British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
Brooke, William
By: Ron McGuigan
Brooke, William (1770?- 9 September 1843)
Cornet 8th Light Dragoons 1793, Lieutenant 83rd
Foot 1793, Captain Independent Company 1793, Captain 96th Foot*
1794, Major 96th Foot* 1794, Major Unattached 1795-1798, Half-pay 1798-1805,
Major 56th Foot 1805, Major 5th Dragoon Guards 1805, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
1800, Brevet Colonel 1810, Brigadier General on the Staff 1813,
Major General 1813, Lieutenant General 1825, General 1841.
*disbanded 1796.
Early Service: West Indies 1794-1796.
Peninsular War: Assistant Adjutant-General 1810. Served
with his regiment. On staff Lisbon September 1812 - April 1814.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: July 2007; updated December 2011
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