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Colonel Sir George Ashley Maude, KCB (11 November 1817 – 31 May 1894) was a British army officer and Crown Equerry to Queen Victoria. Eiography [ edit ] Born in 1817, he was the son of the Rev. Hon. John Charles Maude, of Enniskillen , Ireland, and Mary, daughter of William Cely Trevilian.
Description. George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II. He was born at Potheridge, near Great Torrington, in Devon, second son of Sir Thomas Monck, a gentleman of a good Devon family but in straitened financial circumstances.
George Monck at the Siege of Breda - 1636 From: A True and Brief Relation of the Famous Siege of Breda 1 : besieged, and taken under the able and victorious conduct of his Highness the Prince of Orange 2 , Captain General of the States' Army, and Admiral of the Seas, &c. Composed by Henry Hexham, Quartermaster to the Regiment of the Honorable Colonel [George] Goring 3 .
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. after Samuel Cooper. oil on canvas, based on a work of circa 1660. 30 1/8 in. x 25 in. (765 mm x 635 mm) Purchased, 1863. Primary Collection. NPG 154. On display at Gawthorpe Hall, Burnley.
28 de set. de 2015 · Monck is all but forgotten today, yet his legacy is nothing less than the British monarchy and a famous regiment - the Coldstream Guards. The trilogy The Forging Winter 1644, the Tower of London. Colonel George Monck is confined to his prison chamber in St Thomas’s tower, charged with high treason.
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, [1] King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to convene on 3 November 1640.
The chapter introduces General George Monck who gained his position by deploying political skill of a far higher order than any of his counterparts in England. It elaborates on the power that religious radicals exercised over the London officers, then demonstrates Monck's determination to save the English church from such fanatics.
