About Alexander Duroure
Lived 1692 – 1765 (aged 72–73). Alexander Duroure was a military leader.
Lieutenant-General Alexander Duroure ( – 1 February 1765) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot.
He was of Huguenot extraction, the son of Francis Du Roure, a French immigrant who had served in Ireland, and his wife Catherine Rieutort and was the brother of Colonel Scipio Duroure.
Duroure was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 10th Regiment of Foot in 1715. He took part in the first attack on Cartagena de Indias in March 1740 during the War of Jenkins' Ear and was deployed with a contingent of 500 men to assist James Oglethorpe in securing the Carolinas in 1742. He had married Louisa Bruchell but had no children.
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Who was Alexander Duroure?
British Army general
When was Alexander Duroure born?
Alexander Duroure was born in 1692 in London.
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Alexander Duroure died on 1 February 1765 in Toulouse.
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Alexander Duroure was a military leader.
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