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单词 Sir William Rowan
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Sir William Rowan

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William Rowan

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The Battle of Nivelle where the 52nd Light Infantry played an important part in the victory.
Waterloo - General Hill invites the last survivors of the French Imperial Guard to surrender.
The burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal

Field Marshal Sir William Shearman Rowan, GCB (18 June 1789 – 26 September 1879) was a British Army officer. He served in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against the Imperial Guard when he was wounded. He later assisted Colborne in Colborne's new role as Acting Governor General of British North America during the rebellions by the Patriote movement in 1837. Rowan returned to Canada as Commander-in-Chief, North America in which role he made an important conciliatory speech in response to the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal by an angry mob in April 1849.

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