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    Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby KB (7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general...
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    The Sir Ralph Abercromby, also known as the Abercrombie, is a pub between Jackson's Row and Bootle Street, in Manchester, England, named after Lieutenant-General...
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    attested to in 1296 with William de Abercromby, who was given charter of Abercrombie, Fife. Lt.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby was a notable commander during the...
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    Ralph Abercromby (11 February 1842 – 21 June 1897) was a Scottish meteorologist. Abercromby was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, the youngest son of...
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    Jacques-François Menou and the British expeditionary corps under Sir Ralph Abercromby. The battle took place near the ruins of Nicopolis, on the narrow spit...
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  • Sir Ralph Abercromby Campbell (16 March 1906 – 10 October 1989) was a British colonial judge who was Chief Justice of the Bahamas from 10 August 1960 to...
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    Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire from 1798 to 1802. The youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, he fought in the American War of Independence before serving in India...
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    martyr Ralph de Warneville (died 1191), twentieth Lord Chancellor of England as well as later Bishop of Lisieux in Normandy Ralph Abercromby (1734–1801)...
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    position. Abercromby was the third son of General Sir Ralph Abercromby, who fell at the Battle of Alexandria, and Mary, 1st Baroness Abercromby, daughter...
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    of her husband, the noted military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, who won the Battle of Aboukir in 1801 and later died from wounds at...
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  • Governor Abercromby may refer to: John Abercromby (British Army officer) (1772–1817), Acting Governor of Madras in 1913 Ralph Abercromby (1734–1801),...
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    British and Russian forces under the command of the Duke of York, Sir Ralph Abercromby and the Prince of Orange. An Anglo-Russian force of 32,000 men landed...
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  • Chacón surrendered Trinidad to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby. The King of Spain set up a "Council of War" to look into the surrender...
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    under Ralph Abercromby, during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. The British army, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, had...
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  • politician, son of Ralph Abercromby John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924), Scottish antiquary Julia Janet Georgiana Abercromby (1840–1915), British...
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    of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. Although the British government...
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    vicinity of Canterbury under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby. They were mostly made up of volunteers from the militia who had recently...
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    under command of General Ralph Abercromby, the armies order of battle in March 1800 was; Commanding General, General Ralph Abercromby Chief of Staff, Lieutenant...
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    continued sitting. Overall command of the army was transferred from Ralph Abercromby to Gerard Lake who turned his attention to Leinster and Munster where...
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    arranged. Contrary to all reasonable expectations, the force under Sir Ralph Abercromby took no direct part in this action; consequently the allied troops...
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    February 1797, a fleet of 18 British warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby invaded and took the Island of Trinidad. Within a few days the last...
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    Nile Delta. The landing of the British expeditionary force under Sir Ralph Abercromby was intended to defeat or drive out an estimated 21,000 remaining troops...
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    afterwards he was promoted major in the 58th Regiment of Foot. Under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who succeeded Vaughan in 1795, Picton was present at the capture of...
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    amphibious landing by a British invasion force under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby near Callantsoog in the course of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland...
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    by the Union Jack. Upon the capture of the fort, Moore's superior, Ralph Abercromby, departed the island and placed Moore in charge of the British garrison...
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  • Alexander Abercromby, third son of the first baronet, was the grandfather of Sir Ralph Abercromby, whose wife was created Baroness Abercromby in his honour...
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  • George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby (30 May 1800 – 25 June 1852) was a Scottish soldier, politician and peer. The son of George Abercromby...
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    surrendered the island to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1797. Trinidad and Tobago were ceded to Britain in 1802 under the...
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    Commander-in Chief, Bombay Army and Madras Army Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734—1801), Commander-in-Chief, Ireland Lieutenant-General William...
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    Caribbean colonies. Admiral Sir Henry Harvey's fleet picked up Sir Ralph Abercromby's army in Barbados. Together, they captured Trinidad from the Spanish...
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