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78 relations: Aide-de-camp, Aleister Crowley, Ambala, Astor House Hotel (Shanghai), August von Mackensen, Battle of Atbara, Battle of Majuba Hill, Battle of Omdurman, Battle of Paardeberg, Battle of Toski, Belgaum district, Bernard Montgomery, Black Isle, Bloemfontein, Brigadier general, British Army, Burgher people, Camp Coffee, Cape Town, Charles George Gordon, Chennai, Claude Auchinleck, Colour sergeant, Court-martial, Cradlehall, Croft (land), Crofting, David Gooderson, Dean Cemetery, Dervish, Dingwall, Distinguished Service Order, Edinburgh, Egypt, Evelyn Wood (British Army officer), Field marshal, First Boer War, Fort George, Highland, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Gordon Highlanders, Hector the Hero, Hector Waller, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Highland Brigade (United Kingdom), Homosexuality, Inverness, Jake Arnott, James Scott Skinner, Joseph West Ridgeway, Mahdist War, ..., Major general, Major-general (United Kingdom), Manchuria, Modder River, Nile Expedition, Omdurman, Order of the Bath, Paris, Piet Joubert, Pretoria, Queen Victoria, Robert W. Service, Ross-shire, Scottish Gaelic, Second Anglo-Afghan War, Second Boer War, Siege of Kimberley, Sirhind-Fategarh, Sri Lanka, Subaltern, Sudan, Tokar, Sudan, Victoria Cross, Wallace Williamson, Whitebridge, Scotland, William Birnie Rhind, World War I, 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot. Expand index (28 more) »
Aide-de-camp
An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally helper in the military camp) is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, a member of a royal family, or a head of state.
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.
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Ambala
Ambala, is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border with the Indian state of Punjab and in proximity to both states capital Chandigarh.
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Astor House Hotel (Shanghai)
The Astor House Hotel (礼查饭店), known as the Pujiang Hotel (浦江饭店) in Chinese since 1959, has been described as once "one of the famous hotels of the world".
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August von Mackensen
Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen (6 December 1849 – 8 November 1945), born August Mackensen, was a German field marshal.
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Battle of Atbara
The Battle of Atbara took place during the Second Sudan War.
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Battle of Majuba Hill
The Battle of Majuba Hill (near Volksrust, South Africa) on 27 February 1881 was the final and decisive battle of the First Boer War.
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Battle of Omdurman
At the Battle of Omdurman (2 September 1898), an army commanded by the British General Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad.
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Battle of Paardeberg
The Battle of Paardeberg or Perdeberg ("Horse Mountain") was a major battle during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
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Battle of Toski
The battle of Toski (Tushkah) took place on August 3, 1889 in Egypt between the Anglo-Egyptian forces and the Mahdist Sudanese.
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Belgaum district
Belgaum is a district in the state of Karnataka, India.
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Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
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Black Isle
The Black Isle (an t-Eilean Dubh) is a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish Highlands.
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Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
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Brigadier general
Brigadier general (Brig. Gen.) is a senior rank in the armed forces.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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Burgher people
Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British and other European men who settled in Sri Lanka and developed relationships with native Sri Lankan women.
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Camp Coffee
Camp Coffee is a concentrated coffee-flavoured syrup, which was first produced in 1876 by Paterson & Sons Ltd., in a plant on Charlotte Street, Glasgow.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Charles George Gordon
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator.
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Chennai
Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Claude Auchinleck
Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981) was a British Army commander during the Second World War.
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Colour sergeant
Colour sergeant (CSgt or C/Sgt) is a rank of non-commissioned officer found in several militaries.
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Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
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Cradlehall
Cradlehall is a residential area in the east of Inverness, Scotland.
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Croft (land)
A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
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Crofting
Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production particular to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man.
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David Gooderson
David Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an English actor who has appeared in several television roles.
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Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland.
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Dervish
A dervish or darvesh (from درویش, Darvīsh) is someone guiding a Sufi Muslim ascetic down a path or "tariqah", known for their extreme poverty and austerity.
