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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 ...
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  • ...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]] ...
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  • {{For|the military academy|Addiscombe Military Seminary}} | official_name = Addiscombe ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ...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 [[ ...
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  • {{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 ...
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  • ...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. ...
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  • ...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. ...
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  • 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" ...
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  • {{other people||Robert Montgomery (disambiguation)}} | alma_mater = [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]] ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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. ...
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  • '''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 [[ ...
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  • ...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. ...
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