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List of British general officers killed in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

January 01, 1970

This is a list of general officers of the British Armed Forces who were killed or died while on active service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This comprises the period of 1793–1815, and includes British general officers who were serving in the British Army or attached to the allied Portuguese Army. Officers of the rank of colonel are included if they were acting in the position of a general officer, that being a brigade or larger, at the time of their death, despite them not themselves being general officers. Officers are also included if they had recently left a command at the time of their death, and their active service was the cause of it.

Background edit

The death and injury rate of senior officers fighting in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was unusually high. General officers of the period regularly demonstrated their courage and served to the forefront in battles, placing themselves in positions of high jeopardy. Sanitary and living conditions on military campaigns in the period were also poor, leading to a number of general officers succumbing to illness and disease while on service.[1]

The historian Rory Muir contrasts this style of service for British general officers with that of their successors fighting in the First World War, saying that the added risks officers of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars put themselves in meant that their troops "never felt the alienation from their senior officers which developed during the First World War".[2] The highest rate of death among general officers occurred during the Peninsular War, where fifteen per cent who served were killed, having a sixty per cent higher chance of dying than their junior officers.[1]

Generals edit

Image Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References
  William Grinfield British Army 19 October 1803 Yellow fever Barbados, West Indies Windward and Leedward Islands [3][4][5]

Lieutenant-Generals edit

Image Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References
  Sir John Vaughan British Army 30 June 1795 Bowel complaint, possibly poison Martinique, West Indies Windward Islands [6]
  Sir Ralph Abercromby British Army 28 March 1801 Hostile fire (small arms)[Note 1] Alexandria, Egypt Egypt Army [8][7]
Sir William Myers British Army 29 July 1805 Illness Barbados, West Indies Windward and Leeward Islands [9]
  Sir John Moore British Army 16 January 1809 Hostile fire (cannonball) Coruña, Spain Coruña Army [10][11][12]
  Alexander Mackenzie Fraser British Army 13 September 1809 Illness Britain (illness caught on active service) 4th Division, Walcheren campaign [8][13]
  Sir Thomas Picton British Army 18 June 1815 Hostile fire (small arms) Waterloo, Belgium 5th Division [10][14][15]

Major-Generals edit

Image Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References
John Mansel British Army 26 April 1794 Hostile fire (small arms) Beaumont, France Brigade of Dragoons, Flanders campaign [16][17]
Thomas Dundas British Army 3 June 1794 Yellow fever Basseterre, Guadeloupe Governor of Guadeloupe, West Indies campaign [18]
William Clephane British Army 4 November 1803 Illness Grenada, West Indies Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada [19]
Patrick Wauchope British Army 31 March 1807 Hostile fire (small arms) Rosetta, Egypt Second-in-command, Alexandria expedition [10][20][21]
John Randoll Mackenzie British Army 28 July 1809 Hostile fire (small arms) Talavera, Spain 3rd Division [10][22][23]
  Coote Manningham British Army 26 August 1809 Fatigue Britain (fatigue caused on active service) 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Coruña campaign [8][11]
Richard Stewart British Army 19 October 1810 Fell off balcony while delirious with eye infection Lisbon, Portugal Brigade, 2nd Division [8][24]
Daniel Hoghton British Army 16 May 1811 Hostile fire (small arms) Albuera, Spain Brigade, 2nd Division (had replaced Stewart) [10][25][26]
  Henry MacKinnon British Army 19 January 1812 Hostile fire (magazine explosion) Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain Brigade, 3rd Division [10][27]
  Robert Craufurd British Army 24 January 1812 Hostile fire (small arms) Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain Light Division [10][28]
Barnard Foord Bowes British Army 23 June 1812 Hostile fire (small arms) Salamanca, Spain Brigade, 6th Division [10][29]
  John Le Marchant British Army 22 July 1812 Hostile fire (small arms) Salamanca, Spain Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division [10][30]
William Wheatley British Army 1 September 1812 Typhus San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain Brigade, 1st Division [31][32]
Richard Hulse British Army 7 September 1812 Typhus Arévalo, Spain 5th Division [31][33]
Andrew Ross British Army 26 September 1812 Fever Cartagena, Spain Cartagena garrison [31][34][35]
  Sir Isaac Brock British Army 13 October 1812 Hostile fire (small arms) Queenston, Upper Canada Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada [10][36][37]
  Sir William Erskine British Army 13 February 1813 Suicide by jumping out of a window Lisbon, Portugal 2nd Cavalry Division [31][38]
William Frederick Spry Portuguese Army 16 January 1814 Illness[Note 2] Southampton, Britain (illness caught on active service) 3rd Portuguese Brigade, 5th Division [31][40][41][42]
Eberhardt Otto George von Bock British Army 21 January 1814 Drowned At sea, off Pleubian, France Heavy Dragoon Brigade, King's German Legion [31][43]
John Byne Skerrett British Army 10 March 1814 Hostile fire (small arms) Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands Brigade, Bergen op Zoom [10][44][45]
  Andrew Hay British Army 14 April 1814 Hostile fire Bayonne, France Brigade, 1st Division [10][46]
  Robert Ross British Army 12 September 1814 Hostile fire (small arms) North Point, United States Brigade, United States [10][47]
  Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie British Army 31 October 1814 Hostile fire (small arms) Kalunga, India Meerut Division, Bengal Army [10][48]
  Sir Samuel Gibbs British Army 8 January 1815 Hostile fire New Orleans, United States Second-in-command, New Orleans expedition [10][49][50]
  Sir Edward Pakenham British Army 8 January 1815 Hostile fire (small arms) New Orleans, United States New Orleans expedition [10][51]
  Sir William Ponsonby British Army 18 June 1815 Hostile fire (small arms)[Note 3] Waterloo, Belgium 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Corps [10][53]