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Dingwall
Dingwall (Dingwal, Inbhir Pheofharain) is a town and a royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland.
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Distinguished Service Order
The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Egypt
Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.
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Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)
Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, (9 February 1838 – 2 December 1919) was a British Army officer.
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Field marshal
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is a very senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks.
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First Boer War
The First Boer War (Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally "First Freedom War"), also known as the First Anglo-Boer War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was a war fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and the South African Republic (also known as Transvaal Republic; not to be confused with the modern-day Republic of South Africa).
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Fort George, Highland
Fort George (Gaelic: Dùn Deòrsa or An Gearastan, the latter meaning literally "the garrison"), is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.
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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British soldier who was one of the most successful commanders of the 19th century.
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Gordon Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed for 113 years, from 1881 until 1994, when it was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) to form the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons).
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Hector the Hero
"Hector the Hero" is a classic lament penned by Scottish composer and fiddler James Scott Skinner in 1903.
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Hector Waller
Hector Macdonald Laws (Hec) Waller, DSO and Bar (4 April 1900 – 1 March 1942) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.
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Highland Brigade (United Kingdom)
The Highland Brigade is a historical unit of the British Army, which has been formed and reformed a number of times.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Inverness
Inverness (from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness", Inerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands.
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Jake Arnott
Jake Arnott (born 11 March 1961) is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm and six other novels.
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James Scott Skinner
James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer.
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Joseph West Ridgeway
Colonel Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, (16 May 1844 – 16 April 1930) was a British civil servant and colonial governor.
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Mahdist War
The Mahdist War (الثورة المهدية ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) was a British colonial war of the late 19th century which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.
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Major general
Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.
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Major-general (United Kingdom)
Major general (Maj Gen), is a "two-star" rank in the British Army and Royal Marines.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a name first used in the 17th century by Chinese people to refer to a large geographic region in Northeast Asia.
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Modder River
The Modder River is a river in South Africa.
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Nile Expedition
The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–85), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan.
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Omdurman
Omdurman (standard أم درمان Umm Durmān) is the second largest city in Sudan and Khartoum State, lying on the western banks of the River Nile, opposite the capital, Khartoum.
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Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Piet Joubert
Petrus Jacobus Joubert (20 January 1831 or 1834 – 28 March 1900), better known as Piet Joubert, was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900.
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Pretoria
Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Robert W. Service
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon".
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Ross-shire
Ross-shire (Siorrachd Rois) is a historic county in the Scottish Highlands.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic (Gàidhlig) or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Second Anglo-Afghan War
The Second Anglo-Afghan War (د افغان-انګرېز دويمه جګړه) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
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Siege of Kimberley
The Siege of Kimberley took place during the Second Boer War at Kimberley, Cape Colony (present-day South Africa), when Boer forces from the Orange Free State and the Transvaal besieged the diamond mining town.
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Sirhind-Fategarh
Sirhind-Fatehgarh (ਸਰਹਿੰਦ-ਫ਼ਤਿਹਗੜ੍ਹ) is a city and a municipal council in Fatehgarh Sahib district in the Indian state of Punjab.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Subaltern
A subaltern is a primarily British military term for a junior officer.
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Sudan
The Sudan or Sudan (السودان as-Sūdān) also known as North Sudan since South Sudan's independence and officially the Republic of the Sudan (جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Tokar, Sudan
Tokar (طوكر), also transliterated Tawkar, is a town of 40,000 people near the Red Sea in northeastern Sudan.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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Wallace Williamson
Rev Dr Andrew Wallace Williamson, KCVO, DD (29 December 1856 – 10 July 1926) was a Church of Scotland minister who was Dean of the Thistle.
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Whitebridge, Scotland
Whitebridge (An Drochaid Bhàn) is a small village on the southwest side of Loch Ness in northern Scotland.
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William Birnie Rhind
William Birnie Rhind RSA (1853–1933) was a Scottish sculptor.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
The 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment, raised in 1794.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_MacDonald
