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Thomas Picton (Poyston, 24 agosto 1758 – Waterloo, 18 giugno 1815) è stato un generale gallese. Combatté un gran numero di campagne nell'esercito britannico sino a raggiungere il rango di tenente generale .
1 de ago. de 2022 · By Nicola Bryan. BBC News. A portrait of slave owner Sir Thomas Picton has been put back on display, albeit boxed up-and alongside new artworks and information that "reframes" his place in history ...
5 de out. de 2021 · Sir Martin Archer Shee's portrait of Thomas Picton has been a part of the museum's collection since 1907. Two new artist commissions by the National Museum in Cardiff will re-examine the legacy of ...
Most particularly, he is anxious about the investigation of General Thomas Picton, the island’s first British governor, and by Picton’s conviction in the court of King’s Bench. “Strange,” Hislop observes, “that all the bigger charges of hanging and theft should have been thrown out, and this case of petty theft should have brought Picton down.
23 de jun. de 2020 · Who was Thomas Picton? Picton was commissioned in 1771, and was, according to the description on his portrait by Sir Martin Archer in the National Museum Wales collections, "a controversial governor of Trinidad in 1797-1803". The details of the said controversy are well illustrated in his trial for inflicting torture on Louisa Calderon (The ...
10 de mar. de 2021 · Picton was tried in London before the Court of King’s Bench on February 24, 1806. At the heart of the trial was Louisa Calderón (1787-1825), a 13 year old girl of mixed racial ancestry who was subjected in 1801 to a kind of torture known as “picketing” — now colloquially called “Picton-ing.”. This trial, and the act of torture it ...
Picton, Sir Thomas (1758–1815). Soldier. Born in Pembrokeshire, he joined the army at 13, but was put on half-pay at the peace in 1783. In 1794 he volunteered for service in the West Indies and fought with distinction, being appointed governor of Trinidad, captured from the Spaniards, in 1797.
