Sir Alured Clarke (c. 1745 – 16 September 1832) was an officer of the British army, lieutenant governor of the colonial Province of Quebec, and civil administrator of Lower Canada. Following his service in Canada, Clarke served variously as commander-in-chief of the British forces in Madras and then Bengal. In September 1797 he was appointed Governor-General of India, a position he retained only briefly, resigning in 1798 to become from 1798 – 1801 the overall commander-in-chief of the British forces in India. In 1830 he attained the rank of Field-Marshall. The designation C: (sometimes C: ) is the drive letter that refers to the main partition (or portion of an hard drive) on an MS-DOS or Windows personal computer. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Province of Quebec (COLONIAL PERIOD, 1763-1791) Great Britain acquired Canada by the Treaty of Paris (1763) when King Louis XV of France and his advisors chose to keep the territory of Guadeloupe for its valuable sugar crops instead of New France, which was viewed as a vast, frozen wasteland... Lower Canada was a British colony in North America, at the downstream end of the Saint Lawrence River in the southern portion of the modern-day province of Quebec. ... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ... Madras refers to: the Indian city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras, the former Indian state, now known as Tamil Nadu a former province of British India, with its capital at the Indian city of Madras (now Chennai): see Madras Presidency a type of fabric which first originated there. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Governor-General of India (or Governor-General and Viceroy of India) was the head of the British administration in India. ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1830 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ...

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• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (5 October 1751 - 14 February 1834) was a British politician who served as Governor-General of India from 1793 to 1797. ... The Governor-General of India (or Governor-General and Viceroy of India) was the head of the British administration in India. ... Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (20 June 1760 - 26 September 1842), was the eldest son of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. ...