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The Hon. Colonel James Hamilton Stanhope (1788–1825), was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was a Member of Parliament for Buckingham , 1817–1818, Fowey , 1818–1819, and Dartmouth , 1822–1825.
The memoirs of the great can be illuminating about the past but the memoirs of bystanders to greatness, observant flies on famous walls, can add authenticity and immediacy to long-familiar people and events. Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. James Stanhope MP had access to a remarkable range of famous walls.
James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825) was the youngest son of the third Earl Stanhope, half-brother to Lady Hester Stanhope and personally present at the deaths of both Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1806 and General Sir John Moore in Corunna in 1809.
16 de abr. de 2021 · James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825) was the youngest son of the third Earl Stanhope, half-brother to Lady Hester Stanhope and personally present at the deaths of both Prime Minister William...
- Mark Guscin
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Militar y político inglés. Pertenecía a la familia de los condes de Chesterfield. Sirvió en Flandes bajo la bandera de Guillermo III de Inglaterra, obteniendo el grado de coronel. Durante el reinado de la reina Ana fue miembro del Parlamento inglés y más tarde embajador en los Estados generales.
Eyewitness to the Peninsular War is a compilation of the letters and journals of James Stanhope, a young aristocrat who served either as an aide-de-camp or on the staff of Generals Thomas Graham and Edward Paget during much of the Peninsular War and the 1814 Expedition to Holland.
