Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton GCB (24 August 1758 – 18 June 1815) was a Welsh military officer and colonial administrator who fought in the Napoleonic...
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Picton consisted of two separate villages, Hallowell Bridge and Picton, which occupied the opposite sides of Picton Bay. Named for General Sir Thomas...
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Look up picton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Picton may refer to: Picton, New South Wales, Australia Picton, Western Australia, an industrial suburb...
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after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo. Thomas Picton's connection...
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The Picton Monument in Carmarthen, Wales, is one of a number of memorials commemorating Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton. He was the highest ranking...
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Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School (redirect from Sir Thomas Picton School)
linked it with Sir Thomas Picton School and Pembrokeshire College. The school closed in 2018 when it merged with Sir Thomas Picton School to form Haverfordwest...
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Sir Thomas Picton was a First World War Royal Navy Lord Clive-class monitor. Sir Thomas Picton was the only Royal Navy ship ever named for Sir Thomas Picton...
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Louis XVIII of France. Other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Sir Thomas Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal...
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by Thomas John Clapperton William Williams, Pantycelyn (revivalist and hymn writer, 18th century) by Leonard Stanford Merrifield Sir Thomas Picton (general...
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band Picture Frame Seduction was formed in the Sir Thomas Picton School in 1978. Sir Thomas Picton GCB (1758–1815), a British army general, was born in...
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2020. "Cardiff museum takes down slave owner Thomas Picton's portrait". BBC. 3 November 2021. "Reframing Picton project". Retrieved 16 March 2024. Mason,...
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established as Stonequarry in 1841 and was renamed Picton in 1845. It was named for Sir Thomas Picton, a British army officer (described by historian Alessandro...
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Carmarthen (section Picton's monument)
erected at the west end of the town to honour Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton, from Haverfordwest, who had died at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815...
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The second line consisted of British and Hanoverian troops under Sir Thomas Picton, who were lying down in dead ground behind the ridge. All had suffered...
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Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King named the island "Picton" in honour of Thomas Picton, first British governor of Trinidad in the West-Indies. Lennox...
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governor Thomas Picton during the criminal procedure against eighteen-year-old Louisa Calderon in 1801. The former maid of governor Picton was accused...
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so unfamiliar by 1800 that when the then governor of Trinidad, Sir Thomas Picton, ordered Luisa Calderon, a woman of European and African ancestry to...
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attended Ysgol Nefyn (Nefyn School), Gwynedd on the Llŷn Peninsula and Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire as a child. At the age of 17...
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Thomas Picton Warlow Sr. House is a national historic site located at 701 Driver Avenue, Winter Park, Florida in Orange County. Construction on the house...
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Gerard (1970) as Marshal Millefleurs Waterloo (1970) as General Sir Thomas Picton Jane Eyre (1970) as Mr. Brocklehurst The Beloved (1971) as Father Nicholas...
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Gloucester and Edinburgh, one of George III's daughters. Picton, named for Sir Thomas Picton Wellington, named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington...
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Pentecostal Church in fellowship with the Assemblies of God). He attended Sir Thomas Picton School and was academically successful. He worked at the Arvato warehouse...
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in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars. The division fought at the Battle of Waterloo...
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Picton Castle (Welsh: Castell Pictwn) is a medieval castle near Haverfordwest in the community of Uzmaston, Boulston and Slebech, Pembrokeshire, Wales...
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Cardiff Council, Huw Thomas, supported calls to remove the statue due to Picton's treatment of slaves. A campaign to remove Picton's monument in Carmarthen...
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Twitter. "Statue of Sir Thomas Picton". VADS. Retrieved August 28, 2020.[permanent dead link] "Statue of slave owner Thomas Picton to be removed from Cardiff...
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the Treaty of Amiens (1802). The colony's first British governor was Thomas Picton, however his heavy-handed approach to enforcing British authority, including...
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the Mediterranean during World War I. Broken up in 1921. Sir Thomas Picton Thomas Picton Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1915 Served in the Mediterranean....
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Wellington's moderating transformation from soldier to statesman are discussed by Thomas Dwight Veve. A point made by Nicolle. Turkey, which had been excluded from...
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Regiment Stele to the French Young Guard. Stele to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton close to where he was killed. List of protected heritage sites in Waterloo...
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