Sir John William Fortescue KCVO FRHistS (28 December 1859 – 22 October 1933) was a British military historian. He was a historian of the British Army...
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John Fortescue (MP for Barnstaple) (1819–1859), British MP Sir John Fortescue (historian) (1859–1933), British statesman and military historian John Fortescue...
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Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – December 1479), of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and was the author of De Laudibus...
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reputed British Army historian, she became formally styled Winifred, Lady Fortescue, when he was knighted in 1926. Lady Fortescue (born Winifred Beech...
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Sir Nicholas Fortescue the younger (1605–1644), was an English Knight of St. John. He was the fourth son of Sir Nicholas Fortescue, Chamberlain of the...
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historian), (1859–1933), historian of the British army John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923-2013), one of the...
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Captain The Honourable Sir Seymour John Fortescue, GCVO, CMG (10 February 1856 – 20 March 1942) was a British naval officer and courtier who was an Equerry...
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John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (7 March 1670 – 19 December 1746) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and peer who sat in the...
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George Fortescue (c.1578–1659) was an English essayist and poet. Fortescue, born in London in or about 1578, was the only son of John Fortescue, by Ellen...
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royalist commander during the English Civil War. Fortescue was born in 1585, the third son of John Fortescue (d. 1604) of Buckland Filleigh in Devon, but...
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Spridleston (section John Fortescue, MP)
cousin Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter and heiress of John Fortescue of Fallapit in the parish of East Allington, descended from John Fortescue (died after 1432)...
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Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner, KCVO (28 December 1842 – 21 March 1927) was a British barrister. His family had lived at Mells Manor for generations...
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Granville Fortescue was born on 30 October 1861, the sixth and youngest son of Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue. Sir John Fortescue, the historian of the...
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Warleigh, Bickleigh (category John Foulston buildings)
of Wollocombe and Fortescue. Gertrude Copleston (born 1611), the younger sister, who married in 1632 at Tamerton Foliot to Sir John Bampfylde, 1st Baronet...
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Colonel Archer Fortescue "Scotty" Duguid OBE DSO CD (31 August 1887 – 4 January 1976) was a Scottish-Canadian engineer, army officer, historian, and vexillologist...
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October 1814) was an officer in the British Army. The Army's historian Sir John Fortescue called him "The bravest man ever to wear a red coat". Hugh Robert...
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large-caliber guns. Battalion guns and their crews are not counted. Historian John Fortescue credited Souham's division with 28,000 men, Jean Moreau's division...
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Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934) was an English academic, the first Roman Catholic to act as a tutorial fellow in the University of Oxford since...
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Charles Oman (category British military historians)
Oman, KBE, FBA (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British military historian. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted...
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and then chose to negotiate with the victorious British. The historian John William Fortescue claimed that the British casualties totalled 847: 39 killed...
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Combe Elizabeth Elford, who married Edmund Fortescue of London Barbara Elford, who married Arthur Fortescue (1622–1693) of Penwarne, Cornwall, and of Filleigh...
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To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451, Adrian Fortescue, Ignatius Press, 2008. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, John N.D. Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1986...
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Weare Giffard (section Fortescue)
brasses in Filleigh Church. In 1454 Sir Martin Fortescue (d. 1472), second son of Sir John Fortescue (1395–1485), Chief Justice, of Ebrington Manor in...
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John Henry Newman CO (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, first as an Anglican...
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41. Krumbacher, Byzantinische Litteraturgebchichte, 258–60. Fortescue, A. (1910). "John of Antioch". In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton...
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Spanish). Phil. Nutius. "The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster - Full Text Free Book". Fortescue, John (2013). A History of the British Army – Vol. I (1066-1713)...
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Asquith and Bertie complained of inaccuracies and it was attacked by Sir John Fortescue as "one of the most unfortunate books ever written". Smith-Dorrien,...
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1828, pp. 214–215. Fortescue 1910, pp. 372–374. Oman gives more than 1,000 lost, Oman 1902, p. 580. Napier 1873, p. 120. Sir John Moore's last sentence...
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army could do, and did, nothing. On the other hand, military historian Sir John Fortescue is more critical of the expedition, describing it as an "egregious...
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