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Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB ( 13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809 ) was a British soldier and General.
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It passed the Self-denying Ordinance, by which all members of either House of Parliament laid down their commands, and re-organized its main forces into the New Model Army (" Army "), under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Cromwell as his second-in-command and Lieutenant-General of Horse.
In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
In vain, Montgomery complained about this to the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff in London, Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye.
The British XVII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, relieved the French Tenth Army in the sector in February 1916, permitting the French to expand their operations at Verdun.
The position of Governor of Edinburgh Castle, which had been vacant since 1876, was revived in 1935 as an honorary title for the General Officer Commanding in Scotland, the first holder being Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Cameron of Lochiel.
One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia, while during the Battle of Loos ( June – December 1915 ) a battalion of the 8th Gurkhas fought to the last man, hurling themselves time after time against the weight of the German defences, and in the words of the Indian Corps commander, Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks, "... found its Valhalla ".
As of January 2012 the Chairman of the Trustees is Sir Francis Richards and his deputy is Lieutenant-General Sir John Kiszely.
Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett " Joe " Lumsden ( 12 November 1821 – 12 August 1896 ) was a British military officer active in India.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who commanded XII Corps during World War I, was his uncle.
* July 1939 – 1941: Lieutenant-General ( Local General ) Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, KCB, CMG, MC
Wavell concurred as did Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, now the military governor of Cyrenaica, and XIII Corps resumed its advance.
The inexperienced 2nd Armoured Division was soundly defeated and on 2 April Wavell came forward to review matters with Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame, by now the commander of British and Commonwealth troops in Cyrenaica ( Wilson having left to command the Allied expeditionary force in Greece ).
On 27 November he was removed from his post and was ordered to take over from Lieutenant-General Sir Mosley Mayne as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command in India.
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O ' Connor ( centre, middle distance ) along with Brigadier John Frederick Boyce Combe | John Combe ( left ), Lieutenant-General Philip Neame ( centre ) and Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry ( right ), and following their capture in North Africa.
The persons constituted to be of that committee were Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Sir Arthur Haslerig, Lieutenant-General Fleetwood, Col. Sydenham, Major Saloway, Col. John Jones, and Endmond Ludlow.
A Statement of Policy issued by the Colonial Office in London on 7 September declared the situation a: " direct challenge to the authority of the British Government in Palestine " and announced the appointment of Lieutenant-General John Dill as supreme military commander.
The first Australian-( and Queensland -) born Governor of Queensland was Lieutenant-General Sir John Lavarack ( appointed 1946 ).
Brooke turned down Mountbatten's initial request for either Lieutenant-General Archibald Nye or Lieutenant-General John Swayne.
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby PC, ( 2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770 ), British soldier, was the eldest son of the 3rd Duke of Rutland.
John Ramsay ( 1775 – 1842 ), fourth son of the eighth Earl, was a Lieutenant-General in the service of the General Staff of India.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC better known as Glubb Pasha ( born 16 April 1897, Preston, Lancashire – died 17 March 1986, Mayfield, Sussex ), was a British soldier, scholar and author, best known for leading and training Transjordan's Arab Legion 1939-1956 as its commanding general.
In that campaign, the regiment fought at the Battle of La Corunna in January 1809, as part of the 2nd Division, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope.
Alexander's original plan — as formulated by his Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General John Harding — was to storm the Gothic Line in the center, where most of his forces were already concentrated.
He also wrote a preface to the Report on the Proceedings of the Board of General Officers on their Examination into the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope, in which he gave an apology for the battle of Prestonpans.
Birdwood attained command of the British Fifth Army on 31 May 1918, with command of the Australian Corps passing to Lieutenant-General John Monash.
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