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Alexander Mackenzie Fraser

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in 1807, invading Egypt on 16 March 1807 with 6,000 British troops. Mackenzie Fraser did first occupy Alexandria to secure the port as a base for Mediterranean operations and to prevent the French from making strategic use of it. Attempts to push inland, however, were not a success, with Fraser
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of 1809, dying at Hayes, Kent, from complications brought on by the illness he suffered there. In accordance with his wishes to be buried where he died he is buried at the church of St.Mary the Virgin in Hayes, Kent.
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in 1795, and served in India from 1796 to 1800. From 1803 to 1805 he was assigned to the Home Staff, temporary commanding one of the infantry brigades (Hanoverian) of the
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at Rosetta (modern Rashid) on 29 March and 21 April, with two battalions suffering very heavy casualties, particularly in the later
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are descended, on the female side, from the Honorable Sir Simon Fraser of Inverallochy, second son of Simon, eighth
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
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for British troops to leave Egypt was finally signed on 19 September 1807.
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Alexander Mackenzie Fraser at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Alexander Mackenzie (1758–1809), 9th Lord Fraser of Inverallochy
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in Portugal and Spain during 1808–1809, and was present at the
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which was intended to be sent to aid Sweden in 1808 during the
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contributions in Parliament by Alexander Mackenzie Fraser
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British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War
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Aberdeenshire
Hayes, Kent
Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom
British Army
Lieutenant General
American Revolutionary War
Napoleonic Wars
Lieutenant General
Castle Fraser
Scotland
Lord Lovat

Aberdeen University
commissioned
73rd Regiment of Foot
Great Siege of Gibraltar
American war of Independence
British Campaign in Flanders
Duke of York
Cape of Good Hope expedition
King's German Legion
Hanover Expedition
James Henry Craig
Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples
Alexandria expedition
engagements
ambush
Mohammed Ali

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