Edward Paget

General Sir Edward Paget GCB (3 November 1775 – 13 May 1849) was a British Army officer.He served in the British Army during the Peninsular War commanding the reserve at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 and then conducting the advance to Oporto in 1809, during which he lost his right arm.[2] He was second in command under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1811[2] and was captured by French cavalry in 1812 and kept a prisoner for two years until the end of the War.[2] His eldest brother Henry William, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (1768–1854), was in 1815 created Marquess of Anglesey and is best remembered for leading the charge of the heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo.His war services are as follows: —Holland, Nimeguen, Gueldermalsen, 1794-5; Cape St. Vincent, 1797 Minorca, 1798 ; Egypt, three actions, wounded, 1801 ; Bremen, 1805 ; Sicily, 1806-7 ; Sweden and Portugal, 1808 ; Corunna and Passage of the Douro, lost right arm, 1809; Second-in-Command to Wellington, Retreat from Burgos, taken prisoner, 1812.
The capture of General Edward Paget by the French, 17 November 1812
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