biography
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Hamilton, James Hamilton, 1st Duke of
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| (1606–49)
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| biography:
| Scottish Royalist commander during the English Civil War. He fought during the Thirty Years' War, leading an army in support of Gustavus Adolphus (1631–2), and later played a conspicuous part in the contest between Charles I and the Covenanters. Created duke in 1643, he led a Scottish army into England (1643), but was defeated by Cromwell at Preston, and beheaded. |
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