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Scottish Naval and Military Academy

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Other subjects taught were: Military Engineering: Fortifications, Military Drawing and Surveying; Drawing: Landscape and Perspective; Higher Mathematics; Navigation; Chemistry; Military Antiquities; Latin and Greek; Elementary Arithmetic and Book Keeping, Algebra and Geometry; Geography; Natural
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Philosophy and Navigation; History; Elocution; French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese; Fencing, Gymnastics and Military Exercises with the Firelock and Broadsword.
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Captain John Orr (1790-1879) was the superintendent of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy for thirty-three years from 1831, having fought with the
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was a school which opened on 8 November 1825. It catered for boys intending to have a career with the Army, Navy or the
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was both a pupil and a master. He is famous for his dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms called
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In 1829 the Academy moved into the three-storey building on
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Index

Edinburgh
East India Company
Black Watch
Peninsular War
Battle of Waterloo
Lothian Road
Castle Terrace
James R. Ballantyne
Sanskrit College in Benares
Varanasi
Persian
Hindoostanee
Arabic
Sir Henry Yule
Hobson-Jobson
William Swan
John Cook
Victoria Cross
Joseph Anderson Panton
W. J. Macquorn Rankine
John McDouall Stuart
Sir Henry Yule


"Captain John Orr 1790 – 1879"
"OS1/11/104/25"
"Curious Edinburgh:Scottish Naval and Military Academy"
"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/30291

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