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

10Records
1748–1918Date range
7Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1748

James Wolfe5 January 1748

London · Warfare / Military

Appointed Major, Twentieth Foot

1758

James Wolfe1758

London · Warfare / Military

Appointed Major General by Pitt & given command of the expedition against Quebec

1793

Arthur Wellesley Wellington, 1st30 April 1793

Warfare / Military

Appointed Major

1898

Archibald James Murray1 June 1898

Warfare / Military

Appointed Major

1899

Douglas Haig Bemersyde, 1st1899

Warfare / Military

Appointed Major

1915

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill18 November 1915

Warfare / Military

Crosses the Channel to join his pre-1914 regiment of the Oxfordshire Hussars

1916

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1 January 1916

Meteren · Warfare / Military

Informed he will command the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill5 January 1916

Meteren · Warfare / Military

Takes command the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers

1917

Clement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1st1917

Warfare / Military

Appointed the rank of Major, and continued to be known as "Major Attlee" for much of the inter-war period

1918

Bernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1st1918

Warfare / Military

Appointed Major

Names involved

Archibald James MurrayArthur Wellesley Wellington, 1stBernard Law Montgomery Alamein, 1stClement Richard Attlee Attlee, 1stDouglas Haig Bemersyde, 1stJames WolfeWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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