Robert Henry Sale
Sir Robert Henry Sale , GCB (born September 19, 1782 , † December 21, 1845 near Mudki , India) also called Fighting Bob , was a British general and led the defense of Jalalabad in the First Anglo-Afghan War .
Life
Robert Henry Sale joined the British Army in 1795 . From 1798 Sale fought in various campaigns in British India . In the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) he led the 13th Regiment of Foot . In taking Rangoon , he personally defeated the opposing commander.
At the beginning of the First Anglo-Afghan War Sale took over command of the 1st Bengal Brigade of the Army of the Indus under John Keane . Sale personally led the troops that stormed the Ghazni fortress at the Battle of Ghazni . After the Army of the Indus took Kabul in 1839 , most of the troops returned to India. Sale stayed in Afghanistan and was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) .
After soldiers of the 35th Native Infantry were attacked at the Khoord Kabul Pass in October 1841 , a brigade under Sale, consisting mainly of his 13th Regiment of Foot , was moved to Jalalabad to secure the route to India. After the loss-making retreat of the Kabul garrison under General Elphinstone , Jalalabad was besieged by the troops of Mohammed Akbar . His wife Florentia Sale and their daughter also took part in the retreat from Kabul. Both were handed over to the Afghans as hostages.
Sale held out from November 12, 1841 to April 8, 1842 during the siege of Jalalabad with 1,500 men 5,000 Afghans. After receiving the false news of the annihilation of the Relief Army from George Pollock , Sale went on a sortie on April 7th and drove out the besiegers. A week later, Pollock arrived in Jalalabad. Sale was then elevated to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and salutes were fired in all major garrisons in India.
Sale and Pollock's troops marched into Kabul and retook the city. Sale was then able to personally free his wife and daughter.
In 1845 Sale led a brigade under Lieutenant General Hugh Gough in the First Sikh War . In the battle of Mudki he was fatally wounded on December 18, 1845 and died a few days later.
The town of Sale, founded in 1851 in the British colony of Victoria, was named after him in honor of Sales . From 1843 to 1846 he was Colonel of the Regiment of The 13th (1st Somersetshire) Prince Albert's Light Infantry .
literature
- Philip J. Haythornthwaite: The Colonial Wars Source Book . ISBN 978-1-85409-436-0
- John Duncan: Heroes for Victoria, 1837-1901: Queen Victoria's Fighting Forces . ISBN 978-0-946771-38-7
- Robert Hamilton Vetch: Sale, Robert Henry . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 50: Russians - Scobell. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, pp 181 - 189 (English).
- James Lunt: Sale, Sir Robert Henry (1782-1845). 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
- Sale, Sir Robert Henry . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 24 : Sainte-Claire Deville - Shuttle . London 1911, p. 61 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Lady Sale and Mistress Noble or Afghans and Chinese . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 13 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig September 23, 1843, p. 203-204 ( books.google.de ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sale, Robert Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sale, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Army Officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1782 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1845 |
| Place of death | unsure: near Mudki , India |