Stapleton Cotton
British politician
Died when: 91 years 99 days (1095 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB GCH KSI PC (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician.
As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803.
He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War.
He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India.In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.
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