Everything about George Thomas Napier totally explained
Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier KCB (
30 June 1784 –
16 September,
1855), entered the army in
1800, and served with distinction under Sir
John Moore and the
Duke Wellington in the
Peninsula--and lost his right arm at the storming of
Badajoz.
He became major-general in
1837,
K.C.B. in
1838 and lieutenant-general in 1846. He was governor and Commander-In-Chief of the army in the
Cape Colony from 1839 to 1843, during which time the
abolition of slavery and the expulsion of the
Boers from
Natal were the chief events. He was offered, but declined, the chief command in
India after
Chillianwalla, and also that of the
Sardinian army in 1849.
He became full general in 1854. He died at
Geneva,
Switzerland on
16 September 1855. His autobiography,
Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir GT Napier, was published by his surviving son, General WCE Napier (the author of an important work on outpost duty) in 1885.
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