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This is a list of people who have held 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 British military force since the Acts of Union 1707.
Pages in category "Military personnel of the English Civil War" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
Charles Cavendish (general, died 1643) Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Chicheley; Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet; James Chudleigh; Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland; Charles Compton (c. 1624–1661) William Compton (army officer) Humphrey Cornewall; Patricius Curwen
Fremantle was born into a distinguished military family; his father, Lieutenant-General John Fremantle, had commanded a battalion of the Coldstream Guards, and had served during the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign, as well as acting as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke during the abortive British invasion of Buenos Aires in 1807.
Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), American Civil War Union Army major general [44] Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), Confederate Army general and later US Army general and politician "The Fighting Quaker" – Smedley Butler , U.S. general
Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (/ ˈ k l eɪ b ɜːr n / KLAY-burn; March 16, 1828 – November 30, 1864) [1] was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
The violation of British neutral rights triggered an uproar in Britain. Britain sent 11,000 troops to Canada, and the British fleet was put on a war footing with plans to blockade New York City if war broke out. In addition, the British put an embargo on the export of saltpetre which the US needed to make gunpowder.