John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
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John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
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Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier,, styled Sir John Ligonier from 1743 to 1757, was a French-born British soldier and politician who fought for the English and British armies for more than half a century. In 1757, he was appointed Commander-in-chief and raised to the peerage as Viscount Ligonier in 1757, and in 1766 further elevated as Earl Ligonier. Ligonier was a Huguenot refugee who fled his native Castres for England in 1697, following the 1785 Edict of Fontainebleau, which stri
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British field marshal (1680–1770)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ligonier,_1st_Earl_Ligonier
date created:
2003-12-14T16:49:53Z
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2024-09-08T00:58:35Z
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