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  1. York, Frederick Augustus, duke of York
  2. 1763-1827. Second son of George III. He was
  3. an unsuccessful commander in the Netherlands
  4. 1793-99, and British commander in chief
  5. 1798-1809. The nursery rhyme about the `grand
  6. old duke of York' who marched his troops up
  7. the hill and down again commemorates him, as
  8. does the Duke of York's column in Waterloo
  9. Place, London.
  10.