In which place was Henry Spencer Palmer born: Åbo, Rittenhousetown, Germantown, Pennsylvania, Lower Lodge Farm, Toxteth Park, Lancashire or Bangalore, British India?

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Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer, a British Royal Engineer, was part of the elite Columbia Detachment that helped establish the Colony of British Columbia.

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