George Augustus Eliott

George Augustus Elliott, Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), a gallant Scottish general of the British Army, the defender of Gibraltar, son of Sir Gilbert Eliott, born at Stobs, in Roxburghshire. He saw service first in the war of the Austrian Succession, fighting at Dettingen and Fontenoy. As a colonel he fought with English troops in alliance with Frederick the Great against Austria. For his heroic defence of Gibraltar (1779-1783) against the combined forces of France and Spain he was raised to the peerage as Baron of Gibraltar.

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