The Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance was a member of the British Board of Ordnance and the deputy of the Master-General of the Ordnance. The office was...
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The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
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included the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Before the establishment of a standing army or navy, the Ordnance Office...
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but with a new title: Lieutenant of the Ordnance. Thereafter the Lieutenant (or Lieutenant-General) had day-to-day oversight of the Board's activities,...
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list of the serving Generals (Major generals, Lieutenant generals and Generals) of the Bangladesh Army. Currently, the army has 1 general, 5 lieutenant generals...
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Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, and he soon gained the confidence of George III, who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the...
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The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (redirect from General William Howe)
bid to be re-elected to the House of Commons. In 1782, he was named lieutenant general of the ordnance and appointed to the Privy Council. His colonelcy...
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The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps....
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George Wade (redirect from General Wade)
March 1703 and to lieutenant colonel in October 1703. In 1704 he joined the staff of Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway as adjutant-general in Portugal, and...
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The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) is a very senior military position in the Indian Army held by a serving lieutenant general. Government of India...
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George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (category Lords Lieutenant of Ireland)
lieutenant-general, to protect Portugal during the Spanish invasion of Portugal. Townshend became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in the Grenville Ministry...
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John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (category British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
having been made Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance on 19 March 1747, he fought at Lauffeld in July 1747, where he led the charge of the British cavalry...
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The Ministry of All the Talents was a national unity government in the United Kingdom formed by William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, on his appointment...
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senior lieutenant. This naval lieutenant ranks higher than an army lieutenants; within NATO countries the naval rank of lieutenant is a OF-2 and is the equivalent...
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George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth (category Lord-lieutenants of the Tower Hamlets)
during The Protectorate for conspiring to restore Charles II. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, a...
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This is the list of serving generals in the Pakistan Army. At present the Army has 2 Generals, 30 Lieutenant Generals (including 1 from Army Medical Corps)...
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Erle (1650–1720), PC, son, Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Wareham (a pocket borough...
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Subsequently, he was made Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, but in 1828 he resigned the position and became Colonial...
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commander of the expedition, replacing Sackville on 21 August 1759. He became Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance on 15 September 1759. He was one of the first...
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Pakistan Army (redirect from Master General of Ordnance (MGO))
Quartermaster General (QMG). Master General of Ordnance (MGO). Engineer-in-Chief, the chief army engineer and topographer. Judge Advocate General. Military...
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turn required the support of an ordnance department. By accepting the report of then Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering...
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Wellington–Peel ministry (category 1820s in the United Kingdom)
of Lord High Admiral put into commission from 19 September 1828. Office of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance vacant after 1830. Office of Clerk of the...
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become master of the ordnance (a post he resigned on appointment as lieutenant-general of ordnance in England in 1592). He was present when the new lord deputy...
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Hew Dalrymple Ross (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery. Ross was the last person to hold the title of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance, assuming responsibility for the artillery...
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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (redirect from William Carr Beresford, Viscount, Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, Duke de Elvas Beresford)
held the office of Master-General of the Ordnance in 1828 in the First Wellington ministry. He led the 1806 failed British invasion of Buenos Aires. William...
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Charles Wills (category British Army generals)
General Sir Charles Wills KB PC (October 1666 – 25 December 1741) was a British Army officer and politician who served as Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance...
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William Henry Clinton (category British Army generals)
and the Liberal Wars. He was also the grandson of Admiral George Clinton and elder brother of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton. Born to General Sir...
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New Model Army (category Military units and formations of the English Civil War)
Foot) was appointed Lieutenant General of the Ordnance. The establishment of the New Model also included at least two companies of "firelocks" or fusiliers...
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Thomas Erle (category Deputy lieutenants of Dorset)
in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance. Erle...
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