William Howe, fifth viscount Howe

(1729-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814 NRA: Howe William (1729-1814) 5th Viscount Howe General DNB: Howe, William, fifth Viscount Howe (1729-1814), army officer LBT ID: LdHowe5 VIAF ID: 60021303 LOC ID: n50029814	B/BAP: 1729-08-10 DIED: 1814-07-12
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British general in the American War of Independence; after succeeding Gage as commander-in-chief (1775) he defeated Washington at the Battle of Brandywine and resigned in 1778.
REFERENCES TO William Howe, fifth viscount Howe: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Verse 1: p. 205a Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1808-09 Verse 1: p. 205a