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John Talbot Coke, the Glossary

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Aldershot Command

Aldershot Command was a Home Command of the British Army.

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Arthur Wynne (British Army officer)

General Sir Arthur Singleton Wynne, (5 March 1846 – 6 February 1936), was a senior British Army officer from the Anglo-Irish gentry who served as Military Secretary. John Talbot Coke and Arthur Wynne (British Army officer) are British Army personnel of the Mahdist War and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Battle of Colenso

The Battle of Colenso was the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War.

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Battle of Laing's Nek

The Battle of Laing's Nek was a major battle fought at Laing's Nek during the First Boer War on 28 January 1881.

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Battle of Spion Kop

The Battle of Spion Kop (Slag bij Spionkop.; Slag van Spioenkop) was a military engagement between British forces and two Boer Republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the initial months of the Second Boer War.

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Battle of Suakin

The Battle of Suakin (also known as the Battle of Gemaizah), occurred on 20 December 1888 during the Mahdist War, when General Francis Grenfell defeated a Mahdist (Often called Dervishes by Europeans), force near Suakin, a chief port of Sudan.

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Battle of the Tugela Heights

The Battle of Tugela (or Thukela) Heights, also known as the Battle of Pieters Hill, Battle of the Pieters, or the Battle of the Tugela River, consisted of a series of military actions lasting from 14 February through to 27 February 1900 in which General Sir Redvers Buller's British army forced Louis Botha's Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

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Battle of Vaal Krantz

The Battle of Vaal Krantz (Afrikaans: Slag van Vaalkrans, 5 - 7 February 1900) was the third failed attempt by General Redvers Buller's British army to fight its way past Louis Botha's army of Boer irregulars and lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

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Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements.

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Brigadier (United Kingdom)

Brigadier (Brig) is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Mauritius

Mauritius was a Crown colony off the southeast coast of Africa.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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Charles Metcalfe (British Army officer)

Major-General Charles Theophilus Evelyn Metcalfe, CB (7 February 1856 – 1912) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 6th Division. John Talbot Coke and Charles Metcalfe (British Army officer) are British Army major generals and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Charles Warren

General Sir Charles Warren, (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. John Talbot Coke and Charles Warren are British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Colonel (United Kingdom)

Colonel (Col) is a rank of the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking below brigadier, and above lieutenant colonel.

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Commanding officer

The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG) or general officer commanding (GOC), is the officer in command of a military unit.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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D'Ewes Coke

D'Ewes Coke (1747 – 12 April 1811) was rector of Pinxton and South Normanton in Derbyshire, a colliery owner and philanthropist.

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Deputy lieutenant

In the United Kingdom, a deputy lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the lord-lieutenant of a lieutenancy area – an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Earl of Desmond

Earl of Desmond (meaning Earl of South Munster) is a title of nobility created by the English monarch in the peerage of Ireland.

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Edward Woodgate

Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate (1 November 1845 – 23 March 1900) was an infantry officer in the British Army. John Talbot Coke and Edward Woodgate are British Army major generals and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Fenian raids

The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.

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Geoffrey Barton

Major General Sir Geoffrey Barton, (22 February 1844 – 8 July 1922) of the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers), served the British Army from 1862 until 1904. John Talbot Coke and Geoffrey Barton are British Army major generals, British Army personnel of the Mahdist War and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.

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John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, 1st Earl of Waterford, 7th Baron Talbot, KG (17 July 1453), known as "Old Talbot", was an English nobleman and a noted military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

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Khedive's Star

The Khedive's Star was a campaign medal established by Khedive Tewfik Pasha to reward those who had participated in the military campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan between 1882 and 1891.

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King's Own Scottish Borderers

The King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division.

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Lieutenant

A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.

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Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen), formerly more commonly lieutenant-general, is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines.

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Mahdist War

The Mahdist War (ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.

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Major general (United Kingdom)

Major general (Maj Gen) is a "two-star" rank in the British Army and Royal Marines. John Talbot Coke and Major general (United Kingdom) are British Army major generals.

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Mentioned in dispatches

To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Natal Field Force

The Natal Field Force (NFF) was a multi-battalion field force originally formed by Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley in Natal for the First Boer War.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Order of the Medjidie

Order of the Medjidie (نشانِ مجیدیه, August 29, 1852 – 1922) is a military and civilian order of the Ottoman Empire.

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Redvers Buller

General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. John Talbot Coke and Redvers Buller are British Army personnel of the Mahdist War and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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Relief of Ladysmith

When the Second Boer War broke out on 11 October 1899, the Boers had a numeric superiority within Southern Africa.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.

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South African Light Horse

The South African Light Horse regiment of the British Army were raised in Cape Colony in 1899 and disbanded in 1907.

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South Derbyshire

South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Thomas Snow (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow, (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British Army officer who fought on the Western Front during the First World War. John Talbot Coke and Thomas Snow (British Army officer) are British Army personnel of the Mahdist War and British Army personnel of the Second Boer War.

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The 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756.

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John Talbot Coke, the Glossary

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Coke family

Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire

People from South Derbyshire District

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