Phineas Bowles (died 1722) was an English army major-general .
6-425: Phineas Bowles may refer to: Phineas Bowles (died 1722) , British Army Major-General His son Phineas Bowles (1690–1749) , British Army Lieutenant-General, MP for Bewdley 1735–41 [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-683: The 2nd Queen's, then just arrived in Holland from Ireland . In July 1705 he succeeded Colonel Caulfield in command of a regiment of foot in Ireland, with which he went to Spain and served at the Siege of Barcelona . According to the memoranda of General Erie, Bowles's was one of the regiments broken at the bloody battle of Almanza . It appears to have been reorganised in England, as Narcissus Luttrell mentions Bowles's arrival in England on parole, and afterwards that he
18-413: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phineas_Bowles&oldid=400927263 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Phineas Bowles (died 1722) The subject's father
24-615: The rolls, and its colonel remained unemployed until 1715, when, as a brigadier-general , he was commissioned to raise a corps of dragoons, of six troops, in Berkshire , Hampshire , and Buckinghamshire , to rendezvous at Reading . This corps became the 12th Royal Lancers . In 1719 Bowles was transferred to the colonelcy of a Regiment of Dragoons . Brigadier General Bowles was replaced in 1721 at Dublin Castle by Philip Honywood, Esq. He died in 1722. His cousin's son Phineas Bowles (1690–1749)
30-602: Was Valentine, his uncle was Colonel John Seymour, Governor of Maryland , and a brother named Tobias, a London merchant, was nominated to succeed his uncle as Royal Governor of Maryland. Bowles served in the Admiralty as a secretary from 6 March 1689 until 15 January 1690. Bowles is first mentioned in the Military Entry Books in January 1692, when he was appointed captain-lieutenant in the regiment of Colonel W. Selwyn, later
36-456: Was at Portsmouth with his regiment, awaiting embarkation with some troops supposed to be destined for Newfoundland . Instead, he again went with his Regiment to Spain, where it was distinguished at the battle of Saragossa in 1710, and was one of the regiments surrounded in the mountains of Castile , and made prisoners, in December of the same year. After this Bowles's regiment disappeared from
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