The Battle of Maida, fought on 4 July 1806 was a battle between the British expeditionary force and a French force outside the town of Maida in Calabria...
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Look up maida or Maida in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maida may refer to: Maida Abdallah (born 1970), Tanzanian politician Maida Arslanagić (born...
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Edwardian blocks of mansion flats. The area is home to the BBC Maida Vale Studios. The name of the area is derived from a pub and an Italian battle during the...
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routed the French in the Battle of Maida in 1806, as part of the War of the Third Coalition. Maida is 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Lamezia Terme and 31...
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Robert Ross (British Army officer) (redirect from Ross-of-Bladensburg)
of 1812. Ross joined the British Army in 1789. He served as an officer in several battles during the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battles of Maida and...
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the Battle of Maida, which took place in 1806, and was a gift from Alexander Macdonell of Glengarry (Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell), a friend of Scott...
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London, which is itself named after the 1806 Battle of Maida. Within the suburb there is a primary school (Maida Vale Primary School), a golf course, numerous...
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Army Gold Medal (redirect from Maida Gold Medal)
above who had taken a key part in the Battle of Maida. This medal, 1.5 inches (38 mm) in diameter, shows the profile of King George III on the obverse with...
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included in the design of the Army Gold Medal awarded to British Army majors and above who had taken a key part in the Battle of Maida (1806). It was used...
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Luigi Gaspare Peyri (category Italian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
in the War of the Fourth Coalition, the War of the Fifth Coalition, and the Peninsular War. Peyri hailed from Mantua. At the Battle of Maida on 4 July...
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the Battle of Maida (1806). An early flag of Sicily, proposed in 1848, included the Sicilian triskeles or "Trinacria symbol". Later versions of Sicilian...
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Sicily (redirect from Island of Sicily)
military to form the Royal Sicilian Regiment, which saw action at the Battle of Maida and then transferred to Iberia. After the wars were won, Sicily and...
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Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
a force of 5,000 British officers and men to march north on Naples. On 4 July 1806, they defeated a larger French force at the Battle of Maida. Once again...
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1st Swiss Regiment (France) (category Regiments of the First French Empire)
especially at the Battle of Maida, where the story of the Swiss is not as well known as their British victors. Towards the end of the battle, the French right-wing...
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successful despite some setbacks, including the prolonged Siege of Gaeta, the British victory at Maida, and a stubborn guerrilla war by the peasantry against the...
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Horatio Townshend (1780–1843) (category Younger sons of viscounts)
at the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 and accompanied it to Sicily in 1806 and fought at the Battle of Maida. He went with it to Portugal in...
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list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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Only Jupiter, renamed HMS Maida after the recent French defeat at the battle of Maida in Italy, had any continued career in the Royal Navy. The only surviving...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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Royal Sicilian Regiment (category Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War)
small party (2 officers and 58 other ranks) at the Battle of Maida on 4 July 1806. With two companies of the Royal Corsican Rangers, they were assigned to...
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the peripheral Battle of Maida in southern Italy in July 1806 (though these actions are considered part of the tail end of the War of the Third Coalition)...
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1 The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
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De Watteville's Regiment (category British military units and formations of the War of 1812)
1803, fighting in Sicily and Naples. The regiment fought and won the Battle of Maida, in Italy in July 1806. From 1811 to 1813 the unit served under Wellington...
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French ship Constitution (1795) (redirect from HMS Maida (1806))
on 6 May 1806. The Royal Navy then commissioned her as Maida, in honour of the Battle of Maida, the name Jupiter being already used for the 50-gun fourth...
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expeditionary force and score a victory at the Battle of Maida. However, because the British failed to relieve the garrison of Gaeta, the city was finally captured...
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of the Polish officers involved in the battle were subsequently awarded the Legion of Honour by Napoleon. The battle, along with the battles of Maida...
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Swiss mercenaries (category Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era)
to 1803, fighting in Sicily and Naples. The regiment fought in the Battle of Maida in Italy in July 1806. Kept up to strength by Spanish and Portuguese...
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insurrection soon ran out of control. The siege of Gaeta would occupy the French from 26 February to 18 July. Meanwhile, the Battle of Maida on 4 July would seriously...
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Bonaparte is appointed as King of Holland by his brother, Emperor Napoleon, replacing the Batavian Republic. July 4 Battle of Maida: Britain defeats the French...
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part of the garrison of that city after its capture. The 1st Battalion served in the Calabrian campaign and fought at Battle of Maida on 4 July 1806. In...
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