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General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer and English aristocrat who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (born August 11, 1772, Hawkstone, Shropshire, England—died December 10, 1842, Hardwicke Grange, Shropshire) was a British general and one of the Duke of Wellington’s chief lieutenants in the Peninsular (Spanish) campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Viscount Hill, of Hawkstone and of Hardwicke in the County of Salop, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1842 for General Rowland Hill.
Rowland Hill, first Viscount Hill, general, was the second son and fourth of the sixteen children of John Hill, afterwards third baronet, of Hawkstone, Shropshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Chambre of Petton in the same county.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. (1772—1842) army officer. Quick Reference. (1772–1842). Soldier. Hill was a younger son of Sir John Hill, baronet, of Shropshire and one of five brothers to join the army. He was wounded near Alexandria in 1801 ... From: Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill in The Oxford Companion to British History »
General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH (11 August 1772 – 10 December 1842) was a British Army officer. He served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828.
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Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill (1772–1842). Soldier. Hill was a younger son of Sir John Hill, baronet, of Shropshire and one of five brothers to join the army. He was wounded near Alexandria in 1801 while serving under Abercromby and was promoted major-general in 1805.