Henry Hardinge (1785-1856)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/37477
- Name (English)
- Henry Hardinge
- Short name
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
- Year of birth
- 1785
- Year of death
- 1856
- Short Description
- "Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC,  (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington´s ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel´s cabinet. He went on to be Governor-General of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
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