Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 13, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Dec 06, 2023
	Anniversary information added.		Aug 07, 2023
	Add new Web site: The Napoleon Series - Biography of Rowland Hill.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jun 20, 2017
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Jan 26, 2010
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jun 14, 2002
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998