Cadogan, William, 1st Earl
- Cadogan, William, 1st Earl
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born 1672, Liscarton, County Meath, Ire.
died July 17, 1726, Kensington, near London, Eng.
British soldier.
He served as a trusted colleague with the duke of
Marlborough in the War of the
Spanish Succession. Later he became involved in intrigues to secure the succession for the Hanoverian
George I (1714). He crushed a
Jacobite rebellion in 1716, was granted an earldom in 1718, and was promoted to commander in chief in 1722.
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