Field Marshal Henry Hardinge 1st Viscount Hardinge 1785 1856 British Governor general India Queen's Rangers Battle of Vimeiro
Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British field marshal and Governor-general of India. He was born at Wrotham in Kent. After attending Durham School he entered the British Army in 1799 as an ensign in the Queen's Rangers, a corps then stationed in Upper Canada. His first active service was at the Battle of Vimeiro, where he was wounded, and at Corunna he was by the side of Sir John Moore when the latter was killed. Subsequently he was appointed deputy-quartermaster-general in the Portuguese army and was present at many of the battles of the Peninsular War. At Albuera, in 1811, he saved the day for the British by taking the responsibility at a critical moment of strongly urging General Cole's division to advance. He was wounded again at Battle of Vitoria in 1813. When war broke out again in 1815 after Napoleon's escape from Elba, Hardinge returned to active service as a brigadier. He was present at the Battle of Ligny on June 16, 1815, where he lost his left hand by a shot, and thus was not present at Waterloo two days later. Wellington presented him with a sword that had belonged to Napoleon.
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