Brigadier-Generals edit

Image Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References
Richard Symes British Army 19 July 1794 Hostile fire (small arms)[Note 4] Saint Kitts, West Indies Brigade, Invasion of Guadeloupe, West Indies campaign [55]
Stephens Howe British Army 20 July 1796 Yellow fever Port Royal, Jamaica [56]
John Henry Yorke British Army 1 November 1805 Drowned At sea, off Brazil Royal Artillery, Cape of Good Hope expedition [8][57]
Robert Anstruther British Army 14 January 1809 Pneumonia Coruña, Spain 1st Brigade, Reserve Division, Coruña campaign [8][58]
Ernst Eberhard Cuno Langwerth von Simmern [de] British Army 28 July 1809 Hostile fire (grapeshot) Talavera, Spain 3rd Brigade, 1st Division [10][59][60]
James Catlin Craufurd British Army 25 September 1810 Malaria Abrantes, Portugal Brigade, 2nd Division [8][61]
William Campbell Portuguese Army 2 January 1811 Illness Trocifal, Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal 5th Portuguese Brigade [31][62]
Charles Millar Portuguese Army February 1811 Illness Portugal Portuguese Militia [31]
George Drummond British Army 8 September 1811 Trench mouth Fuenteguinaldo, Spain 2nd Brigade, Light Division [8][63]
  Francis Colman Portuguese Army[Note 5] 12 December 1811 Fever Lisbon, Portugal 6th Portuguese Brigade, 7th Division [31][65][66][67][68]
Richard Collins Portuguese Army 17 February 1813 Exhaustion Gouveia, Portugal 6th Portuguese Brigade, 7th Division [31][69][70]
William Harvey Portuguese Army 10 June 1813 Illness[Note 6] At sea, en route to Britain 9th Portuguese Brigade, 4th Division [31][72][71][73]
Arthur Gore British Army 8/9 March 1814 Hostile fire Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands Brigade, Bergen op Zoom [10][45]

Colonels edit

Image Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References
  James Wynch British Army 6 January 1811 Dysentery Lisbon, Portugal 2nd Brigade, Light Division [8][74][75]
George Wilson British Army 5 January 1813 Fever Moraleja, Spain Brigade, 2nd Division [31][76]
Henry Cadogan British Army 21 June 1813 Hostile fire Vitoria, Spain 1st Brigade, 2nd Division [77]
Georg Carl August du Plat [de] British Army 21 June 1815 Hostile fire Waterloo, Belgium 1st Brigade, King's German Legion, 2nd Division [10][78]

Notes and citations edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Died of septicaemia after being shot in the leg at the Battle of Alexandria.[7]
  2. ^ Recorded as dying from wounds received at the Siege of San Sebastián, or of an illness caught there.[39]
  3. ^ Also recorded that he was stabbed to death by Polish lancers.[52]
  4. ^ Died of wounds (gangrene) received on 1 July.[54]
  5. ^ Colman held only a Portuguese commission, having mistakenly resigned his British commission in 1805.[64]
  6. ^ Caused by wounds taken at the Siege of Badajoz.[71]

