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Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

1773–1865 · 19th century · Also known as Lord Combermere

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, was a British cavalry commander. He led Wellington's cavalry in the Peninsular War, including at Salamanca in 1812. As Commander-in-Chief in India from 1825 to 1830 he besieged and took the fortress of Bharatpur in January 1826, which had defied Lord Lake in 1805, and was made a viscount. He became a field marshal in 1855.

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
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