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Pages in category "British military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Ohio since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of America 1783–present.
General William Howe replaced Gage, and personally directed the war effort in 1776 and 1777, including the British captures of New York City and Philadelphia. He failed to gain control over New Jersey, and his actions in taking Philadelphia contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne 's Saratoga campaign .
List of generals of the British Empire who died during the First World War; List of British general officers killed in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; List of British Army full generals; List of Royal Marines full generals; List of British generals and brigadiers; List of Royal Flying Corps generals; List of Bulgarian generals ...
In 1791, Butler was commissioned a major general in the levies (i.e. militiamen conscripted into Federal service) under Major General Arthur St. Clair to fight against the Western Confederacy of Native Americans in the Northwest Territories (modern day Ohio). He was killed in action on November 4, 1791, in St. Clair's Defeat at what is now Fort ...
Lieutenant-General Martin Bricknell (1963— ), Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces; Brigadier John William Bridge CBE, Royal Engineers; Brigadier the Honourable Geoffrey Bridgeman (1898–1974), Royal Army Medical Corps; Major-General Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896–1982), deputy adjutant-general to the War Office
When the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, the Ohio River marked a tenuous border between the American colonies and the Natives of the Ohio Country. Ohio Natives—Shawnees, Mingos, Lenapes (Delawares), and Wyandots—were divided over how to respond to the war. Some Native leaders urged neutrality, while others entered the war because ...
Henry Barry (British Army officer) George Beckwith (British Army officer) Lieutenant General George Benson; Charles Blake (surgeon) John Blakeney (died 1789) William Blakeney (died 1804) Thomas Blomefield; Joseph Brant; Sir Gonville Bromhead, 1st Baronet; Montfort Browne; Richard Brunton (artist) John Burgoyne; Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet ...