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Field Marshal Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala GCB GCSI FRS (6 December 1810 – 14 January 1890) was a British Indian Army officer. He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. Baron Napier of Magdala, in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1868 for the military commander Sir Robert Napier, in recognition of his part in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia when the town of Magdala was ...
The Battle of Magdala was the conclusion of the British Expedition to Abyssinia fought in April 1868 between British and Abyssinian forces at Magdala, 390 miles (630 km) from the Red Sea coast. The British were led by Robert Napier , while the Abyssinians were led by Emperor Tewodros II .
Sir Robert Napier, 2nd Baronet (c. 1603–1661), his son, Member of Parliament; Robert Napier (British Army officer, died 1766), British Adjutant-General to the Forces; Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810–1890), British field marshal; Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baronet, of Punknoll (1642–1700), English lawyer and politician
9–13 April – expedition to Abyssinia: At the Battle of Magdala, Robert Napier decisively defeats the emperor Tewodros II. 25 April – HMS Repulse, the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy, is launched as an ironclad (with auxiliary steam propulsion) at Woolwich Dockyard.
The second half of the novel deals with Flashman's relations with the Emperor and covers the final battle with Napier's forces and their allies, after which Theodore commits suicide. Flashman tells Napier at the conclusion that the British government could have avoided the whole sorry adventure if they had simply given Theodore the respect that ...
Monroe County prosecutors can't retry a city man accused of murder because a judge wrongly decided that a mistrial was necessary in the case, a regional appellate court has decided.
General Sir Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala was appointed in 1874 colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers. [52] Commandants of the RSME have included: [53] Major-General Henry F. Thuillier: November 1919–November 1923; Major-General Philip G. Grant: November 1923–June 1927; Major-General George Walker: June 1927–February 1931