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 229.
  2. ^ Muir (2000), p. 161.
  3. ^ Howard (2015), p. 117.
  4. ^ Howard (2015), p. 120.
  5. ^ Cannon (1842), p. 67.
  6. ^ Thomas (2008).
  7. ^ a b Gates (2007).
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 231.
  9. ^ Burke & Burke (1844), p. 351.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 230.
  11. ^ a b Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 262.
  12. ^ Sweetman (2011).
  13. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 43.
  14. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 55.
  15. ^ Clayton (2015), p. 410.
  16. ^ Haythornthwaite (1996), p. 22.
  17. ^ Haythornthwaite (1996), p. 34.
  18. ^ Houlding (2008).
  19. ^ Thorne, R. G. "MACLEAN CLEPHANE, William Douglas (1759-1803), of Kirkness, Kinross". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  20. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 28.
  21. ^ Pocock (2005), p. 80.
  22. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 192.
  23. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 194.
  24. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 278–279.
  25. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 140.
  26. ^ Lloyd & Gates (2005).
  27. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 199–201.
  28. ^ Heathcote (2010), pp. 39–40.
  29. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 54–55.
  30. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 168–170.
  31. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 232.
  32. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 308.
  33. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 144–145.
  34. ^ Soulsby & Stearn (2004).
  35. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 162.
  36. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 49.
  37. ^ Sweetman (2004a).
  38. ^ Heathcote (2010), pp. 49–50.
  39. ^ Maclean (1868), p. 71.
  40. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 292.
  41. ^ Glover (2001), p. 130.
  42. ^ "Portsmouth, Saturday, January 29, 1814". Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph. Leeds, England. 31 January 1814.
  43. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 50–52.
  44. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 258.
  45. ^ a b Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 51.
  46. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 133.
  47. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 254.
  48. ^ Chichester & Lunt (2004).
  49. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 50.
  50. ^ Rapson & Harfield (2008).
  51. ^ Heathcote (2010), p. 99.
  52. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 234.
  53. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 231.
  54. ^ Brown (2018), p. 194.
  55. ^ Brown (2018), pp. 192–194.
  56. ^ Thorne, R. G. "Howe, Stephens (1758–96), of 22 Marley Street, Mdx". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  57. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 24.
  58. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 23.
  59. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 166–167.
  60. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 265.
  61. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 87.
  62. ^ Ward (1975), p. 106.
  63. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), pp. 100–101.
  64. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 291.
  65. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 268.
  66. ^ Bremner, Robert (2012). "Brigadier Francis John Colman: His Death in Lisbon and its Consequences". The British Historical Society of Portugal. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  67. ^ Reid (2019), pp. 261–262.
  68. ^ Ward (1975), pp. 106–107.
  69. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 279.
  70. ^ Gaudencio & Burnham (2021), p. 290.
  71. ^ a b Reid (2019), p. 176.
  72. ^ Burnham & McGuigan (2010), p. 276.
  73. ^ Ward (1975), p. 108.
  74. ^ McGuigan & Burnham (2017), p. 101.
  75. ^ "Colonel James Wynch". King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster. 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  76. ^ Reid (2019), pp. 241–242.
  77. ^ Sweetman (2004b).
  78. ^ Clayton (2015), p. 352.

