For other people with the same name, see John Folliott.
Lieutenant-General John Folliot or Folliott (died 4 November 1748) was an officer of the British Army.
BiographyEdit
Folliot joined the Army as an ensign in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 March 1704,[1][2] and served at the defence of Gibraltar during the winter of 1704–1705.[3] He "received two dangerous wounds, and was eight months under the surgeon's hands". On his way home he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in France, where he was "barbarously used". After three months he was released on parole due to his injuries, but after fifteen months back in England still had not recovered, and his petition to Prince George of Denmark for the Queen's bounty was referred to the Secretary at War on 22 April 1706.[4] Folliot was promoted to lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards on 24 June 1706,[5] then served as first adjutant of the regiment from 25 March 1710[6] until he was made captain-lieutenant of the colonel's company, with rank as a lieutenant-colonel of Foot, on 12 November 1713.[7] He served again as first adjutant between July 1715 and February 1721,[3] being promoted to captain on 23 November 1716, second major on 8 July 1721 and first major on 3 August 1733.[8] On 30 October 1734 he was made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment,[1] then on 1 April 1743 lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards.[8] He commanded the 1st Foot Guards in several campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession,[3] and during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 was placed in command of the military in London.[9]
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