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| | Stephen Wood, Research and Consultancy in Military History |
 | | Born in Ireland in 1759, he was the nephew of General Sir Eyre Coote, KB (1726-83), who had already distinguished himself during numerous campaigns in India and who was to continue to dominate military affairs in the sub-continent until his death at Madras in 1783. |
 | | Thus, in 1797, Eyre Coote was thirty-eight years old, a colonel in the Army and holding local rank in Ireland as a brigadier-general while he commanded the garrison at Bandon, fifteen miles south-west of Cork, a command to which he had been appointed in 1796. |
 | | Coote was found guilty of conduct unbecoming to the character of an officer and gentleman and dismissed the Army, losing his rank, his privileges and his knighthood. |
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