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Ensign (/ˈɛnsən/; Late
Middle English, from Old
French enseigne (transl. mark, symbol, signal; flag, standard, pennant), from
Latin insignia (plural))...
- the
Royal Military College,
Sandhurst and on 21
April 1821,
purchased an
ensigncy in the 22nd
Regiment of Foot. He
exchanged from the half-pay of that regiment...
- Mary Jane Ormsby. He was
educated at Eton
College and
later purchased an
Ensigncy in the 53rd Foot. He
purchased a
Lieutenancy in 1839 and
exchanged into...
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educated at Eton and at the
court of the Duke of Brunswick. He
purchased an
ensigncy in the 40th Foot in 1790. Wellesley's
diplomatic career began in 1791 when...
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examinations in May 1852, and was
appointed at the age of
sixteen to an
ensigncy without purchase in the 2nd or Queen's foot. His
biographer Sir William...
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General Sir
George Beckwith, the
governor of Barbados, he
obtained an
ensigncy in the York
Light Infantry Volunteers in 1813. He was
promoted lieutenant...
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chapter of his history. A
small sum
given him as the pay of an
inland ensigncy, now
conferred on him, but antedated,
sufficed to
defray the
expenses of...
- Auchmuty, A loyalist,
during the
American War of
Independence he was
given an
ensigncy in the
loyal army in 1777, and in 1778 a
lieutenancy in the 45th Foot,...
- in 1783. In this
regiment young Frederick Philipse Robinson received an
ensigncy in
February 1777, and on 1
September 1778 he was
appointed to the 17th...
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younger Edwin was
educated at a
military school in Germany. He
obtained an
ensigncy in the 10th (the
North Lincolnshire)
Regiment of Foot, and went with them...
