Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts

Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, was a British field marshal. He won the Victoria Cross during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, became famous for his march from Kabul to Kandahar in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1880 and was commander-in-chief in India from 1885 to 1893. In the Second Boer War he took command in 1900, captured Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria, and proclaimed the annexation of the Boer republics.