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Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1771)

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July to October, when he again assumed command of the 6th Division. He was given the local rank of lieutenant general in 1813. He took part in the subsequent victories at the battles of
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in 1805, Clinton was the British military attaché to the Russian army. He commanded the garrison of Syracuse in Sicily in 1806–1807.
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which Wellington posted in reserve behind his right flank. The 2nd Division included the 3rd British Brigade (Maj-Gen
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He received his officer's commission in 1787. He went on to serve in the Flanders campaign as an aide-de-camp to the
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He died at his country residence in Ashley, Hampshire on 11 December 1829. He had married Susan, the daughter of
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Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower (1742-1814)
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He came from a family of soldiers. His elder brother was
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Clinton first went to sea as a midshipman in 1786 in
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Henry Clinton (Napoleonic Wars)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom

British Army
Lieutenant-General
French Revolutionary Wars
Peninsular War
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
Lieutenant-General
GCB
GCH
British Army
general officer
Napoleonic Wars
William Henry Clinton
General Sir Henry Clinton
British Commander-in-Chief in North America
American Revolutionary War
Admiral of the Fleet
George Clinton
HMS Salisbury
Erasmus Gower
John Elliot
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Alexander Suvarov
Battle of Austerlitz
Boroughbridge

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