir Thomas Picton was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. Sir Thomas Picton was the only Royal Navy ship ever named for Sir Thomas Picton...
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established as Stonequarry in 1841 and was renamed Picton in 1845. It was named for Sir Thomas Picton, a British army officer (described by historian Alessandro...
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Carmarthen (section Picton's monument)
erected at the west end of the town to honour Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, from Haverfordwest, who had died at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815...
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governor Thomas Picton during the criminal procedure against eighteen-year-old Louisa Calderon in 1801. The former maid of governor Picton was accused...
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so unfamiliar by 1800 that when the then governor of Trinidad, Sir Thomas Picton, ordered Luisa Calderon, a woman of European and African ancestry to...
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band Picture Frame Seduction was formed in the Sir Thomas Picton School in 1978. Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815), a British army general, was born in Haverfordwest...
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Gerard (1970) as Marshal Millefleurs Waterloo (1970) as General Sir Thomas Picton Jane Eyre (1970) as Mr. Brocklehurst The Beloved (1971) as Father Nicholas...
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Cardiff Council, Huw Thomas, supported calls to remove the statue due to Picton's treatment of slaves. A campaign to remove Picton's monument in Carmarthen...
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in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars. The division fought at the Battle of Waterloo...
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Abercrombie Earl of Peterborough Havelock Humber Raglan Roberts Sir Thomas Picton M33 Sloops Anemone Aster Heliotrope Honeysuckle Jonquil (HQ for British...
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1779) August 14 – Carle Vernet, French painter (d. 1835) August 24 Thomas Picton, British soldier, colonial governor (k. 1815) August 25 – Israel Pellew...
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25, 1844. p. 150 – via Internet Archive. Adkins, Nelson F. (1934). "Thomas, Picton". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 14...
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attended Ysgol Nefyn (Nefyn School), Gwynedd on the Llŷn Peninsula and Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire as a child. At the age of 17...
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Gloucester and Edinburgh, one of George III's daughters. Picton, named for Sir Thomas Picton Wellington, named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington...
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the Treaty of Amiens (1802). The colony's first British governor was Thomas Picton, however his heavy-handed approach to enforcing British authority, including...
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Higgins Kevin Hood 4.77 27 November 2011 (2011-11-27) While prosecuting Thomas Picton for approving the use of torture as governor of Trinidad, Garrow is...
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by the Napoleonic general Sir Thomas Picton as an incomplete shell in 1812. The house remained the property of the Picton family until the end of the First...
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