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Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet

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During a review of the unit by General Stewart, he got into conversation with the youth and offered to procure him a commission. A short time later a commission as a second lieutenant with the 95th Rifle Regiment arrived. A chapel in the town's St Mary's church was restored in his memory in 1862, and
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After a long illness he died at his home at Eton Place, London, on 12 October 1860. He was buried at St Mary's, Whittlesey, where he is commemorated with a marble bust and memorial. That section of the church is known as Sir Harry's Chapel. His wife, Juana, deceased 10 October 1872, is interred with
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It has been asserted that "the half-mad Smith's" seizure of the entire region of "British Kaffraria" in 1848 was launched and carried out "entirely on his own initiative." Piers Brendon described "Smith, placing his foot on the neck of the Xhosan soldier and proclaiming, 'I am your Paramount Chief,
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in 1815, and afterwards rewarded as Assistant Quartermaster-General to the division. During the occupation of France he was sent to be Mayor of Cambray in Picardy. With the restoration of peace in France he returned to divisional ADC at Glasgow for Major-General Reynell, GOC Western District of
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on 10 February he again commanded a division under Gough. For the great victory of Aliwal he was awarded the thanks of Parliament; and the speech of the Duke of Wellington was perhaps the warmest encomium ever bestowed by that great commander on a meritorious officer. Smith was at the same time
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In 1847 he returned to South Africa as Governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner, with the local rank of Lieutenant-General, to grapple with the difficulties he had foreseen eleven years before. Issues he faced ranged from domestic problems within the colony, such as the
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Smith was promoted Major in the army by the end of 1826, but remained unattached to a regimental posting, and was still unattached when raised to Lieutenant-colonel in July 1830. In 1828 Smith was ordered to the Cape of Good Hope, where he commanded a force in the
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United Battalion. The east end of the south aisle of St. Mary’s church was at this time partitioned off and used as a schoolroom, the vicar or curate teaching. It was here that Harry Smith received his education from the Rev. George Burgess, then curate.
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Harry Smith—for throughout life he adopted the more familiar form of his Christian name—was educated privately and was commissioned on 8 May 1805, and then promoted Lieutenant on 15 August. His first active service was in South America in 1806 during the
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a well-born Spanish lady, whose entire property in the city had been destroyed, presented herself at the British lines seeking protection from the licence of the soldiery for herself and her sister, a child of fourteen. The latter,
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created a baronet; and as a special distinction the words "of Aliwal" were by the patent appended to the title. He was promoted to Major-General on 9 November 1846.
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Smith, Sir Harry. ‘'The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej.'’ Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street 1903
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Scotland. Smith impressed Reynell, who helped his appointment as ADC to the Governor of Nova Scotia, Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt in 1826.
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in less than six days; after he had restored confidence among the whites by his energetic measures, he was appointed governor of the
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At the close of the war, Harry Smith volunteered for service in the United States, where he was present at the
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The story of Harry Smith and his wife in the Peninsular Campaign and the Battle of Waterloo is narrated in
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back in England. He was given brevet promotion to lieutenant-general on 20 June 1854 and appointed GOC
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His autobiography, first published posthumously in 1901, is regarded as a classic of love and war.
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in 1840, where he took part in the Gwalior campaign of 1843, for which he was appointed a
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Impressed by the showing of the Cape Mounted Riflemen under his command, Smith created
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of 1834-36. In 1835 he accomplished the feat of riding the 550 miles from Cape Town to
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a local community college also bears his name: Sir Harry Smith Community College.
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He took command of an expedition to deal with the disaffected Boers in the
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Remember you are an Englishman: A Biography of Sir Harry Smith, 1787–1860
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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in which he served from 1808 through to the end of the war at the
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Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters
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British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War
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in 1807, but first came to real prominence during the
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He was in command of a division under 364:Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith 306:British invasions of the Río de la Plata 232:Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith 999:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 731:. 10 November 1846. pp. 3987–3989. 709: 657: 1732:Military personnel from Cambridgeshire 1581:Those in italics were Acting Governors 1098:47th (the Lancashire) Regiment of Foot 776: 774: 1070:Works by Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet 544:Sir Harry Smith's Medal for Gallantry 344:on 24 August 1814, and witnessed the 7: 896:Harington, Andrew L. (1 June 1974). 461:Harry Smith's Annexations, 1847-1854 346:burning of the capitol at Washington 1048:. HarperCollins. pp. 190–194. 1030:"Smith, Harry George Wakelyn"  881:. Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers. 801:. 22 June 1854. pp. 1931–1932. 665:"Sir Harry Smith's Return to Ely". 1044:Welsh, Frank (1998). "Chapter 8". 751:. 10 September 1847. p. 3262. 335:Juana Maria de Los Dolores de León 308:. 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(1980). 816:. 20 October 1860. p. 3. 1702:Governors of the Cape Colony 1330:Governors of the Cape Colony 1016:UK public library membership 812:"Death of Sir Harry Smith". 643:Resources in other libraries 619:Resources in other libraries 600:Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet 1242:Governor of the Cape Colony 975:. London: Faber and Faber. 1748: 930:Lehmann, Joseph H (1977). 684:. 17 July 1846. p. 3. 669:. 10 July 1847. p. 4. 556:General Officer Commanding 385:Province of Queen Adelaide 29: 18:Harry George Wakelyn Smith 1588: 1552:William Howley Goodenough 1375: 1270: 1265: 1258: 1248: 1239: 1231: 1226: 1216: 1207: 1199: 1189: 1178: 1170: 1160: 1151: 1143: 1133: 1122: 1114: 1104: 1094: 1086: 1081: 1046:A History of South Africa 934:. 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Harry George Wakelyn Smith
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Napoleonic Wars
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First Anglo-Sikh War
Battle of Boomplaats
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith
Lieutenant-General
GCB
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Aliwal
Cape Colony
Lady Smith

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