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14 de may. de 2024 · Lieutenant-General Rowland Lord Hill, 1819. Canvas by George Dawe. General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer and English aristocrat who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828.
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almaraz, was born 11 August 1772, the second son of Sir John Hill and Mary Chambre. Hill studied the techniques of war in Strasbourg and was commissioned into the 38th Foot in 1790. There were three ways to acquire a commission: One could purchase a commission, which Sir John did for his son.
1825 wurde Hill zum General befördert und wurde 1827 Gouverneur von Plymouth, im Februar 1828 Oberbefehlshaber der britischen Armee . Rowland Hill, 1. Viscount Hill, um 1842. Im August 1842 trat er in den Ruhestand und wurde am 27. September 1842 zum Viscount Hill, of Hawkestone and of Hardwicke in the County of Shrewsbury erhoben.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772-1842), General. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 25 portraits Nicknamed both' farmer' and 'daddy' because of his ruddy, fair-haired, kindly countenance and generous nature, Hill was Wellington's most reliable subordinate officer and one of the leading generals under Wellington in the Peninsula, commanding the right wing at the Battle of ...
Hill was born at Prees Hall, near Hawkstone, on 11 August 1772. He was nephew of the Rev. Rowland Hill (1744-1833). At the age of seven he was sent to school at Ightfield, near his home, and was afterwards at private schools at Chester, kept by the Rev. Mr. Vanburgh and the Rev. Mr. Winfield. He was not at Rugby, as often asserted, the Rowland ...
