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See also:SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:AUCHMUTY (1756-1822)
, See also:British See also:general, was See also:born at New See also:York in 1756, and served as a loyalist in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence, being given an ensigncy in the royal See also:army in 1777, and in 1778 a lieutenancy in the 45th See also:Foot, without See also:purchase
.
When his See also:regiment returned to See also:England after the war, having neither private means nor See also:influence, he exchanged into the 52nd, in See also:order to proceed to See also:India
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He took See also:part in the last war against Hyder See also:Ali ; he was given a See also:staff See also:appointment by See also:Lord See also:Cornwallis in 1790, served in the operations against Tippoo See also:Sahib,and continued in various staff appointments up to 1797, when he returned to England a See also:brevet lieut.-See also:colonel
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In' 1Soo he was made lieut.-colonel and brevet colonel; and in the following See also:year, as See also:adjutant-general to See also:Sir See also:David See also:Baird in See also:Egypt, took a distinguished See also:share in the See also:
He died suddenly on the 11th of August 1822
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AUCHTERARDER (Gaelic, " upper high See also:land "), a See also:police
See also:burgh of See also:Perthshire, See also:Scotland, 13,3-, m
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S.W. of See also:Perth by the
Caledonian railway
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Pop
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(1901) 2276
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It is situated on
See also:Ruthven See also:Water, a right-See also:hand tributary of the See also:Earn
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The chief manufactures are those of tartans and other woollens, and of agricultural implements
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At the beginning of the 13th See also:century it obtained a See also:charter from the See also:earl of Strathearn, afterwards became a royal burgh for a See also:period, and was represented in the Scottish parliament
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Its See also:castle, now ruinous, was built as a See also:hunting-See also:lodge for See also:Malcolm Canmore, but of the See also:abbey which it possessed as See also:early as the reign of See also:
It was in connexion with this See also:parish that the ecclesiastical dispute arose which led to the disruption in the Church of Scotland in 1843
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The See also:estate of Kincardine, 1 m. See also:south, gives the See also:title of earl of Kincardine to the See also:duke of See also:Montrose
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The old castle, now in ruins, was dismantled in 1645 by the See also:marquis of See also:Argyll in See also:retaliation for the destruction
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