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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.
- 1790–1842
- British Army
13 de mar. de 2024 · Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (born August 11, 1772, Hawkstone, Shropshire, England—died December 10, 1842, Hardwicke Grange, Shropshire) was a British general and one of the Duke of Wellington’s chief lieutenants in the Peninsular (Spanish) campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Rowland Hill, 1 er vizconde Hill (11 de agosto de 1772-10 de diciembre de 1842), fue un general británico que destacó en las guerras napoleónicas, sobre todo en Egipto, la Península ibérica y la batalla de Waterloo. Actuó la mayor parte de su carrera a las órdenes del duque de Wellington, quien confiaba plenamente en él. [1]
General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for General Rowland Hill.
- the Hon. Michael Charles David Clegg-Hill
- Baron Hill, Baronet Clegg-Hill of Hawkestone
- (Peter) David Raymond Charles Clegg-Hill, 9th Viscount Hill
- Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almarez was a man who frequently led from the front in some of the deadliest battles ofthe Napoleonic Wars. Hill was given his own ‘detached' corps and fought his way through Spain, Portugal and France, winning battles against the odds – such at St Pierre, where he defeated the redoubtable ...
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828.
Rowland Hill, first Viscount Hill, general, was the second son and fourth of the sixteen children of John Hill, afterwards third baronet, of Hawkstone, Shropshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Chambre of Petton in the same county.
