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Alexander Murray (ca. 1715 – 1762) was a British army officer who served in
Father Le Loutre's War
Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and Nova Scotia. On one side of the conflict, the Briti ...
and the
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the ...
in
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
. He was the cousin of
James Murray.
[Johnston, G. Harvey, ''The Heraldry of the Murrays'', W. & A. K. Johnston Ltd. Edinburgh and London, 1910 - in which ‘Pedigree VII, The Murrays of Falahill’ shows Alexander as 5th cousin 2R of Alexander (8th Lord Elibank), eldest brother of James.]
See also
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Military history of Nova Scotia
Links
Portrait of Murray as a child
References
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* "The Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray 1742–1759". Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment: regimental annual 1938: Volumes 1921–1926; pp. 181–220.
* "Letters of Colonel Alexander Murray," Sherwood Foresters Regimental Annual, 1926 (London, 1927), 181–220; 1927 (London, 1928), 240–68.
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Military history of Acadia
Military history of Nova Scotia
Military history of Canada
1710s births
1762 deaths
British Army generals
British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745
British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)