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3 de oct. de 2017 · While Continental Major General John Sullivan’s division was routing from its position and Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling’s division was being hard-pressed and beginning to fall back. Stephen’s division on the far right of the American line remained in place atop Birmingham Hill.
William Alexander (aka Lord Stirling) (1726 New York City – 15 January 1783), who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling, was an American major-general during the American Revolutionary War. ==Life== Alexander was an educated, ambitious and bright young man and was proficient in mathematics and astronomy.
30 de ene. de 1987 · Hardcover. $94.38 7 Used from $32.40. The biographical account of a man who served 18th-century American society as a prominent citizen in peacetime and as a soldier in the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War Stirling was appointed a colonel in the New Jersey Continental Line and from there ...
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A short film about William Alexander, Lord Stirling, the forgotten hero of the Battle of Brooklyn, the first battle of the American Revolution, the War for Independence. On a humid August morning in Brooklyn, New York, 1776, 20,000 British regulars and Hessian mercenaries bore down on George Washington’s recently formed American army of 12,000 men.
William Alexander, Lord Stirling (Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History, 1905) William Alexander, Lord Stirling (* 1726 in New York City; † 15. Januar 1783 in Albany) war ein schottisch-amerikanischer Generalmajor während des Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges auf Seiten der Dreizehn Kolonien. Leben
William Alexander was born on December 27, 1725 to James Alexander, the Attorney General of New Jersey and Maria Alexander. His father had the distinction of being the 6th Earl of Sterling. Throughout his life he claimed the title (7th) Earl of Sterling, or “Lord Sterling” as it was commonly expressed.
