Rose, Hugh Henry, Baron Strathnairn Of Strathnairn And Of Jhānsi

Rose, Hugh Henry, Baron Strathnairn Of Strathnairn And Of Jhānsi

▪ British field marshal
born , April 6, 1801, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]
died Oct. 16, 1885, Paris, Fr.

      British field marshal and one of the ablest commanders during the Indian Mutiny (1857).

      Son of the diplomat Sir George Rose, he was educated and received his military training in Berlin and entered the British army in 1820. From 1841 to 1848 he was consul general in Syria. As British liaison officer at French headquarters during the Crimean War, he was present at all the battles of the war and was promoted to major general in 1854.

      At the beginning of the Indian Mutiny, Rose became commander of the Central India force and conducted the most difficult and successful operations of the war. After a series of victories he laid siege to Jhānsi, the principal hostile stronghold of the area, and finally (April 3–4, 1858) overcame the vigorous resistance. Other victories followed. In 1860, as commander in chief in India, he took command of the Bombay army with the delicate task of amalgamating the queen's and the East India Company's forces in that province.

      Returning to England in 1865, Rose became commander in chief in Ireland (1865–70), where he maintained peace and kept the revolutionary Fenians under control. He was knighted (K.C.B.) in 1855, raised to the peerage in 1866, and made a field marshal in 1877. He died unmarried, and the peerage became extinct.

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