A Rare Flintlock Eliott Carbine.
With plain barrel and tang, the former with fore-sight also forming the lug for a bayonet, border engraved rounded lock with ‘GR’ crowned and ‘Tower’ across the tail, figured full stock, with apron around the barrel tang, stamped with inspector’s marks behind the trigger-guard tang and with initials ‘TG’ behind the side-plate, regulation brass mounts, flat side-plate of shaped outline, brass fore-end cap, steel sling bar, original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling cut with a groove, Tower proofs.
Scottish-born General George Augustus Eliott was educated at the University of Leiden, where he studied artillery and military theory at the École Militaire in France. Having served in the Prussian Army from 1735-1736, he then took part in the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Later, during the Seven Years War (1754-1763) he served as aide-de-camp to King George II, being appointed Colonel of the 1st Horse and later the 15th Light Dragoons in 1759. In 1765 Eliott was promoted to Lieutenant-General, and eventually in 1778 promoted to the position of General, overseeing many of the improvements to the defences of Gibraltar. For his part in the defence at The Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1782, Eliott was rewarded by the King, and Parliament made him a Knight of the Bath. He died in 1790 whilst returning to Gibraltar.
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