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Noun Named Entity
Categories: English military personnel, Younger sons of viscounts, British MPs 1761–68, 58th Regiment of Foot officers, British Army generals
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe  William Howe  Gen. William Howe  General Howe  General Sir William Howe
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB PC, 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. Wikipedia
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB PC, 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. Wikipedia
British general during American Revolutionary War Wikipedia Disambiguation
British General in the American War of Independence Wikidata
IS A
homo
ALLEGIANCE
Great Britain
AWARD RECEIVED
Order of the Bath
COMMANDER OF (DEPRECATED)
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
CONFLICT
American Revolution
Seven Years' War
War of the Austrian Succession
French Revolutionary Wars
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Great Britain
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
EDUCATED AT
Eton College
FAMILY NAME
Howe
FATHER
Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe
GIVEN NAME
William
HONORIFIC PREFIX
The Right Honourable
HONORIFIC SUFFIX
Order of the Bath
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF POLITICAL PARTY
Whig
MILITARY BRANCH
British Army
MILITARY RANK
lieutenant general
MOTHER
Charlotte Howe, Viscountess Howe
NOBLE TITLE
viscount
OCCUPATION
serviceman
military officer
politician
PLACE OF BIRTH
London
PLACE OF BURIAL
Twickenham
PLACE OF DEATH
Plymouth
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
BabelNet
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William Howe
Wikipedia
EN
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Wikidata
EN
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Wikipedia Redirections
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General Howe, General Sir William Howe, General William Howe, Howe, William, 5th Viscount Howe, Sir William Howe, William, 5th Viscount Howe Howe
Wikidata Alias
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Gen. William Howe

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