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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
Field Marshal
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
(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
.
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