Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence. Howe was one of three brothers who had distinguished military careers.
William Dawson, 1st Viscount Carlow; Francis Smith, 2nd Viscount Carrington; Christopher Wandesford, 1st Viscount Castlecomer; William Handcock, 1st Viscount Castlemaine; George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton; Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton; James Caulfeild, 3rd Viscount Charlemont; George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth
Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 4th Viscount Howe 1st Baron Howe 1726–1799: William Howe 5th Viscount Howe 5th Baron Glenawley 7th Baronet 1729–1814: John Howe 2nd Baron Chedworth 1714–1762: Henry Howe 3rd Baron Chedworth 1716–1781: Hon. Thomas Howe died 1776: Earldom and GB viscountcy extinct: Viscountcy, barony and baronetcy extinct: Hon ...
Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 4th Viscount Howe 1st Baron Howe 1726–1799: William Howe 5th Viscount Howe 5th Baron Glenawley 7th Baronet 1729–1814: John Howe 2nd Baron Chedworth 1714–1762: Henry Howe 3rd Baron Chedworth 1716–1781: Hon. Thomas Howe died 1776: Earldom and GB viscountcy extinct: Viscountcy, barony and baronetcy extinct: Hon ...
William Howe may refer to: William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), British general during American Revolutionary War; William Howe (architect) (1803–1852), patented Howe truss for covered bridges; William Howe (mayor) (1864–1952), newspaperman in Victoria, Australia; William B. W. Howe (1824–1894), Bishop of South Carolina
Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 4th Viscount Howe 1st Baron Howe 1726–1799: William Howe 5th Viscount Howe 5th Baron Glenawley 7th Baronet 1729–1814: John Howe 2nd Baron Chedworth 1714–1762: Henry Howe 3rd Baron Chedworth 1716–1781: Hon. Thomas Howe died 1776: Earldom and GB viscountcy extinct: Viscountcy, barony and baronetcy extinct: Hon ...
8 June – William Tryon, general and Governor of North Carolina and New York (passed 1788) 9 June – Thomas Turner, diarist (passed 1793) 10 August – William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, general (passed 1814) October – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, born William Johnstone, Scottish advocate, landowner and politician (passed 1805)
According to these accounts, Custis befriended a young British officer on the staff of General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe. While in Cambridge, Massachusetts , the officer gave Custis a weeping willow ( Salix babylonica ) twig that the officer had taken from a famous tree that Alexander Pope had planted at Twickenham and that was first of ...