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Catherine, Sarah and Susannah and Eyre Coote. Eyre Coote (20 May 1762 – 10 December 1823) was an Irish -born British soldier and politician who served as Governor of Jamaica. He attained the rank of general in the British Army and was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath before being stripped of his rank and honours in 1816 ...
Eyre Coote, né en 1726 près de Limerick, en Irlande, et mort le 28 avril 1783 à Madras, aujourd'hui Chennai, était un général britannique. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Il prend part aux combats opposant la France et l'Angleterre en Inde, jouant un rôle important dans la prise de Calcutta , dont il devient gouverneur.
Is this little known general the third greatest British commander of all time?Court Martialled after his first battle, Eyre Coote went on to be Commander-in-...
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Há 5 dias · In the west aisle of the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a very large white marble monument (26 feet high and 12 feet wide) to the memory of Lt. General Sir Eyre Coote. It is by the sculptor Thomas Banks, 1789, and shows at the base a sarcophagus on which is a relief of an elephant and above, against the pyramid, is a palm tree with ...
Coote’s father had succeeded to the wealth of his celebrated military uncle and namesake, whom he had followed into the army, in 1796. He had sat in the Irish Parliament for Ballinakill, 1790-7, and Maryborough, 1797-1800, and at Westminster for Queen’s County from 1802 to 1806, when he had been appointed governor and commander-in-chief of ...
career of Eyre Coote, in all probability the most distin-guished warrior whose name figures on its lengthy roll of honour. Born in 1726, of a noble Irish family, Coote entered the army while still in his 'teens. Little is known of his share in the German campaign and the fighting of '45, but it is clear that in 1754 he sailed for India with the
The Newspapers series contains 83 newspaper clippings, nearly all collected by Eyre Coote (1857-1925), with various references to either Sir Eyre Coote or the Coote family. These clippings span from 1766-1926 and come from 24 different publications (see Additional Descriptive Data for a complete list).
