John Campbell (2nd duke of Argyll)

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Feld Marshal John Campbell (October 10th 1678, Petersham - October 4th 1743), 2nd Duke of Argyll and count then 1st Duke of Greenwich, was an aristocrat and a Scottish soldier . Its titles are extremely high in the order of precedence of Scottish peerage.

Born with Petersham, in the Surrey, of Archibald Campbell, 1 {{er}} duke of Argyll and Elizabeth Tollemache, girl of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd baronnet, it succeeds his/her father like duke of Argyll and chief of the Campbell Clan in 1703. In 1705, for its support for the Act of Union, it is created baron of Chatham and count de Greenwich. It fights during the war of succession of Spain under the orders of the general-in-chief of the British army, the Duc of Marlborough, and takes part in the battles of Audenarde and Malplaquet.

In 1710, it is named knight of the Order of the Garter and, in 1711, it is named commander-in-chief of the British forces in Spain by the Tory ministry of Lord Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke. As from 1713, however, the relations between Argyll and the Cabinet worsen, and it joined the rows of the opposition Whig by making several speeches against the Government to the House of Lords. In July 1714, at the time of the last disease of the queen Anne, the unexpected presence of Argyll and the duke of Somerset to the Privé council prevents Bolingbroke from taking the full powerss with the fall of the ministry Harley, and thus perhaps supports the accession with the throne of the candidate hanovrien. During " the Fifteen" (1715), Argyll leads the governmental army to Sheriffmuir and demolishes the Jacobites, carried out by the Count de Mar. In 1719, it is rewarded by the gift for the duchy for Greenwich. It is promoted brigadier (feld marshal) in 1736. In 1742, one year before its death, it is named commander-in-chief of the British army.

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