Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Officers - 32nd Regiment of Foot Officers, 46th Regiment of Foot Officers, Manley Power (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: 32nd Regiment of Foot officers, 46th Regiment of Foot officers, Manley Power, Frederick Philipse Robinson, John Masters, Harold Bridgwood Walker, John Cliffe Watts, David Willcocks, Wyndham Childs, Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, John Vaughan, Arthur Floyer-Acland, Eric Buller, Richard Trant, Philip Curtis, Johnny Wiseman, Ernest William Lyons Holt, Henry Kitchener, 2nd Earl Kitchener, Samuel Hill Lawrence, John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan, David Tyacke, Henry George Gore-Browne, John Huske, Joseph Wall, Edward Gent, Stafford Floyer-Acland, William Bradshaw, Daril Watson, Henry Watson Powell, Walter Venning, Herbert Augustine Carter, William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford, Andrew Clarke, David Treffry, Roger Neville, Michael Alexander, William Augustus Johnson, Richard Pepper Arden, 3rd Baron Alvanley, John Rowland Smyth, Clement Leslie Smith, William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew, Ralph Cruddas, Philip Howard, Hugh Bellamy, Andrew Martin, Hugh Thornton, George Vaughan Hart, Vyvyan Evelegh. Excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power, KCB, ComTE (1773 - 7 July 1826) was a British military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He is chiefly remembered for leading a brigade of Portuguese troops under The Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War. He is also remembered for jointly causing the removal of Sir George Prevost, governor-in-chief of British North America, for Prevost's refusal to press the attack on Plattsburgh, New York, in 1814, during the War of 1812. After his active military service Sir Manley Power was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Malta. His grandfather, Sir Henry Power, was a captain of the Battle-Axe Guards. His father, Captain Lieutenant Bolton Power, served in the 20th Regiment of Foot and fought in all battles o...