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Joseph Anderson (British Army officer) Andrew Pilkington; Henry White, 1st Baron Annaly; George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797) George Anson (British Army officer, born 1769) Robert Anstruther (British Army officer) Robert Arbuthnot (British Army officer) Thomas Arbuthnot; Mervyn Archdall (died 1839) Richard Armstrong (British Army officer)
The British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars experienced a time of rapid change. At the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, the army was a small, awkwardly administered force of barely 40,000 men. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the numbers had vastly increased. At its peak, in 1813, the regular army ...
To be included in this category a soldier must have commanded a corps or an army consisting of one or more corps. Pages in category "British Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
With there being 10,590 officers in the army in 1814, they determine that members of the British nobility made up 2% of the officer corps, or 224 people. [27] The following table outlines the different members of the nobility serving in the British Army in the period of the Napoleonic Wars, 1805–1816:
Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770–1815) was an English officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, rising to the rank of major-general. [1] Gibbs was second-in-command under Edward Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans and died of wounds received while leading one of the main columns in the failed British assault.
The malpractices associated with the purchase of commissions reached their height in the long peace between the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War, when James Brudenell, Lord Cardigan paid £35,000 (equivalent to £4,110,000 in 2023) for the lieutenant-colonelcy of the stylish 11th Hussars. [6]
This is a list of general officers of the British Armed Forces who were killed or died while on active service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.This comprises the period of 1793–1815, and includes British general officers who were serving in the British Army or attached to the allied Portuguese Army.
Major-General Robert Ross (1766 – 12 September 1814) was an Irish officer in the British Army who served in the Napoleonic Wars and its theatre in North America in the War of 1812. Ross joined the British Army in 1789. He served as an officer in several battles during the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battles of Maida and Corunna, gaining ...