Archibald Campbell

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Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet GCB (born March 12, 1769 in Glenlyon , Perthshire , † October 6, 1843 in Edinburgh ) was a British general .

Life

Campbell came from a branch line of the Scottish Campbell family . He joined the British Army as an officer in 1787 and served in the East Indies between 1789 and 1792 during the fighting against the Tippoo Sahib , the Sultan of Mysore . On March 31, 1810 , he acquired the rank of lieutenant colonel in an infantry brigade . He took part in the campaigns on the Iberian Peninsula under Lord Wellington . He joined the allied Portuguese army with the rank of brigadier general and was honored for his services in 1813 as commander of the Order of the Tower and the Sword .

From the British side he was ennobled as a Knight Bachelor on April 28, 1814 , promoted to the British rank of Colonel on June 4, 1814 and appointed aide-de-camp for Prince Regent George . On January 2, 1815 he was inducted into the Order of the Bath as Knight Commander .

After Napoleon's dismissal , Campbell remained in Portuguese service as a major general , but in 1820 he resigned from the British service due to political disagreements. He was reinstated here with the rank of Colonel and sent again to the East Indies, where he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1824 and was entrusted to him by the British East India Company in command of the war against Burma . After two years of fighting, he actually forced the Treaty of Yandaboo on February 24, 1826 , by which Arakan and Tenasserim had to be ceded to the company.

These successes have been rewarded. In April 1826 he was promoted to major-general and in 1826 raised to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. In 1827 the British East India Company awarded him an annual pension of £ 1,000 . On September 30, 1831, he received the hereditary title of baronet , of New Brunswick, and a vote of thanks from the British Parliament . He was made governor of the ceded provinces and administered them until 1829 when he returned to Scotland . From 1831 to 1837 he was once again governor and commander of the royal troops in New Brunswick ( Canada ) and proved himself there as a skilled administrative officer during the Canadian uprising. On June 28, 1838 he was promoted to lieutenant general.

On his death in 1843, his son John inherited his title of nobility.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 16355, HMSO, London, March 27, 1810, pp. 461-462 ( PDF , English).
2. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 313.
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 16898, HMSO, London, May 14, 1814, p. 1007 ( PDF , English).
4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 16906, HMSO, London, June 7, 1814, pp. 1180-1182 ( PDF , English).
5. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 224.
6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 16972, HMSO, London, January 4, 1815, pp. 17-20 ( PDF , English).
7. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 185.
8. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18398, HMSO, London, September 21, 1827, p. 1976 ( PDF , English).
9. ↑ entry CAMPBELL of New Brunswick at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18851, HMSO, London, September 16, 1831, pp. 1897–1898 ( PDF , English).
11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 19631, HMSO, London, July 3, 1838, pp. 1488-1489 ( PDF , English).

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baronet (of New Brunswick) 1831-1843	John Campbell