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William Keir Grant, the Glossary

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General Sir William Keir Grant, KCB, GCH (born William Keir; 25 May 1771Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 – 7 May 1852) was a British Army general during the first half of the 19th century.[1]

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  1. 35 relations: Al Qasimi, Amir Khan (Nawab of Tonk), Battle of Famars, Battle of Marengo, Battle of Mondovì, Battle of Novi (1799), Battle of Rivoli, Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, Bhuj, Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards), Cutch State, Field force, Fife, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, General (United Kingdom), George III, Indian Staff Corps, Koblenz, Lion and Sun, Military Order of Maria Theresa, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Order of the Bath, Pindari, Piracy in the Persian Gulf, Ras Al Khaimah, Royal Guelphic Order, Royal Scots Greys, Sawantwadi taluka, Siege of Genoa (1800), Sir James Steuart Denham, 8th Baronet, Tonk State, Treaty of Amiens, Wahhabism, 15th The King's Hussars, 22nd Dragoons.

  2. Bengal Staff Corps officers
  3. Bombay Staff Corps officers

Al Qasimi

The Al Qasimi (القواسم, spelled sometimes as Al Qassimi or Al Qassemi; plural: Al Qawasem القواسمand, archaically, Joasmee) is an Arab dynasty in the Persian Gulf that rules Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, today forming two of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.

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Amir Khan (Nawab of Tonk)

Nawab Muhammad Amir Khan (1769–1834) was a military general in the service of Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Empire and later became the first ruler of the princely state of Tonk (in present day Rajasthan, India).

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Battle of Famars

The Battle of Famars was fought on 23 May 1793 during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

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Battle of Marengo

The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.

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Battle of Mondovì

The Battle of Mondovì was fought on 21 April 1796 between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont led by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi.

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Battle of Novi (1799)

The Battle of Novi (15 August 1799) saw a combined army of the Habsburg monarchy and Imperial Russians under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov attack a Republican French army under General Barthélemy Catherine Joubert.

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Battle of Rivoli

The Battle of Rivoli (14 January 1797) was a key military engagement during the War of the First Coalition in the vicinity of the village of Rivoli, then part of the Republic of Venice.

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Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies

In the Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies, fought on 24 April 1794, a small Anglo-Austrian cavalry force routed a vastly more numerous French division during the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Bhuj

Bhuj is a city and the headquarters of Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards)

The Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Cutch State

Cutch State, also spelled Kutch or Kachchh and also historically known as the Kingdom of Kutch, was a kingdom in the Kutch region from 1147 to 1819 and a princely state under British rule from 1819 to 1947.

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Field force

A field force in British, Indian Army and Tanzanian military parlance is a combined arms land force operating under actual or assumed combat circumstances, usually for the length of a specific military campaign.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Francis II and I (Franz II.; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor as Francis II from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria as Francis I from 1804 to 1835.

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General (United Kingdom)

General (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank achievable by serving officers of the British Army.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Indian Staff Corps

The Indian Staff Corps was a branch of the Indian Army during the British Raj.

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Koblenz

Koblenz is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary.

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Lion and Sun

The Lion and Sun (Šir-o Xoršid,; Classical Persian) is one of the main emblems of Iran (Persia), and was an element in Iran's national flag until the 1979 revolution and is still commonly used by nationalists and opposition groups of the Islamic Republic government.

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Military Order of Maria Theresa

The Military Order of Maria Theresa (Militär-Maria-Theresien-Orden; Katonai Mária Terézia-rend; Vojenský řád Marie Terezie; Wojskowy Order Marii Teresy; Vojaški red Marije Terezije; Vojni Red Marije Terezije) was the highest military honour of the Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Natural History Museum, Vienna

The Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria.

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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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Pindari

The Pindaris (Bhalse, Pasi, Maratha, Hindustani and Pathans) were irregular military plunderers and foragers in 17th- through early 19th-century Indian subcontinent who accompanied initially the Mughal Army, and later the Maratha Army, and finally on their own before being eliminated in the 1817–19 Pindari War.

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Piracy in the Persian Gulf

Piracy in the Persian Gulf describes the naval warfare that was prevalent until the 19th century and occurred between seafaring Arabs in Eastern Arabia and the British Empire in the Persian Gulf.

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Ras Al Khaimah

Ras Al Khaimah (رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة), often referred to its initials RAK and historically known as Julfar, is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Royal Guelphic Order

The Royal Guelphic Order (Königlicher Guelphen-Orden), sometimes referred to as the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, is a Hanoverian order of chivalry instituted on 28 April 1815 by the Prince Regent (later King George IV).

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Royal Scots Greys

The Royal Scots Greys was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 until 1971, when they amalgamated with the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) to form the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

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Sawantwadi taluka

Sawantwadi is a taluka (a unit of administration) in the Sindhudurg district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Siege of Genoa (1800)

The Siege of Genoa (19 April – 4 June 1800) saw a Habsburg Austrian army led by General der Kavallerie Michael von Melas attack the port of Genoa defended by a Republican French army under General of Division (GD) André Massena.

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Sir James Steuart Denham, 8th Baronet

General Sir James Steuart Denham, 8th and 4th Baronet (August 1744 – 12 August 1839) was a Scottish soldier of the British Army. William Keir Grant and Sir James Steuart Denham, 8th Baronet are British Army generals and Royal Scots Greys officers.

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Tonk State

Tonk was a princely state in India under the supervision of the Rajputana Agency of the British Raj.

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Treaty of Amiens

The Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.

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Wahhabism

Wahhabism (translit) is a reformist religious movement within Sunni Islam, based on the teachings of 18th-century Hanbali cleric Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.

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15th The King's Hussars

The 15th The King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army.

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22nd Dragoons

The 22nd Dragoons was the title held by five separate Cavalry regiments of the British Army raised and disbanded between 1716 and 1945.

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See also

Bengal Staff Corps officers

Bombay Staff Corps officers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Keir_Grant

Also known as Wiliiam Grant (British Army officer), William Grant (British Army officer), William Grant Keir (British Army officer), William Grant-Keir.