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Alexander Jardine (British Army officer)

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598:. This is Jardine's account of Morocco, with other letters written during visits to France and Spain, from Portugal in 1779, and from Jersey in 1787. He mentions as friends Sarah Proby (c.1741–1785, née Pownall) who was the wife of Charles Proby R.N., commissioner of Chatham Dockyard, and a Mrs. Pilcher; one of the two was his correspondent Mrs. P. Letters from Morocco were to an army officer, who has been tentatively identified as 1249: 207:
exchange of essays and ideas between the members, would give "an acquaintance to a fixed degree, with Geometry, Algebra, Mechanics, Fortification, Natural Philosophy, History, Law and Politics..."; he proposed that members become familiar with the ideas of a broad cross-section of authors and thinkers:
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In 1772 Jardine returned from Gibraltar to Woolwich where he wrote to fellow officer Captain Edward Williams, proposing the formation of a Military Society at Woolwich, noting that "We have already in this country all kinds of Societies except a military one". This voluntary organisation, though the
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For four years from 1776, Jardine acted as a British intelligence agent in Spain. He was transferred to one of the Royal Artillery's invalid companies, on 1 November 1776. He became captain in 1777, brevet-major in 1783, and brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1793. On his return to England around 1780 he
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His proposal was accepted, and supported by others. It came into existence that year, with a set of rules established, and a library to be formed. Although the Society only lasted until 1775, its success inspired, in 1839, the formation of an Institution that later became the
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While stationed at Gibraltar Jardine collected military observations, and presented them in 1772 to the Regimental Society, Woolwich, which he helped to establish in 1772–5. The papers went to the
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The second work was with the publisher James Ridgway in 1792, but was not actually published. Antonio Borghese was a French composer. Dybikowski concludes, of Jardine's contribution to the
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for its defence. His subsequent career was as second lieutenant on 11 September 1762, first lieutenant on 28 May 1766, and captain-lieutenant on 28 April 1773.
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Jardine supported military reforms, such as Conway had carried out in Jersey. His opinions were tinged with republicanism and accepting
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Jardine married a Spanish woman, Juana. They had a family of at least five children. Their daughter Charlotte married
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Cultivating Woman: Men’s Pursuit of Intellectual Equality in the Late British Enlightenment
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endured financial hardship, and appealed to highly placed friends. In 1787 he was in
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He was an illegitimate son of Sir Alexander Jardine, 4th Baronet. He entered the
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Hampson, Norman; Crook, Malcolm; Doyle, William; Forrest, Alan I. (2004).
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in 1793, and they corresponded, but without finding much common ground.
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broached matters such as the positive effects of female influence, and
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Both works reflect the views of Jardine as a reformer, and friend of
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Enlightenment and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Norman Hampson
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution
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Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women
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Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal &c.
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Portugal
United Kingdom
Army
Brevet
Seven Years' War
Alexander Jardine, 4th Baronet
Royal Artillery
matross
Forbes Macbean
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Seven Years' War
Raid on Rochefort
Invasion of Martinique (1759)
Invasion of Guadeloupe (1759)
Gibraltar
Jersey
Henry Seymour Conway
Galicia
Euclid
Emerson
Herodotus
M'Laurin
Folard
Hume
Thucydides
Newton
Saxe
Xenophon
Robins
Monticueuli

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