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Cornet is a
military rank
formerly used by the
armed forces of some countries. A
cornet or "cornet of horse" was in the 17th and 18th
centuries a term...
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Scots Fusilier Guards on 1 July 1842. On 7
April 1843, he
purchased a
cornetcy and sub-lieutenancy in the
Grenadier Guards. He
purchased a lieutenancy...
- in 1787,
Dalhousie joined the
British Army in July 1788 by
purchasing a
cornetcy in the 3rd Dragoons, and was
later appointed to the
captaincy of an independent...
- of
purchased land,
settled in the area. At the time,
Knysna was a
field cornetcy of
Plettenberg Bay
within the
Magisterial Division of George. In 1858,...
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William Wilberforce.[citation needed] On 19
March 1811, he
purchased a
cornetcy in the 15th Hussars.
Promoted lieutenant on 3
October 1811, he
served with...
- for his
younger son. On 27
February 1830, Pitt (as he now was)
bought a
cornetcy in the
Royal Horse Guards vacated by
Viscount Fordwich. On 6 July 1832...
- with "Prinnie", the
Prince Regent,
later King
George IV, he was
offered a
cornetcy in the 23rd Dragoons,
which he
accepted and
became and aide-de-camp to...
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educated at Eton and
Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1870 he
purchased a
Cornetcy in the
Royal Horse Guards. He was
promoted lieutenant in 1871 and captain...
- the
Battle of Princeton. His
military service began with
purchase of a
cornetcy in 1st
Dragoon Guards (1
August 1752). He
served in the
Seven Years' War...
- John
Horne Tooke and
friend of Lord
Byron at Harrow,
Wildman purchased a
cornetcy in the 7th
Light Dragoons in 1808 and
later the same year he was promoted...
