Lieutenant-General Charles Sybourg (died 25 January 1733) was a British Army officer.
Biography
Sybourg was born Charles de Sibourg, a gentleman of French extraction and a Protestant,
[ and was said to have been an illegitimate son of Meinhardt, Duke of Schomberg.][ He entered the English army soon after the Revolution of 1688, and proved a brave and meritorious officer.][ On 1 May 1694 he was promoted to the rank of major in Schomberg's 8th Horse (later ]7th Dragoon Guards
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),[ and on 1 March 1703 was appointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment, from which time he discontinued the '' de'' in his name, which was afterwards spelt Sybourg.][ He was granted the brevet rank as a colonel of Horse on 1 January 1704. He commanded the 8th Horse at the battles of ]Schellenberg
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, Blenheim and Ramillies,[ and was promoted to the rank of brigader-general on 1 January 1707. In 1708 he commanded a brigade of cuirassiers at the ]battle of Oudenarde
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,[ and he was also present at Malplaquet the following year. On 1 January 1710 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and he succeeded the Earl of Orrery in the colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot on 8 December. He commanded a brigade under the Duke of Marlborough during the campaign of 1711.][ Following the decease of the Marquess of Harwich, on 12 October 1713 he obtained the colonelcy of the 8th Horse, which he retained until 1720.][ In April 1725 he was made governor of Fort William in Scotland,]Richard Cannon
Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army.
Career
On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803.
Under a Horse Guards order ...
, ''Historical Record of the Seventh, or Princess Royal's Regiment of Dragoon Guards'' (1839
p. 82
Westminster Abbey
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.[Charles Dalton, ''English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661–1714'', volume IV (1898]
p. 12
References
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1733 deaths
7th Dragoon Guards officers
British Army generals
British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
Burials at Westminster Abbey
Governors of Nevis