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This is a list of general officers of the British Armed Forces who were killed or died while on active service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars This comprises the period of 1793 1815 and includes British general officers who were serving in the British Army or attached to the allied Portuguese Army Officers of the rank of colonel are included if they were acting in the position of a general officer that being a brigade or larger at the time of their death despite them not themselves being general officers Officers are also included if they had recently left a command at the time of their death and their active service was the cause of it Contents 1 Background 2 Generals 3 Lieutenant Generals 4 Major Generals 5 Brigadier Generals 6 Colonels 7 Notes and citations 7 1 Notes 7 2 Citations 8 ReferencesBackground editThe death and injury rate of senior officers fighting in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was unusually high General officers of the period regularly demonstrated their courage and served to the forefront in battles placing themselves in positions of high jeopardy Sanitary and living conditions on military campaigns in the period were also poor leading to a number of general officers succumbing to illness and disease while on service 1 The historian Rory Muir contrasts this style of service for British general officers with that of their successors fighting in the First World War saying that the added risks officers of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars put themselves in meant that their troops never felt the alienation from their senior officers which developed during the First World War 2 The highest rate of death among general officers occurred during the Peninsular War where fifteen per cent who served were killed having a sixty per cent higher chance of dying than their junior officers 1 Generals editImage Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References nbsp William Grinfield British Army 19 October 1803 Yellow fever Barbados West Indies Windward and Leedward Islands 3 4 5 Lieutenant Generals editImage Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References nbsp Sir John Vaughan British Army 30 June 1795 Bowel complaint possibly poison Martinique West Indies Windward Islands 6 nbsp Sir Ralph Abercromby British Army 28 March 1801 Hostile fire small arms Note 1 Alexandria Egypt Egypt Army 8 7 Sir William Myers British Army 29 July 1805 Illness Barbados West Indies Windward and Leeward Islands 9 nbsp Sir John Moore British Army 16 January 1809 Hostile fire cannonball Coruna Spain Coruna Army 10 11 12 nbsp Alexander Mackenzie Fraser British Army 13 September 1809 Illness Britain illness caught on active service 4th Division Walcheren campaign 8 13 nbsp Sir Thomas Picton British Army 18 June 1815 Hostile fire small arms Waterloo Belgium 5th Division 10 14 15 Major Generals editImage Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References John Mansel British Army 26 April 1794 Hostile fire small arms Beaumont France Brigade of Dragoons Flanders campaign 16 17 Thomas Dundas British Army 3 June 1794 Yellow fever Basseterre Guadeloupe Governor of Guadeloupe West Indies campaign 18 William Clephane British Army 4 November 1803 Illness Grenada West Indies Lieutenant Governor of Grenada 19 Patrick Wauchope British Army 31 March 1807 Hostile fire small arms Rosetta Egypt Second in command Alexandria expedition 10 20 21 John Randoll Mackenzie British Army 28 July 1809 Hostile fire small arms Talavera Spain 3rd Division 10 22 23 nbsp Coote Manningham British Army 26 August 1809 Fatigue Britain fatigue caused on active service 3rd Brigade 1st Division Coruna campaign 8 11 Richard Stewart British Army 19 October 1810 Fell off balcony while delirious with eye infection Lisbon Portugal Brigade 2nd Division 8 24 Daniel Hoghton British Army 16 May 1811 Hostile fire small arms Albuera Spain Brigade 2nd Division had replaced Stewart 10 25 26 nbsp Henry MacKinnon British Army 19 January 1812 Hostile fire magazine explosion Ciudad Rodrigo Spain Brigade 3rd Division 10 27 nbsp Robert Craufurd British Army 24 January 1812 Hostile fire small arms Ciudad Rodrigo Spain Light Division 10 28 Barnard Foord Bowes British Army 23 June 1812 Hostile fire small arms Salamanca Spain Brigade 6th Division 10 29 nbsp John Le Marchant British Army 22 July 1812 Hostile fire small arms Salamanca Spain Brigade 1st Cavalry Division 10 30 William Wheatley British Army 1 September 1812 Typhus San Lorenzo de El Escorial Spain Brigade 1st Division 31 32 Richard Hulse British Army 7 September 1812 Typhus Arevalo Spain 5th Division 31 33 Andrew Ross British Army 26 September 1812 Fever Cartagena Spain Cartagena garrison 31 34 35 nbsp Sir Isaac Brock British Army 13 October 1812 Hostile fire small arms Queenston Upper Canada Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada 10 36 37 nbsp Sir William Erskine British Army 13 February 1813 Suicide by jumping out of a window Lisbon Portugal 2nd Cavalry Division 31 38 William Frederick Spry Portuguese Army 16 January 1814 Illness Note 2 Southampton Britain illness caught on active service 3rd Portuguese