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Near this spot, Samuel Whittemore, then 80 years old, killed three British soldiers, April 19, 1775. He was shot, bayoneted, beaten and left for dead, but recovered and lived to be 98 years of age. In 2005, Massachusetts Senator Robert Havern III proposed that Whittemore be proclaimed the official state hero of Massachusetts and his memory be ...
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.
13 August – 12 British soldiers of 'B' Company, 4th Wiltshires, 43rd Wessex Division, were killed and 25 others wounded when they were hit by rockets and machine gun attacks by RAF Typhoons near La Villette, Calvados, France. [211]
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
The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot . In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named the 9th Regiment of Foot .
Very little is known of Hamilton's early life. He was the third son of Alexander (died 1768) [2] and Margaret Hamilton (died 1742). [2] His two older brothers were Alexander (died 1783) [3] and Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), [2] the latter a painter and archeologist in Rome. [4]