Henry Prevost Babbage

<h2 id="military-career">Military career</h2>
<p>He was <a href="/facts/Brevetted/xFJ2Ndep">brevetted</a> as a <a href="/facts/Colonel/ASSc95Et">colonel</a> in the <a href="/facts/Bengal_Staff_Corps/9Agm3UM4">Bengal Staff Corps</a> on 10 June 1874.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Simon Schaffer (2019), "Ideas Embodied in Metal", The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 130–153, ISBN 9781108498272 <a href="9781108498272" target="_blank">9781108498272</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Brevet" (PDF), The London Gazette, p. 4203, 28 August 1874 <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24126/page/4203/data.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24126/page/4203/data.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Henry Prevost Babbage