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Born April 15, 1721 • London • England
Died October 31, 1765 (aged 44) • London • England
Role In Battle of Culloden • Battle of Fontenoy • Forty-five Rebellion
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Robert Clive
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British colonial administrator
portrait of Thomas Gage by John Singleton Copley
Thomas Gage
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Sir Eyre Coote
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Wolfe, James
James Wolfe
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Edward Braddock
Edward Braddock
British commander
Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron
Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
British statesman
James Abercrombie
British general
Sir James Craig
governor general of Canada
Edward Marcus Despard
British military officer
James Murray, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist
James Murray
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John Closterman: portrait of John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough
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Saxe, detail of a portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Staatliche Museum, Dresden, Ger.
Maurice, count de Saxe
French general
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, detail of an oil painting attributed to J. van Diest, c. 1718; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
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Sackville, George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount, Baron Bolebrooke of Sussex
George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
English politician and soldier
Henry Seymour Conway
British commander and politician
Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stringer Lawrence
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
William Howe
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John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll
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Thomas Gainsborough: portrait of Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
British army commander