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General Morris

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ110296728 ↗
Source-derived summary

General Morris may refer to:

Basil Morris (1888–1975), Australian Army major general

David Morris (United States Army officer) (fl. 1970s–2020s), U.S. Army major general

Edmund Finucane Morris (1792–1871), British Army general

Edwin Morris (British Army officer) (1889–1970), British Army general

John Ignatius Morris (1842–1902), Royal Marines lieutenant general

John W. Morris (1921–2013), U.S. Army lieutenant general

Shaun Morris (fl. 1980s–2020s), U.S. Air Force lieutenant general

Staats Long Morris (1728–1800), British Army general

Thomas A. Morris (1811–1904), Indiana Militia brigadier general in service to the Union Army in the American Civil War

William H. H. Morris Jr.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “General Morris” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1975, 1792, 1871—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where General, Morris and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q110296728. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1975, 1792 and 1871.

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This entry incorporates text from “General Morris” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.