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Henry Cadogan (British Army officer)

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142:, 21 June 1813, where he fell. On the latter occasion the 71st was ordered to storm the heights above the village of Puebla, whereon rested the French left. While advancing to the charge at the head of his men Cadogan was mortally wounded. At his request he was moved so as to be able to witness the success of the charge before he died, aged 33. Cadogan was unmarried. Wellington, who was a friend, wrote of his merit and gallantry in his Vittoria despatch. 170:"My Lord, I hereby request you to name a time and place where I may meet you, to obtain satisfaction for the injury done myself and my whole family by your conduct to my sister. I have to add that the time must be as early as possible, and the place not in the immediate neighbourhood of London, as it is by concealment alone that I am able to evade the Police." 137:
When the 71st Highlanders, then recently transformed into a light infantry corps, arrived out in Portugal in the summer of 1810, Cadogan joined it at Mafra and assumed command in succession to Colonel Peacocke. At its head he distinguished himself on various occasions during the subsequent campaigns,
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August 1805 he became lieutenant-colonel in the 2nd battalion (afterwards disbanded) of his old corps, the 18th Royal Irish, having purchased every step. After serving with the battalion in Scotland and the Channel Islands, he left it when it proceeded to the island of
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as Lord Paget's second and Captain McKenzie as Cadogan's. Both men discharged their pistols, honour was satisfied and the parties left the field uninjured. Lady Charlotte subsequently married Paget.
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particularly at Fuentes de Oñoro, 5 May 1811, when he succeeded to the command of a brigade consisting of the 24th, 71st, and 79th regiments, at Arroyo dos Molinos 28 Oct. 1811, and at
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One Leg: The Life and Letters of Henry William Paget, First Marquess of Anglesey, K.G. 1768-1854
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was passed in the House of Commons for a monument to be erected to Cadogan in
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was selected by him to proceed to the headquarters of the Spanish general,
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British military personnel killed in action in the Napoleonic Wars
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On 13 July 1813, a motion proposed by the then Foreign Secretary,
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As the result of an adulterous affair between his sister
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Index

British Army
Peninsular War
Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan
Charles Churchill
Robert Walpole
Eton
ensign
by purchase
18th Royal Irish Foot
Gibraltar
Tuscany
60th Regiment of Foot
Coldstream Guards
53rd Regiment of Foot
Curaçoa
71st Highlanders
Peninsular War
aide-de-camp
Arthur Wellesley
Douro
Cuesta
Tagus
Battle of Talavera
Vittoria
Lady Charlotte
Lord Paget
duel
Wimbledon Common
Hussey Vivian
Lord Castlereagh

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