British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
Hardinge, Henry
By: Ron McGuigan
Hardinge, Henry (30 March 1785 - 24 September 1856)
Younger brother of Captain George Hardinge RN and older brother of
Major General Richard Hardinge.
Ensign Queen's Rangers* 1798, Half-pay 1802, Lieutenant 4th Foot 1802,
Lieutenant 1st Foot 1803, Lieutenant 47th Foot 1803, Captain
57th Foot 1804, Major EOPS 1809, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 1811,
Lieutenant Colonel 40th Foot 1814, Captain & Lieutenant Colonel
1st Foot Guards 1814, Brevet Colonel 1821, Half-pay 1827, Brigadier
General on the continent 1815, Major General 1830, Lieutenant General
1841, General Home Staff 1852, General l854, Field Marshal 1855.
* disbanded 1802.
Served in Portuguese Service 1809-1814. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel
1809, Colonel 1813.
Early Service: Attended Royal Military College 1806-1807, Deputy Assistant
Quartermaster-General with a force Mediterranean 1807-1808.
Portugal & Spain: Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General Portugal
and wounded at Vimeiro 1808. Aide De Camp to Commander-in-Chief
Spain 1808-1809 and at Corunna 1809.
Peninsular War: Deputy Quartermaster-General to Portuguese Army 1809-1814.
Commanded a brigade
Portuguese Army 1814. Wounded Vitoria June 1813.
Other Service: British Military Commissioner to Prussian Army Flanders
and France 1815-1818 and wounded at Ligny 1815. Clerk of the Ordnance
1823-1827 and 1828, Secretary at War 1828-1830, Irish Secretary
1830 and 1834-1835, Secretary at War 1841-1844. Governor-General India
1844-1848 and acted as second-in-command 1st Sikh War 1845-1846. Master
General of the Ordnance 1852. General Commanding-in-Chief British Army
1852-1856.
MP 1820-1844. KCB 1815. GCB 1844. Created Viscount Hardinge 1846.
Colonel of the 97th Foot 1833-1843, 57th Foot 1843-1856.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: November 2008
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