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Sir Hon. Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby was attached to the 12th Light Dragoons were attached to Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur’s light cavalry brigade. At the Battle of Waterloo, the 12th and 16th Light Dragoons were told to charge down the slope, but no further, to support the withdrawal of the Union Brigade of heavy cavalry.
A monumental pillar, since destroyed in a storm, was later erected on the island in his memory. 34. Ponsonby retired from Malta in October 1836, citing ill health. 35 His sudden death in January 1837 occurred at the Wellesley Arms, Murrell Green, near Basingstoke, as he was sitting down to a meal. 36 Raikes reported that ‘the physicians long ...
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Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby; Englisch Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby: 3. Gouverneur von Malta. 1827 -1836: Vorgänger: Francis Rawdon-Hastings: Nachfolger ...
Ponsonby's Column, c. 1860 The plinth of Ponsonby's Column, now near Hastings Gardens Ponsonby's Column , also known as Ponsonby's Cenotaph , [2] was a monumental column in Valletta , Malta . It was built in 1838 as a memorial to Major-General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby , a former Governor of Malta , but it was destroyed by lightning in 1864.
26 de jan. de 2014 · Hastings’ successor was Major General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby (1788-1837) whom although not buried in Malta, was also commemorated in this corner of Valletta, however in quite a ...
