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Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. 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. He 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 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 ...
23 de ene. 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 GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) served in the Napoleonic Wars as a trusted brigade, division and corps commander under the command of the Duke of Wellington. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828. Educated at The King's School in Chester, Hill was commissioned into 38th Foot in 1790. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 ...
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.
Hill was the son of Colonel John Hill, eldest son of Sir John Hill, 3rd Baronet. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Cornish Rhodes, while the renowned military figures Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Sir Robert Hill, Clement Hill and Sir Thomas Hill were his uncles.
