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The British and French East India companies, present in Mughal India due to the hospitality of the Mughal emperors, were doing vibrant trade across the oceans between Mughal India and Europe. The British East India Company represented British trading interests with factories, ports at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay on the three
The siege of Port Royal (5–13 October 1710), [n 1] also known as the Conquest of Acadia, [4] was a military siege conducted by British regular and provincial forces under the command of Francis Nicholson against a French Acadian garrison and the Wabanaki Confederacy [5] under the command of Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, at the Acadian capital, Port Royal.
The regiment was renamed the 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1751. [1] The regiment made a desperate charge which saved the army at the Battle of Corbach in July 1760 and then made another famous charge at the Battle of Warburg later that month during the Seven Years' War. [1]
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The King's Regiment, officially abbreviated as KINGS, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division.It was formed on 1 September 1958 by the amalgamation of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) which had been raised in 1685 and the Manchester Regiment which traced its history to 1758.
The British fleet arrived outside the channel of the Port-Royal harbour on June 6, and troops were landed the next day. Governor Subercase's defence force at the time consisted of 100 Troupes de la Marine that had fortuitously been reinforced by the recent arrival of another 60 who were due to take command of a recently built frigate .
The Battle of Arnee (or Battle of Arni) occurred on 3 December 1751 during the Second Carnatic War. A British -led force under the command of Robert Clive defeated and routed a much larger Franco-Indian force under the command of Raza Sahib .
John Jameson (1751 – November 20, 1810) was an American soldier, most notable for his service during the American Revolutionary War.He is equally notable for his missteps in matters concerning the apprehension of the British spy, John André, that allowed the escape of Andre's partner in the conspiracy, General Benedict Arnold, to surrender and turn-over the fort at West Point to the British.