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- ...He died at [[Cheltenham]], to which he had retired, having been discharged from the army due to poor health. ...rfield]], and at [[Winchester College]]. At the [[East India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] (1818–19) he trained as an officer cadet.<ref name="ODN ...4 KB (532 words) - 11:08, 1 March 2025
- ...32.</ref> A process devised by him for the manufacture of illuminating gas from turpentine and resin was in use in [[New York City]] for a time.{{sfn|Chish [[Category:People of the Industrial Revolution]] ...5 KB (577 words) - 11:02, 10 June 2025
- {{For|the military academy|Addiscombe Military Seminary}} | official_name = Addiscombe ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 23:49, 19 October 2025
- Cavagnari was the son of Count Louis Adolphus Cavagnari, of an old family from [[Parma]] in the service of the [[House of Bonaparte|Bonaparte]] family, by ...India Company|East India Company]]. After passing through college at the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]], he served through the [[Awadh|Oudh]] campaign against ...5 KB (657 words) - 14:03, 2 May 2025
- ...pany]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|Military Seminary at Addiscombe]], from where he obtained his commission in December 1836.<ref>Vibart 1897, p. 461. ...h reinforcements from the [[Punjab region|Punjab]], and of the siege train from Phillour. Nicholson then joined Baird Smith in compelling Wilson to make [[ ...6 KB (811 words) - 13:44, 15 March 2024
- {{other people|James Browne}} ...[East India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|Military College at Addiscombe]] in February 1856, and received a commission in the [[Bengal Engineers]] o ...7 KB (1,056 words) - 18:59, 11 March 2025
- ...am Makepeace Thackeray]]. He was educated at [[Marlborough College]] and [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]].<ref>Philip A. Wilkins, ''The History of the Victoria C ...e and heavy musketry fire from the enemy, at the imminent risk of his life from the explosion of combustible stores in the shed in which the fire occurred. ...4 KB (565 words) - 04:45, 17 March 2025
- ...l electromagnet, invented by Sturgeon in 1824. Sturgeon's original drawing from his 1824 paper to the ''British Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Co ...with a seven-ounce piece of iron wrapped with wire through which a current from a single battery was sent. ...5 KB (718 words) - 22:50, 15 April 2025
- Schetky was descended from an old [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]]-[[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Transylvanian]] fami ...India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|Military Seminary]] at [[Addiscombe]], Surrey,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} where the cadets nicknamed him "Sepia Jack" ...5 KB (740 words) - 12:36, 29 March 2025
- {{other people||Robert Montgomery (disambiguation)}} | alma_mater = [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] ...8 KB (1,147 words) - 21:06, 13 February 2025
- ...ern Ireland]]), and Charlotte Moore.<ref name=":1" /> He was educated at [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] (1826–1827) and entered the [[Bombay Artillery]] in 182 ...otal massacre of the retreating British and Sepoy troops in the evacuation from Kabul to [[Jelalabad]] in January 1842. Released, after some months in cap ...7 KB (977 words) - 17:30, 7 May 2025
- ...red the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|East India Military College]], in [[Addiscombe]], England, and was commissioned in 1861 into the [[Madras Infantry]].<ref ...within the Australian military, which was raised from volunteers recruited from men based in rural Victoria. In establishing his new unit, Price obtained p ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 01:28, 3 December 2023
- ...Baronet]], of [[Walcot, Oxfordshire]]. The Jenkinson family was descended from [[Anthony Jenkinson]] (died 1611), who was a sea-captain, merchant, and tra ...l of Guilford|Lord North's]] ministry in 1782 he was [[Secretary at War]]. From 1786 to 1804, he was [[President of the Board of Trade]] and [[Chancellor o ...13 KB (1,681 words) - 14:17, 24 June 2025
- ...rvivors of the [[1842 retreat from Kabul#Retreat and massacre|1842 retreat from Kabul]], and another [[James Travers]], who won the VC in the Indian Mutiny Macintyre was educated at [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] from 1848 to 1850.<ref>Philip A. Wilkins, ''The History of the Victoria Cross: B ...6 KB (760 words) - 10:16, 3 November 2024
- ...needlework]]. He was educated at [[Blundell's School]], Tiverton, and at [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] (1847–48). ...7, colonel-commandant of [[Royal Engineers]] in 1890, and general in 1892. From 1881, he was in the government of India, and he was made a Companion of [[O ...8 KB (1,085 words) - 17:14, 7 June 2025
- ...1852 to 1860. After leaving [[Sherborne School|Sherborne]] he attended [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] and in 1861 entered the Indian Staff Corps. After servi ...ttle time, and he died on Easter Sunday, having never completely recovered from a severe operation which he had to undergo. In him the OS Society has lost ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 17:32, 19 March 2025
- ...East India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|Military Seminary at Addiscombe]], graduating in June 1841 and receiving a commission in the [[Bengal Horse ...He fought at the [[Battle of Badli-ki-Serai]], where two horses were shot from under him. He was also present at the [[Siege of Delhi]], during which he c ...11 KB (1,600 words) - 04:52, 21 January 2025
- ...East India Company]]'s [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|Military Seminary at Addiscombe]]. He passed out in the [[artillery]], and joined the headquarters of the [ ...o England, and was appointed an orderly officer at the Military College of Addiscombe. ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 20:35, 21 July 2024
- '''Velodromo Vigorelli''' (from 2001 officially '''Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli''') is a {{convert|397|m|yd f The stadium holds 9,000 people and was built in 1935 by Vigorelli Cycles. It was burned down during the [[ ...7 KB (985 words) - 08:33, 15 February 2024
- ...bury Brook''' is a tributary of the [[River Wandle]] that rises near Lower Addiscombe Road and flows north-west through [[Selhurst]], [[Thornton Heath]], and [[N ...level can rise several feet in a few minutes, as the water rapidly drains from the roads and hard surfaces around and into the surface water drain. ...3 KB (519 words) - 14:45, 5 February 2024