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Edward Nicolls

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Royal Marines officer

Lived 1779 to 1865 · aged 86
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General Sir Edward Nicolls was a British Royal Marines officer and colonial administrator who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812.

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1855Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

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General Sir Edward Nicolls was a British Royal Marines officer and colonial administrator who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812. Known as "Fighting Nicolls", he had a distinguished military career, and according to his obituary in The Times, Nicolls fought "in no fewer than 107 actions, in various parts of the world" and had "his left leg broken and his right leg severely injured, was shot through the body and right arm, had received a severe sabre cut in the head, was bayoneted in the chest, and had lost the sight of an eye."

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Lived 1779 to 1865 · aged 86
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