Robert Henry Dick

This article is about Major General Robert Henry Dick. For the physicist, see Robert Henry Dicke .

Robert Dick

Sir Robert Henry Dick KCB , KCH (* around 1785 in British India , †  February 10, 1846 in Sobraon ) was a British major general.

Life

Dick was born the son of a doctor in British India around 1785 and joined the army on November 22, 1800 as an ensign. On June 27, 1802 he was promoted to lieutenant and on April 17, 1804 to captain.

In 1806 he took part in the British intervention in Sicily and was wounded in the Battle of Maida . In 1807 he fought during the Alexandria expedition under General Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser and was wounded again at Rosette .

On April 24, 1808, Dick was made a major. In June 1809 he moved to Portugal, where he took part in the Spanish campaign in the battles of Buçaco , Torres Vedras , Fuentes de Oñoro , Ciudad Rodrigo , Salamanca and the siege of Burgos . For his services he was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on October 8, 1812 and was accepted as a Companion in the Bath Order. After the First Peace of Paris , Dick was transferred to Flanders in 1815 .

During the hundred days Dick took in Brussels on Duchess of Richmond's ball part and was out in the day Battle of Quatre Bras badly wounded but still fought in the Battle of Waterloo . For his bravery at Waterloo, he was promoted retrospectively to June 18, 1815 to full lieutenant colonel.

On May 27, 1825 he became a colonel and was soon afterwards placed on half pay. In 1832 he became a commander in the Guelph Order (KCH). On January 10, 1837, he was promoted to major general and received the appointment of Knight Commander in the Bath Order the following year. From 1838 Dick served on various general posts in British India. After the outbreak of the First Sikh War , he succeeded General John McCaskill, who was killed in the Battle of Mudki, as commander of the 3rd Infantry Division. It was only used on February 10, 1846 in the Battle of Sobraon , the last battle of the war.

Here he led the main attack on the left flank and was fatally wounded. Dick passed away at 6 p.m. that evening and was buried in Firozpur the next day .

literature

• Henry Morse Stephens:  Dick, Robert Henry . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 15:  Diamond - Drake. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London, 1888, pp 16 - 18 (English).
• HM Stephens: Dick, Sir Robert Henry (bap. 1786, d. 1846). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004 (rev. James Lunt).