Brigade 5th Division 31 40 41 42 Eberhardt Otto George von Bock British Army 21 January 1814 Drowned At sea off Pleubian France Heavy Dragoon Brigade King s German Legion 31 43 John Byne Skerrett British Army 10 March 1814 Hostile fire small arms Bergen op Zoom Netherlands Brigade Bergen op Zoom 10 44 45 nbsp Andrew Hay British Army 14 April 1814 Hostile fire Bayonne France Brigade 1st Division 10 46 nbsp Robert Ross British Army 12 September 1814 Hostile fire small arms North Point United States Brigade United States 10 47 nbsp Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie British Army 31 October 1814 Hostile fire small arms Kalunga India Meerut Division Bengal Army 10 48 nbsp Sir Samuel Gibbs British Army 8 January 1815 Hostile fire New Orleans United States Second in command New Orleans expedition 10 49 50 nbsp Sir Edward Pakenham British Army 8 January 1815 Hostile fire small arms New Orleans United States New Orleans expedition 10 51 nbsp Sir William Ponsonby British Army 18 June 1815 Hostile fire small arms Note 3 Waterloo Belgium 2nd Cavalry Brigade Cavalry Corps 10 53 Brigadier Generals editImage Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References Richard Symes British Army 19 July 1794 Hostile fire small arms Note 4 Saint Kitts West Indies Brigade Invasion of Guadeloupe West Indies campaign 55 Stephens Howe British Army 20 July 1796 Yellow fever Port Royal Jamaica 56 John Henry Yorke British Army 1 November 1805 Drowned At sea off Brazil Royal Artillery Cape of Good Hope expedition 8 57 Robert Anstruther British Army 14 January 1809 Pneumonia Coruna Spain 1st Brigade Reserve Division Coruna campaign 8 58 Ernst Eberhard Cuno Langwerth von Simmern de British Army 28 July 1809 Hostile fire grapeshot Talavera Spain 3rd Brigade 1st Division 10 59 60 James Catlin Craufurd British Army 25 September 1810 Malaria Abrantes Portugal Brigade 2nd Division 8 61 William Campbell Portuguese Army 2 January 1811 Illness Trocifal Lines of Torres Vedras Portugal 5th Portuguese Brigade 31 62 Charles Millar Portuguese Army February 1811 Illness Portugal Portuguese Militia 31 George Drummond British Army 8 September 1811 Trench mouth Fuenteguinaldo Spain 2nd Brigade Light Division 8 63 nbsp Francis Colman Portuguese Army Note 5 12 December 1811 Fever Lisbon Portugal 6th Portuguese Brigade 7th Division 31 65 66 67 68 Richard Collins Portuguese Army 17 February 1813 Exhaustion Gouveia Portugal 6th Portuguese Brigade 7th Division 31 69 70 William Harvey Portuguese Army 10 June 1813 Illness Note 6 At sea en route to Britain 9th Portuguese Brigade 4th Division 31 72 71 73 Arthur Gore British Army 8 9 March 1814 Hostile fire Bergen op Zoom Netherlands Brigade Bergen op Zoom 10 45 Colonels editImage Name Branch Date of death Cause of death Location Command References nbsp James Wynch British Army 6 January 1811 Dysentery Lisbon Portugal 2nd Brigade Light Division 8 74 75 George Wilson British Army 5 January 1813 Fever Moraleja Spain Brigade 2nd Division 31 76 Henry Cadogan British Army 21 June 1813 Hostile fire Vitoria Spain 1st Brigade 2nd Division 77 Georg Carl August du Plat de British Army 21 June 1815 Hostile fire Waterloo Belgium 1st Brigade King s German Legion 2nd Division 10 78 Notes and citations editNotes edit Died of septicaemia after being shot in the leg at the Battle of Alexandria 7 Recorded as dying from wounds received at the Siege of San Sebastian or of an illness caught there 39 Also recorded that he was stabbed to death by Polish lancers 52 Died of wounds gangrene received on 1 July 54 Colman held only a Portuguese commission having mistakenly resigned his British commission in 1805 64 Caused by wounds taken at the Siege of Badajoz 71 Citations edit a b Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 229 Muir 2000 p 161 Howard 2015 p 117 Howard 2015 p 120 Cannon 1842 p 67 Thomas 2008 a b Gates 2007 a b c d e f g h i Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 231 Burke amp Burke 1844 p 351 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 230 a b Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 262 Sweetman 2011 Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 43 Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 55 Clayton 2015 p 410 Haythornthwaite 1996 p 22 Haythornthwaite 1996 p 34 Houlding 2008 Thorne R G MACLEAN CLEPHANE William Douglas 1759 1803 of Kirkness Kinross The History of Parliament Retrieved 27 April 2022 Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 28 Pocock 2005 p 80 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 p 192 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 p 194 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 pp 278 279 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 p 140 Lloyd amp Gates 2005 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 pp 199 201 Heathcote 2010 pp 39 40 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 pp 54 55 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 pp 168 170 a b c d e f g h i j k l Burnham amp McGuigan 2010 p 232 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 p 308 McGuigan amp Burnham 2017 pp 144 145 Soulsby amp Stearn 2004 McGuigan 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