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Roger Elliott (governor)
Major General Roger Elliott ( 1665 – 16 May 1714 ) was one of the earliest British Governor of Gibraltar, Governors of Gibraltar. A member of the Eliot family (South England), Eliot family, his son Granville Elliott became the first Count Elliott and his nephew George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, George Augustus Eliott also became a noted Governor and Great Siege of Gibraltar, defender of Gibraltar. Early life Roger Elliott was born, possibly in London but more probably in the English Tangier, English Colony of Tangier in Morocco, to George Elliott (surgeon), George Elliott ( 1636 – 1668, the Physician, Chirurgeon to the Tangier Garrison) and his wife Catherine (née Maxwell, 1638 – 1709). George Elliott was the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot (born c. 1614), Richard Eliot, the wayward second son of John Eliot (statesman), Sir John Eliot (1592–1632). Roger Elliott's father, George Elliott, died at Tangier in 1668, and his widowed mother remarried ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Tangier
English Tangier was the period in History of Morocco, Moroccan history in which the city of Tangier was occupied by Kingdom of England, England as part of its English overseas possessions, colonial empire from 1661 to 1684. Tangier had been under Portuguese Empire, Portuguese control before Charles II of England acquired the city as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese ''infante, infanta'' Catherine of Braganza, Catherine. The marriage treaty was an extensive renewal of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. It was opposed by Spain, then at war with Portugal, but clandestinely supported by France. The English garrisoned and fortified the city against hostile but disunited Moroccan forces. The exclave was expensive to defend and fortify and offered neither commercial nor military advantage to England. When Morocco was later united under the 'Alawi dynasty, Alaouites, the cost of maintaining the garrison against Moroccan attack greatly increased, and Parliamentary refusal to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |