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A small British fleet then took shape at Norfolk, a port town whose merchants had significant Loyalist tendencies. Although the town did have some Patriot support, the threat posed by the British fleet may have played a role in minimizing their activity in the town. [3] 1781 British map showing forts in the Norfolk/Portsmouth area.
William John Lloyd (2 December 1778 – 29 July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815.. He was the son of Major John Lloyd, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, who had been aide-de-camp to General Sir Henry Clinton during the American War of Independence, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen.
Early in 1830, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, then Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, commissioned Siborne to construct a model of the Battle of Waterloo.Siborne carried out extensive research, writing to officers in the Allied forces present at the battle to obtain information on the positions of the troops at the crisis of the battle at 7 p.m.
Francis D'Oyly (British Army officer, died 1815) Magdalene De Lancey; Jean-Baptiste Decoster (guide) William Howe De Lancey; Amédée Despans-Cubières; Robert Henry Dick; Alexander Dickson (British Army officer) Karl Friedrich Emil zu Dohna-Schlobitten; Neil Douglas; Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon; Antoine Drouot; Guillaume Philibert Duhesme
Norfolk County in Massachusetts and New Hampshire (created in 1643 part of Massachusetts Bay Colony) had six towns shown in red and black. This is overlaid on a map of present-day MA and NH town borders in white. Norfolk County, Massachusetts Colony was one of the original four counties created in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The land was ...
The 4th Massachusetts was summoned for active service on April 15, 1861, in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops to put down the insurrection in the southern states. Despite the various companies being dispersed over a large area of southeastern Massachusetts, the regiment was present for duty in Boston on the evening of April ...
The Waterloo Soldier is the skeleton of a soldier who died during the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. The skeleton is kept at the Memorial of Waterloo 1815 . The remains were discovered in 2012 during archaeological excavations carried out on the construction site of a new car park created at the approach of the bicentenary of the battle in ...
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.