Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore KB (13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809), also known as Moore of Corunna, was a senior British Army officer. He is best known...
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Moore (British Army officer) (1761–1809), British general, a.k.a. Moore of Corunna John Henry Moore (Texas settler) (1800–1880), settler and officer in the...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was a British Army officer and frontiersman. Born in Methuen, Massachusetts, he fought in King...
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Major General Sir John Jeremy Moore, KCB, OBE, MC & Bar (5 July 1928 – 15 September 2007) was a British senior Royal Marine officer who served as the...
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Major General Sir Lorenzo Moore KCH CB (c. 1765 – April 1837) was a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars. He also served for four...
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Portrait of Sir John Moore is a portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish army officer Sir John Moore, painted between 1800...
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general Claude Moore (1875–1928), British Army major general Jeremy Moore (1928–2007), Royal Marine major general John Moore (British Army officer) (1761–1809)...
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John Hamilton (1724 in Annapolis Royal – 1802 in Waterford, Ireland) was a British army officer of the 40th Regiment of Foot who fought in both King George's...
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General Sir John Alexander Dunlop Agnew Wallace KCB (c.1775 – 11 February 1857) was a British Army officer. He was the only son of Sir Thomas Dunlop Wallace...
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Educated at Harrow School he joined the army in 1811 in the 52nd Regiment of light infantry (his uncle, Sir John Moore, had formerly been Colonel), as Ensign;...
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James Moore (c. 1737 – c. April 15, 1777) was a Continental Army general during the American Revolutionary War. Moore was born into a prominent political...
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John Squire (1780–1812) was a British Army officer who rose to become a brevet lieutenant-colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers during the Napoleonic...
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current structure of the British Army. The British Army is currently being reorganised to the Future Soldier structure. The Army is commanded by the Chief...
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a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era who saw service during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign. He was the third son of Sir John Keane...
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Moore-Bick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Moore-Bick (born 1949), British Army officer Martin Moore-Bick (born 1946), British...
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Major-General John Armstrong (31 March 1674 – 15 April 1742) was a British military engineer and soldier, who served as Chief Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General...
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Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin KCB, KCMG, DSO, KStJ (24 May 1871 – 29 September 1960), known as Sir John Goodwin, was a British soldier and medical...
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The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY), and by a chief military officer, the chief...
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Lieutenant-General Sir William Inglis, KCB (1764 – 29 November 1835) was a British officer of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Inglis served at several...
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last day in the post. Army officers occupying the post of Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of all the British Armed Forces, were usually...
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model officer, and Moore declared that to the conduct of the reserve, and of Paget and Anstruther in particular, the safe arrival of the army at Corunna...
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Lines Harman Lines Winchester Garrison Sir John Moore Barracks Worthy Down Camp York Garrison – commanding officer of 2 Signal Regiment doubles as York Garrison...
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Alexander Abercromby CB (4 March 1784 – 27 August 1853) was a senior British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He also served for a short time as a...
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Brigadier General Francis McLean (c. 1717 – 4 May 1781) was a British army officer, one of two sons of Captain William Maclean and Anne Kinloch. He became...
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Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser. He made international...
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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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Balfour Traill CB (20 June 1833 — 20 November 1913) was a British Indian Army and British Army officer and an English first-class cricketer. The son of James...
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edited by John Pemble, Allan Sutton Publishing Ltd 1985, p. 4. Stephens, H. M. (23 September 2004). "Fane, Sir Henry (1778–1840), army officer". In Lunt...
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Red coat (military uniform) (redirect from Redcoat (British army))
tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by most regiments of the British Army, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the soldiers...
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several years. But on October 19, 1781, the British Army's defeat at the Siege of Yorktown led the British to conclude that the war was unwinnable, forcing...
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