Havelock, Sir Henry

Havelock, Sir Henry

▪ British soldier
born April 5, 1795, near Sunderland, Durham, Eng.
died Nov. 24, 1857, Lucknow [India]
 British soldier in India who distinguished himself in 1857 during the Indian Mutiny.

      Raised in a religious environment, Havelock obtained a commission in the army at age 20, but he spent eight restless years in England while studying military strategy. To join two brothers in India, he changed his regiment and obtained a lieutenancy in the 13th Light Infantry. He served with distinction in the First Anglo-Burmese War (Anglo-Burmese Wars) (1824–26) but in 1838 was still only a captain and had seen commissions purchased over him by five others. He again distinguished himself in the First Afghan War (1839–42) and was made a Companion of the Bath, but only later did he receive a promotion, when serving as interpreter to Sir Hugh Gough (Gough, Sir Hugh) in the 1843 Gwalior campaign.

      Burdened by ill health and the debts of his eldest son, Havelock took two years home leave beginning in 1849. After returning to India, he was promoted to quartermaster general (1854) and then to adjutant general. After sharing in Sir James Outram's Persian expedition of 1857, Havelock returned to India in the midst of the Indian Mutiny and took command of a mobile column. His force was too late and too weakened by casualties to save Kanpur or Lucknow, but his series of victories in July and August brought him acclaim, and in September he broke through on his fourth try to relieve the residency at Lucknow. He was rewarded with knighthood (Order of the Bath (Bath, The Most Honourable Order of the)) and promotion to major general but died soon afterward of dysentery.

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