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General

Name: General – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / Military. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records

1758–1943Date range

8Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1758

Jeffrey Amherst1758

London · Warfare / Military

Appointed Commander of an expedition against the French in Canada

1778

Henry Clinton8 May 1778

London · Warfare / Military

Appointed Commander of the British forces in America

1907

John Denton Pinkstone French Ypres, 1st1907

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

1914

Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st1914

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton1914

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

1937

Vereker Gort, 6th1937

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

1940

Archibald Wavell Wavell, 1st1940

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

1943

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st1943

Warfare / Military

Appointed General

Names involved

Archibald Wavell Wavell, 1stBernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stDouglas Haig Bemersyde, 1stHenry ClintonIan Standish Monteith HamiltonJeffrey AmherstJohn Denton Pinkstone French Ypres, 1stVereker Gort, 6th

Provenance

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