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Lieutenant general. Wars. Peninsular War. Sir George Thomas Napier KCB (30 June 1784 – 16 September 1855) was a British Army officer who saw service in the Peninsular War and later commanded the army of the Cape Colony .
28 de dez. de 2020 · NAPIER, Sir GEORGE THOMAS (1784–1855), general and governor of the Cape of Good Hope, second son by his second wife of Colonel George Napier [q. v.], was born at Whitehall, London, on 30 June 1784.
He became major-general in 1837, KCB in 1838 and lieutenant-general in 1846. He was governor and Commander-In-Chief of the army in the Cape Colony from 1839 to 1843, during which time the abolition of slavery and the expulsion of the Boers from Natal were the chief events.
Colonel George Napier (11 March 1751 – 13 October 1804), styled "The Honourable", was a British Army officer, most notable for his marriage to Lady Sarah Lennox, and for his sons Charles James Napier, William Francis Patrick Napier and George Thomas Napier, all of whom were noted military officers, collectively referred to as ...
George Thomas Napier; Edited by W. C. E. Napier; Book: Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir George T. Napier, K.C.B. Published online: 05 May 2012 Print publication: 08 December 2011, pp 103-159 First published in: 1884; Chapter; Get access
George Napier tells of his early army life, which took him around Europe from Sicily to Sweden to Bordeaux, and writes of his admiration for the Duke of Wellington, hailing him as 'one of the greatest captains that ever lived'.
SIR GEORGE THOMAS NAPIER, GOVERNOR– (continued) George McCall Theal; Book: History of South Africa since September 1795; Online publication: 05 March 2012; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783227.010
