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Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven ( c. 1580 – 4 April 1661) was a Scottish military officer and peer. Born illegitimate and raised as a foster child, he subsequently advanced to the rank of field marshal in Swedish Army, and in Scotland became Lord General in command of the Army of the Covenanters, a privy councillor, captain of ...
Alexander Leslie, 1º conte di Leven (1580 circa – 4 aprile 1661), è stato un generale scozzese al servizio degli olandesi e poi della Svezia dal 1605 fino al 1638, quando fu nominato feldmaresciallo dell'esercito svedese.
The Honourable Major General Alexander Leslie (1731 – 27 December 1794) was a major general in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was the commander of the British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights. He replaced Cornwallis as commander in the South in 1782.
31 mar 2024 · Alexander Leslie, 1st earl of Leven was the commander of the Scottish army that from 1644 to 1646 fought on the side of Parliament in the English Civil Wars between Parliament and King Charles I. Leslie joined the Swedish army in 1605 and served brilliantly in the Thirty Years’ War in central.
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31 mar 2024 · IT was this week 363 years ago that General Sir Alexander Leslie, the 1st Earl of Leven, died after a long and adventurous life. He was also Lord Balgonie, and it was at Balgonie Castle in Fife that he died in his bed on April 4, 1661, at the age of 80 or 81.
- Hamish Macpherson
Rappresentante del parlamento scozzese al trattato di Ripon, egli seppe conciliare gl'interessi scozzesi con un sincero lealismo verso il re, che nel 1641 lo creò conte di Leven, lord Balgonie e consigliere privato.
10 lug 2020 · Alexander Leslie served as an officer in the British Army during the American Revolution. He commanded the southern theater after Charles Lord Cornwallis ' surrender at Yorktown and directed the British evacuations of Savannah, Georiga and Charleston, South Carolina in 1782 under orders from Sir Guy Carleton .
