Resultado da Busca
Major-General Sir George Cathcart GCB (12 May 1794 – 5 November 1854) was a British general and diplomat. Military career. He was born in Renfrewshire, son of William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart. After receiving his education at Eton and in Edinburgh, he was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1810.
Sir George Cathcart GCB (12 de maio de 1794 – 5 de novembro de 1854) foi um general e diplomata britânico. Nasceu em Renfrewshire , filho de William Cathcart , 1.º Earl Cathcart. Depois de estudar no Eton College e em Edimburgo, ingressou no exército em 1810.
By David A. Norris. As the Battle of Inkerman veered into chaos, British Maj. Gen. George Cathcart stepped into the role of a line officer, leading several hundred men to cut into the flank of an approaching Russian column. Their success lasted only moments.
- Background
- Prelude
- Battle
- Aftermath
- References
Foundation of the Basuto State
During the early 19th century, a diverse group of Sotho, Nguni and Tswana speaking tribes settled in the Caledon River region in southern Africa. The latter two formed the minority of the population and were gradually assimilated by the culturally dominant Sotho. King Moshoeshoe I united the various Sotho speaking chieftainships into a single nation during a period of political turbulence known as Lifaqane. By approximately 1828, Moshoeshoe's act had transformed the denigratory exonym of Soth...
Basuto-British Relations
In 1843, Moshoeshoe signed a treaty with the governor of the British Cape Colony, Sir George Napier, whereby the British recognized the Basuto as their allies. The Basuto were tasked with countering Boer incursions into the Cape during the course of the Great Trek, receiving an annual grant of £75 in money or ammunition. In 1845, Napier's successor Sir Peregrine Maitland signed another treaty with Moshoeshoe which intended to settle territorial conflicts between the Boers and various African...
Having largely suppressed Xhosa opposition in the east, in late November 1852 Cathcart led an army numbering some 2,500 men from Burgersdorp northwards. The force consisted of infantry detachments of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot, the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot, the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot, the 74th (Highland) R...
At dawn on 20 December, the British crossed the Caledon and began their push on Thaba Bosiu. The Basuto were shocked by the British advance and believed that they had been deliberately misled by Cathcart. The herds around Thaba Bosiu were driven away, guarded by the tribe's infantry; while the cavalry regiments prepared for battle. Napier's column ...
The British had rounded up over 5,000 head of cattle along with numerous other animals. The Basuto thought their cause to be lost, Letsie urged his father to sue for peace, while others suggested a retreat to the Maloti Mountains. Cathcart likewise did not expect the Basuto to showcase such determined resistance. His force was short on ammunition a...
Atmore, Anthony; Sanders, Peter B. (1971). "Sotho Arms and Ammunition in the Nineteenth Century". The Journal of African History. Cambridge University Press. 12 (4): 535–544. doi:10.1017/S002185370...Machobane, L. B.; Karschay, Stephan (1990). Government and Change in Lesotho, 1800-1966: A Study of Political Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-51570-9.Rosenberg, Scott; Weisfelder, Richard; Frisbie-Fulton, Michelle (2004). Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-4871-6.Saks, D. Y. (1994). "Botched Orders or Insubordination? The battle of Berea revisited". Military History Journal. South African Military History Society. 9 (6). ISSN 0026-4016. Retrieved 7 January...- 20 December 1852
- Inconclusive
ir George Cathcart was born on 12 May 1794; he was the third surviving son of Sir William Schaw Cathcart, first Earl Cathcart. George Cathcart was commissioned as a cornet in the Second Life Guards on 10 May 1810 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant into the 6th Dragoon Guards on 1 July 1811. In 1813 he succeeded his elder brother as aide-de-camp and p
The Hon. Sir George Cathcart, fourth son of the first Earl, was a general in the army. The Hon. Charles Cathcart, younger son of the ninth Lord, was a colonel in the British Army and represented Clackmannanshire in the House of Commons. The Hon. Louisa Cathcart, daughter of the ninth Lord, married David Murray, 7th Viscount of Stormont.
Presented a small collection of ethnographic items from Sarawak to the British Museum in 1913 and 1925. Another part of his collection was given to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, but the majority of his collection was bequeathed to the State Government of Sabah, and it became the core collection of the Sabah Museum in Sabah, Malaysia.
![General Georg [sic] Cathcart, 1855 (c) | Online Collection | National ...](https://br.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=George+Cathcart&nojs=1&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&rd=r2&age=1d&nocache=1&th=118.5&tw=81.8&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcollection.nam.ac.uk%2Fimages%2F960%2F87000-87999%2F87049.jpg&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcollection.nam.ac.uk%2Fdetail.php%3Facc%3D1991-04-108--1&size=148KB&name=General+Georg+%5Bsic%5D+Cathcart%2C+1855+%28c%29+%7C+Online+Collection+%7C+National+...&oid=3&h=960&w=662&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.gPl1eiK8CjA__b44WDEqwgHaKv%26pid%3DApi%26rs%3D1%26c%3D1%26qlt%3D95%26w%3D81%26h%3D118&tt=General+Georg+%5Bsic%5D+Cathcart%2C+1855+%28c%29+%7C+Online+Collection+%7C+National+...&sigr=.JNvQPHXNMlx&sigit=AMOJ1kEFP6dO&sigi=KvMwQedXzhKd&sign=3mTKX_ff7XWe&sigt=3mTKX_ff7XWe "General Georg [sic] Cathcart, 1855 (c) | Online Collection | National ...")
