Elihu Yale (captain)
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Elihu Yale was an American military commanding officer, and one of the first manufacturers of bayonets in Connecticut. He served during the American War of Independence, and later became the grandfath
Continental army at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Capt. Elihu Yale was a member of its 15th Regiment, during the American War of Independence
A Liberty Party publication, inciting to vote for the Liberty ticket, 1844
Elihu Yale
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Elihu Yale was a British colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became
Elihu Yale (captain)
…Cambridge University, England, who received an honorary degree from Yale in 1724. This was the David Yale initially considered to inherit the fortune of Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale College, but the man's whole estate, made from the diamond mines of Golconda, India, went to the British branch instead, and was…
Portrait by Enoch Seeman, 1717
Seaview of Fort St. George, the East India Company's headquarters in Madras, 1700s
The Government House at Fort St. George, seat of the Madras Presidency, where Yale would spend 29 years of his career
Warships attacking Fort St. George, Madras, along the Coromandel Coast. c. 1731 by Beorbe Lambert and Samuel Scott