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Sir Abraham Roberts (father) Signature. Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, VD, PC, FRSGS (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family ...
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. Earl Roberts, of Kandahar in Afghanistan and Pretoria in the Transvaal Colony and of the City of Waterford, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1901 for Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts. He had already been created Baron Roberts, of Kandahar in Afghanistan ...
South African War. Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (born Sept. 30, 1832, Cawnpore, India—died Nov. 14, 1914, Saint-Omer, Fr.) was a British field marshal, an outstanding combat leader in the Second Afghan War (1878–80) and the South African War (1899–1902), and the last commander in chief of the British Army (1901–04; office ...
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Frederick "Bobs" Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (30 September 1832-14 November 1914) was a British Army Field Marshal who served as Commander-in-Chief, India from 1885 to 1893; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland from 1895 to 1900; Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa in 1900; and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1900 to 1904. He fought in the Sepoy Rebellion, the Second Anglo-Afghan ...
Popularly known as ‘Bobs’, Roberts was kindly, unassuming and courteous. His small stature and elderly appearance - he was 68 when he left South Africa in 1900 - probably increased the veneration he received both from the public and from soldiers. Likewise, public sympathy for him grew after the death of his only son, Frederick, in action ...
1832-1914. Earl Roberts of Kandahar (Wikipedia) 1st Earl Roberts by John Singer Sargent ( wikipedia) Field Marshal Roberts was born in Cawnpore, India and trained for the military from a young age. He fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Sepoy Mutiny) and served in Afghanistan and Abyssinia, rising in rank to General in 1891.
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Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Bt VC KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE KStJ PC (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was one of the most distinguished commanders of the British Empire . Roberts was Indian born, in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) Uttar Pradesh. [1] The son of a general from County Waterford in Ireland, he regarded ...
