Sir Charles Ash Windham | |
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![]() General Sir Charles Ash Windham | |
Born | October 10, 1810 |
Place of birth | Felbrigg, Norfolk |
Place of death | Jacksonville, Florida |
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Rank | General |
Battles/wars | Crimean War |
General Sir Charles Ash Windham (10 October 1810 – 2 February 1870) was a British Army officer and Liberal Party politician.
Military career[]
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826.[1] He led the attack during the Battle of the Great Redan during the Crimean War: the correspondent of the Times claimed that in so doing he had "saved the honour of the army."[1] He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.[1]
Windham became a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859.[2] Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867.[1] Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.[1][3]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Charles Ash Windham". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/windham_charles_ash_9E.html. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)}[better source needed] }}
- ↑ "Obituary: Sir Charles Ash Windham". The Illustrated London News, Volume 56. https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZlQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
Further reading[]
Lee, Sidney, ed (1900). "Windham, Charles Ash". Dictionary of National Biography. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Charles Ashe Windham: A Norfolk Soldier (1810-1870) by H.O. Mansfield. 1973
- The Crimean diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny, and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell ; the whole edited by Hugh Pease (1897)
External links[]
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- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by General Charles Windham
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