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    Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe (c. 1663 – 26 September 1709), of The Great Lodge, Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire, was an English diplomat, army officer, and Member...
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  • Emanuel Howe may refer to: Emanuel Howe (British Army officer) (c. 1663 – 1709), English diplomat, army officer and Member of Parliament Emanuel Howe...
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    George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (c. 1725 – 6 July 1758) was a career officer and a brigadier general in the British Army. He was described by James...
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  • General Howe may also refer to: Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), Union Army brigadier general and brevet major general Emanuel Howe (British Army officer) (c....
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    Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (c. 1700 – 29 March 1735), of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, was a British politician and colonial administrator...
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    William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land...
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    Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, KG (8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799), was a British naval officer. After serving throughout the War of...
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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 other...
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  • Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), British admiral in the French Revolutionary Wars and American Revolution Robert Howe (Continental Army officer) (1732—1786)...
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    Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington. Howe was successful in driving...
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    Washington's forces drove the British Army out of Boston in March 1776, and British commander in chief William Howe responded by launching the New York...
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    championed at the highest levels, including by British Prime Minister William Pitt. Mordaunt was placed in overall Army command for the assault, supported by Major-General...
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    was a British Army officer. Beckwith was commissioned into the 37th Regiment of Foot in 1771. He distinguished himself as a regimental officer in the...
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    service in three different armed forces (British provincial militia, the Continental Army, and the United States Army). Because of Washington's importance...
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    George Washington (category British America army officers)
    of British troops. Howe transported his resupplied army, with the British fleet, from Halifax to New York City. George Germain, who ran the British war...
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    destination. Washington's difficulty in discerning Howe's motives was due to the presence of a British army moving south from Quebec toward Fort Ticonderoga...
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  • William Augustus Pitt (category British Army generals)
    December 1809) was a long-serving if undistinguished senior officer of the British Army whose sixty years of service covered several major wars and numerous...
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    1810,: 18  whereupon he joined Wellington's army at Lisbon. From 1810 to 1814 he served with the British army in the Peninsular War. He returned to England...
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    Battle of Monmouth (category Battles involving Great Britain)
    Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir...
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    Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (category British Life Guards officers)
    7th Duke of Somerset (11 November 1684 – 7 February 1750) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons from 1708...
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  • General Sir Henry Warde GCB (7 January 1766 – 1 October 1834) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. Born on 7 January 1766, he was the fourth...
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    Scottish soldier who served in the British Army, commanding the 5th Division in the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army at several critical battles during...
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    Continental Army with the evacuation of British troops from Boston in March, attempts to defend New York City from the British were unsuccessful. British General...
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  • John Grubham Howe (1657–1722) was an English politician. Elected on numerous occasions as Member of Parliament, he made the transition from the Whig to...
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    the 1946 New Year Honours The British Empire Medal (formally British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious...
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    drive out the Bavarian Elector, Maximilian II Emanuel, from North Tyrol and thus prevent the Bavarian Army, which is allied with France, from marching on...
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    all possible crossings near the Continental Army encampment on the Delaware, as he believed William Howe would launch an attack from the north on Philadelphia...
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    received a brevet promotion to lieutenant general, becoming the first U.S. Army officer to hold that rank since George Washington. In 1859, he peacefully solved...
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    at the Battle of Brandywine, the British Army remained encamped near Chadds Ford. When British commander William Howe was informed that the weakened American...
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  • Kelly Rising Appalachia The Roots Sleater-Kinney Sofi Tukker Yo La Tengo Emanuel Ax Kenny Barron Adam Blackstone Just Blaze Holly Bowling Ron Carter Bootsy...
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