Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
British Army general (1772-1842)
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828.
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Born | 11 August 1772 Prees, Shropshire |
Died | 10 December 1842 Hadnall, Shropshire | (aged 70)
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Years of service | 1790–1842 |
Rank | General |
Commands held | II Corps |
Battles/wars | Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War |
Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword (Portugal) Knight Commander of the Military William Order (Netherlands) |
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Footnotes
change- ↑ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.577
References
change- Burke, Edmund (1813). The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year 1813, Volume 149.
- Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode.
- Glover, Michael (2001). The Peninsular War 1807–1814. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-139041-7.
- Hill, Joanna (2011). Wellington's Right Hand: Rowland, Viscount Hill. The History Press Limited. ISBN 978-0752459172.
- Oman, Charles (1993). Wellington's Army, 1809–1814. London: Greenhill. ISBN 0-947898-41-7.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hill, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 466–467.
Other websites
change- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Hill
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