The battle was fought in July 1780 between a force of Americans, led by Captain Robert Love, and a force of 150 British Loyalists on their way to Charlotte to join Lord Cornwallis, the British commander in the Southern colonies.

Gates served under Cornwallis when the latter was governor of Nova Scotia, and also developed a relationship with the lieutenant governor, Robert Monckton.

He wrote that the first chapter of the history of British India " embraces chronologically the first half of George III's reign, that stormy period of transition in English history when at the same time America was lost and India won ... covers the two great careers of Robert Clive and Hastings ... he end of the struggle is marked by the reign of Lord Cornwallis, which began in 1785.

* ( Anne ) Theresa Cripps ( 1919 – 1998 ), who was married 1945 to Sir Robert Cornwallis Gerald St. Leger Ricketts, 7th Bt, and had two sons and two daughters.

The many European travellers who met with Mzilikazi include Robert Moffat the missionary, David Hume the explorer / trader, Andrew Smith the medical doctor, ethnologist and zoologist, William Cornwallis Harris the hunter and the missionary explorer David Livingstone.

Built in 1730 by Robert Mann, it was later home to Sir Horatio Mann, the fourth and fifth Earls Cornwallis and Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis.

General Lord Cornwallis receiving Tipoo Sultan's sons as hostages, by Robert Home, c. 1793

When the Kingston returned to England in 1759, Cornwallis was taken aboard the 60-gun by Captain Robert Digby.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Robert William Henry Maude, second son of the first Viscount.

He was the son of Ludlow Eustace Maude, younger son of the aforementioned Robert William Henry Maude.

The Maude Baronetcy, of Dundrum in the County of Tipperary, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 9 May 1705 for the first Viscount's father Robert Maude.

* Sir Robert Maude, 1st Baronet ( d. 1750 )

* Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden ( 1842 – 1908 )

* Robert Leslie Eustace Maude, 8th Viscount Hawarden ( 1926 – 1991 )

* Robert Connan Wyndham Leslie Maude, 9th Viscount Hawarden ( b. 1961 )

Frank Packer was born in Kings Cross, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, to Ethel Maude Packer ( née Hewson ) ( 1878 – 1947 ) and Robert Clyde Packer ( 1879 – 1934 ), who started the family's association with the media as a journalist in New South Wales.

He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular hero in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud.

Robert Eustace Maude.

Other passengers include a wealthy woman of working-class origins based on Molly Brown, Maude Young ( Thelma Ritter ); a social-climbing snob, Earl Meeker ( Allyn Joslyn ); a 20-year-old Purdue University tennis player, Gifford Rogers ( Robert Wagner ), who falls in love with Annette Sturges ; and a priest who has been suspended for alcoholism, George S. Healey ( Richard Basehart ).

* 1757 – Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State ( d. 1842 )

* Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits ; 6th Ed ; Robert F Coughlin ; 529 pages ; 2000 ; ISBN 978-0-13-014991-6.

Robert was the first son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick.

* Marjorie, married Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, their son became King Robert II.

* April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford ( b. c. 1257 )

It was at this point that Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale ( father of the future King Robert the Bruce ) was appointed by Edward as the governor of Carlisle Castle.

The museum exhibits include tapestries from the sixteenth century given by Robert de Lenoncourt ( who died in 1532 ), marble capitals from the fourth century AD, furniture, jewellery, pottery, weapons and glasswork from the 6th to 8th century, medieval sculpture, the façade of the 13th-century Musicians ' House, remnants from an earlier abbey building, and also exhibits of Gallo-Roman arts and crafts and a room of pottery, jewellery, and weapons from Gallic civilization, as well as an exhibit of items from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic periods.

On August 15, 1944, airborne units of the 6th Army Group provisional airborne division, commanded by US Major General Robert T. Frederick, opened Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, with a dawn assault.

She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died in his teens ; secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish ; thirdly to Sir William St Loe ; and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, sometime keeper to the captive Mary, Queen of Scots.

Named for the Cinque Ports town of Romney, Kent, England by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the town still bears placenames and symbols from its colonial past such as its Marsham Street, named for Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney.

In 1721 a force of men from the Clan Ross, led by chief William Ross 6th of the Pitcalnie line and his brother Robert went on a rent collecting expedition into the lands of the MacKenzies. They were defeated by the Mackenzies at the Battle of Glen Affric.

* Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet ( Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, 1694 – 1770 ), Scottish genealogist

* Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer ( 1857 – 1922 )

He was succeeded by his son William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (?– 1254 ) who married Sibyl Marshall and then Margaret De Quincy with whom he had his son and heir Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby ( 1239 – 1279 ), who became the next Earl.

* Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby ( 1239 – 1279 )

12 Songs was also critically acclaimed ( 6th best album of the seventies according to Rolling Stone critic Robert Christgau ), but again found little commercial success, though Three Dog Night made a huge hit of his " Mama Told Me Not to Come.

* Robert ( 1813 ), who became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, married Katherine-Mary ( d 1869 ), 2nd daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6th Baronet.

King Robert I of Scotland, better known as Robert the Bruce had close ties with the nearby village of Writtle and there is some evidence to suggest he was born at Montpeliers Farm in the village, but the story is disputed and possibly conflated with his father, Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale.

* Robert Edward Peter Cecil Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury ( 1916 – 2003 )

In 1812 Constable, who had admitted Robert Cathcart and Robert Cadell as partners on Hunter's retirement, purchased the copyright of the Encyclopædia Britannica, adding the supplement ( 6 vols, 1816-1824 ) to the 4th, 5th and 6th editions.

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

* 1769 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Anglo-Irish politician ( d. 1822 )

* 1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer, politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.

* September 14 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1958 )

* May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet ( i. e., prime minister ).

* August 12 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary ( suicide ) ( b. 1769 )

His younger son, Sir Robert Cecil ( later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbury ), inherited his political mantle, taking on the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I.

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies wrote back to Bligh, his instructions being received on 31 December 1807.

* Robert Douglas, Viscount Belhaven d. 1639.

* Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ( 1759 – 1822 ), educated in The Royal School, Armagh.

Meanwhile, his wife began an affair with Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, a favorite of King James I.

* Robert Douglas, Viscount Belhaven ( executed 1584 ), Gentlemen of the Bedchamber

Robert Stewart acquired the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh in 1796 when his father was created Earl of Londonderry in the Irish peerage.

* A Letter to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, John C. Hobhouse, London: Robert Stodart ( 1819 ), on the Peterloo massacre

The medieval town was demolished and the then owners of Mitchelstown ; Robert, Viscount Kingsborough ( later 2nd Earl of Kingston ) and his wife Caroline, built a new palladian styled mansion to replace the earlier castle which had stood on the site.

The party in the administration of Robert Harley ( created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer on 23 May 1711 ) and the Viscount Bolingbroke proved more flexible at the bargaining table and were characterised by the Whigs as " pro-French "; Oxford and Bolingbroke persuaded the Queen to create twelve new " Tory peers " to ensure ratification of the treaty in the House of Lords.

It was signed by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, for Britain and Hendrik Fagel ( or Henry Fagel ) for the Dutch.

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* Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ( 1769 – 1822 ), Anglo-Irish politician

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Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC ( Ire ) ( 27 September 1739 – 6 April 1821 ), was an Irish politician and landowner, the father of politician Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.

Viscount Ishii Kikujirō, Empire of Japan | Japanese special envoy, with United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing in Washington, D. C. in 1917 for the signing of the Lansing-Ishii Agreement

At the Restoration he was created Viscount Malden and Earl of Essex ( 20 April 1661 ), the latter title having previously died out with Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.