Peregrine Lascelles
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Lieutenant-General Peregrine Lascelles, 1 June 1685 to 26 March 1772, was a British military officer from Yorkshire.
Memorial to Peregrine Lascelles, St Mary's Church, Whitby
Almanara, July 1710, Lascelles' first major battle
Remains of Fort Beausejour, site of the Battle of Fort Beauséjour in 1755
Battle of Prestonpans
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The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
The remains of the Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway
Sir John Cope was cleared by the subsequent court-martial, but Prestonpans ended his career.
Colonel Gardiner's Monument; his death turned him into a Nonconformist martyr