The Royal Corsican Rangers was a unit of the British Army, composed mainly of émigrés, which served during the later part of the French Revolutionary Wars...
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Hudson Lowe (category Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment officers)
with the command of a battalion of volunteer Corsican exiles in the British Army, the Royal Corsican Rangers, who were armed with Baker rifles and trained...
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present on this occasion as captain of a recently raised company of Royal Corsican Rangers. His zeal attracted the notice of his superiors, and he had begun...
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at the Battle of Maida on 4 July 1806. With two companies of the Royal Corsican Rangers, they were assigned to the light brigade commanded by Colonel James...
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battle to commence without changing any orders. Kempt detached the Royal Corsican Rangers and Sicilian troops as skirmishers. These got into a brawl with...
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the Royal Navy frigate HMS Apollo and 160 troops from the 2nd Greek Light Infantry from Cephalonia and the 35th Regiment of the Royal Corsican Rangers on...
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military expedition to Egypt. He was then elevated to captain in the Royal Corsican Rangers on 29 September 1804, continuing onto to be a major in the Sicilian...
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(i.e. non-British) troops from his previous appointment in the Royal Corsican Rangers. At the outset, its authorized strength was one battalion of 800...
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French invasion of Egypt and Syria (section Royal Navy)
Regiment of Foot Royal Corsican Rangers Artillery & Engineers, commanded by Brigadier General Robert Lawson No. 5 Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Artillery under...
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After a brief visit to Germany in 1806, Franz Ludwig joined the Royal Corsican Rangers where he would eventually serve in the Mediterranean Sea. The regiment...
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(1776-1824), Command of the expedition of Candy and officer of the Royal Corsican Rangers Arthur Johnson (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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by Brigadier General Hudson Lowe Royal Regiment of Malta (9 x companies, 44 NCOs and 620 men) Royal Corsican Rangers (10 x companies, 44 NCOs and 640...
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English football (soccer) defender Lt-Col John McCombe of the Royal Corsican Rangers John McComb Jr. (1763–1853), Architect of New York City Hall and...
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awards from knight bachelors to peerages. This list includes officers of the Royal Marines who were at the time seconded to the British Army, and foreign officers...
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comprising British and Sicilian troops as well as Greek and Corsican (Royal Corsican Rangers) volunteer detachments. The initial fighting was hard, but...
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HMS Saracen (1812) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Royal Naval Biography (1823))
October 1813, a party from Bacchante and Saracen, together with the Royal Corsican Rangers, captured Forts Epagnole and Castel Nuova. The two forts mounted...
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Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
September when the ship was recalled following the French invasion of the Corsican Republic. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral the following year and Vice-Admiral...
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HMS Apollo (1805) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Royal Naval Biography (1823))
men from the 2nd Greek Light Infantry from Cephalonia, from the Royal Corsican Rangers, the 35th Regiment of Foot, and marines and seamen from the Apollo...
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Chasseurs Royaux de Dauphiné (3rd) Chasseurs Royaux Corses (Corsican) (4th) Chasseurs Corses (Corsican) (5th) Chasseurs Cantabres (Cantabrian) (6th) Chasseurs...
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S.A. 1942 (15th) 0 1 Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1942 (15th) 0 1 The Corsican Brothers 1942 (15th) 0 1 The Grain That Built a Hemisphere 1942 (15th)...
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Macclesfield Forest (redirect from Royal Forest of Macclesfield)
royal forest that is covered by woodland. The predominant species are Sitka spruce and Japanese larch, with some Scots pine, lodgepole pine, Corsican...
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William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (category Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers officers)
of the force that invaded Corsica in February 1794 alongside a group of Corsican patriots. A naval bombardment failed to destroy the French-held Torra di...
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Brigade of Guards, (formed from a battalion of each regiment) The Corsican Rangers, The Royals and 54th. The landing force totaled 5,230 men. All troops were...
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HMS Victory (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
from shipping in supplies. On 24 January, Hood received word that the Corsicans wished for the governance and protection of Britain and set off with his...
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in the fighting in Corsica, which led to the establishment of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom. At the Siege of Calvi, the regiment inflicted heavy casualties...
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Dunseath, killed in the Teebane massacre was a member of the Royal Irish Rangers: Royal Irish Rangers roll of honour Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback...
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November 14, 1941 Miss Polly produced by Hal Roach November 28, 1941 The Corsican Brothers distribution only; produced by Edward Small Fiesta produced by...
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cricketer) (1898–1988), New Zealand cricketer John Cameron (Rangers footballer), played for Rangers and made one appearance for Scotland in 1886 John Cameron...
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Raiders (1941, Serial) as Jenkins Double Trouble (1941) as Seaman The Corsican Brothers (1941) as Castle Guard (uncredited) Paris Calling (1941) as German...
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James Henry Craig Advanced Corps: Brigadier-General John Brodrick Corsican Rangers (740 men) Battalion of light infantry Battalion of grenadiers Chasseurs...
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