Clyde, Colin Campbell, Baron, 1792-1863
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- Wikipedia, viewed 19 Jan. 2016(Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde GCB KCSI (20 October 1792-14 August 1863) was a British Army officer. He was born Colin Macliver, in Glasgow. At an early stage of the Indian Mutiny, he became Commander-in-Chief, India and relieved and then evacuated Lucknow. After attacking and decisively defeating Tatya Tope at the Second Battle of Cawnpore, he captured Lucknow again. Whilst still commander-in-chief he dealt with the 'White Mutiny' among East India Company troops, and organised the army sent east in the Second Opium War. He died at Chatham)
- Watson, B. The great India mutiny, 1991:CIP t.p. (Colin Campbell)
- The complete peerage, 1913(Baron Clyde of Clydesdale, Colin Campbell; Colin M'Liver, afterwards known as Campbell; b. 10-20-1792; d. 1863, buried in Westminster Abbey)
- LC data base, 12-21-90(hdg.: Clyde, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron, 1792-1863)
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Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, (20 October 1792 – 14 August 1863) was a British Army officer. After serving in the Peninsular War and the War of 1812, he commanded the 98th Regiment of Foot during the First Opium War and then commanded a brigade during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. He went on to command the Highland Brigade at the Battle of Alma and with his "thin red line of Highlanders" he repulsed the Russian attack on Balaclava during the Crimean War. At an early stage of the Indian Mutiny, he became Commander-in-Chief, India and, in that role, he relieved and then evacuated Lucknow and, after attacking and decisively defeating Tatya Tope at the Second Battle of Cawnpore, captured Lucknow again. Whilst still commander-in-chief he dealt with the "White Mutiny" among East India Company troops, and organised the army sent east in the Second Opium War.
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