Henry Warre

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry James Warre KCB (12 January 1819 – 3 April 1898) was a British Army officer.[5] He became aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Downes Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.[6] Subsequently, in 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission, riding through the Rockies, with Mervin Vavasour to the Oregon Country to prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory.He led his regiment in the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand in Spring 1865, seizing Māori land on the north Taranaki coast and establishing posts from Pukearuhe, 50 km north of New Plymouth, to Ōpunake, 80 km south of the town.[8] He became Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1878 and served in that role during the Second Anglo-Afghan War,[9] going to the support of Sir Donald Stewart, holding the line of march from the Indus to Kandahar, enabled him to relieve Kabul.
Warre's Oregon City 1845
A self portrait, his hut in the Crimea, before Sebastopol, July 1855.
Camp before Fort Kinburn , Dnieper River, from the Cemetery - 26 October 1855. 9 days after the battle .
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