page_title: Granville Elliott
section_title: British military career
hierarchical_section_title: Granville Elliott / British military career
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context_page_description: Major-General Granville Elliott, 1st Count Elliott, was a British military officer who served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army. He fought at the Battle of Minden where he was wounded, dying of his injuries several weeks later.
context_section_description: Back in the UK, he remarried, on 3 September 1750, to Elizabeth Duckett (25 June 1724 - October 1804) at St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, London. However, he soon returned to the service of the States General of the Netherlands, and was appointed Major-General of the Scotch Brigade. The first child of his second marriage was born in the Netherlands although later children would be born at their home in Kew.
  On 21 April 1758, Elliott was made Major-General in the British Army, and appointed Colonel of the 61st Regiment of Foot - The Glorious Glosters. That summer, he was a Staff Officer on the army expedition to St Malo, and, from 5 July 1758 to 31 August 1758, he received a short-term commission as Colonel and Lieutenant-General in the Dutch Army. The Seven Years' War had arrived, and Elliott's knowledge of continental warfare was significant. In early 1759, he returned to continental Europe, as part of a massive British army deployment. At the Battle of Minden, on 1 August 1759, he commanded the Cavalry Regiment under John Manners, Marquess of Granby. Manners was himself second in command to Sir George Sackville, who was later cashiered for his inaction at the battle. Despite this chain of command, Elliott saw significant action in battle, and was seriously wounded. He retired to convalesce at army headquarters in Rodheim an der Bieber, Gießen, Hesse, Germany, but died there 9 weeks later on 10 October 1759 from the wounds incurred. He was buried with military honours in the local 13th century church at Krofdorf on 12 October; Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick attended the funeral. A brass commemorative plaque was erected during the 20th century by his British descendants in the church.
  Light Cavalry was introduced into the British Army as a direct result of advice from General Granville Elliott.
caption: To commemorate Granville Elliott in the Church of Rodheim (Germany)
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