Hugh Halkett
Hugh Halkett (also Baron Hugh von Halkett ; born August 30, 1783 in Musselburgh , East Lothian , Scotland , † July 26, 1863 in Hanover ) was a British - Hanover general.
Life
Hugh Halkett was a son of Major General Frederick Godar Halkett (* 1728 , † 1803 ) and brother of Lieutenant General Colin Halkett . Already in 1798 he joined the Scottish Brigade, which his father helped to build up, and in 1803 he joined the German Legion , the King's German Legion, as captain . In 1805 he became a major in their 2nd light battalion and took part in the expeditions to the Elbe estuary, to Rügen , Copenhagen and Sweden from 1805 to 1808 .
In 1808 he went to Spain with the Carl von Altens Brigade and found himself with the flank division, which covered the same, when John Moore withdrew . 1809 Halkett took part in the Walcheren expedition under Lord Chatham in the siege of Vlissingen .
In the spring of 1811 he went to Spain again, where he took part in the two sieges of Badajoz and in the battles of Albuera and Salamanca . Promoted to lieutenant colonel on September 22, 1812 , he went with reinforcements to General Wallmoden's corps in Mecklenburg in the spring of 1813 and was given command of a Hanoverian brigade with which he defeated the enemy in the battle of the Göhrde on September 16 Center broke through.
In March 1814 he was appointed colonel in the Hanoverian army and commanded the 3rd Hanoverian brigade on the right wing of the battle order in the battle of Waterloo . After repelling the enemy attacks on Hougomont Castle all day, when the army took the offensive in the evening, he advanced and blew up a square of the French Imperial Guard .
Halkett made General Cambronne a prisoner by hand. After the Second Peace of Paris, Halkett stayed with his brigade with the occupation corps in France. Appointed major general in 1834, he commanded the 2nd and 1st Infantry Divisions one after the other. In the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1848 he led the troops of the 10th German Army Corps and defeated the Danes on April 24 at Oeversee . He was then appointed general of the infantry and, after the campaign, the inspector of the entire infantry. In 1862 he was raised to the hereditary baron status.
Awards
Halkett was a holder of high orders, a. a. of the Black Eagle Order , the Pour le Mérite , the Bath Order and the Russian Order of Saint Anne .
literature
- Ernst Julius Georg von dem Knesebeck : Life of Baron Hugh von Halkett, K. Hanoverian General of the Infantry: designed by E. von dem Knesebeck based on the papers and other sources he left behind . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1865
- Mewes: The general rule of Marshal Ney in the Wars of Liberation . With 1 sketch. Capture d. Gene. Cambronne by d. Colonel Halkett in d. Battle of Waterloo . From early v. Halkett, major in the Kgl. Saxon. 10. Inf.-Reg. No. 134. Von Mewes, Oberlt. in Mecklenburg. Field Artillery Reg. No. 60. In: Supplement to the military weekly paper; 1912, 7
- Bernhard von Poten : Halkett, Hugh Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 412-415.
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1914, pp. 198-206
- Louis Heinrich Friedrich von Sichart von Sichartshoff: Diary of the tenth German Federal Army Corps under the orders of the Royal Hanoverian General Halkett during the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein in 1848 . Hahn, Hanover 1851
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Harrison, 1869, accessed August 17, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halkett, Hugh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Halkett, Hugh of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Hanoverian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Musselburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1863 |
| Place of death | Hanover |