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HENRY HAWLEY (c. 1679-1759)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:HAWLEY (c. 1679-1759)  , See also:British lieut.-See also:general, entered the See also:army, it is said, in 1694 . He saw service in the See also:War of See also:Spanish See also:Succession as a See also:captain of See also:Erie's (the 19th) See also:foot . After Almanza he returned to See also:England, and a few years later had become lieut.-See also:colonel of the 19th . With this See also:regiment he served at See also:Sheriffmuir in 1715, where he was wounded . After this for some years he served in the See also:United See also:Kingdom, obtaining See also:pro-See also:motion in the usual course, and in 1739 he arrived at the grade of See also:major general . Four years later he accompanied Geurse 1I . and See also:Stair to See also:Germany, and, as a general officer of See also:cavalry under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Cope, was See also:present at See also:Dettingen . Becoming lieut.-general somewhat later, he was second-in-command of the cavalry at See also:Fontenoy, and on the 20th of See also:December 1745 became See also:commander-in-See also:chief in See also:Scotland . Less than a See also:month later See also:Hawley suffered a severe defeat at See also:Falkirk at the hands of the Highland insurgents . This, however, did not cost him his command, for the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, who was soon afterwards sent See also:north, was captain-general . Under Cumberland's orders Hawley led the cavalry in the See also:campaign of See also:Culloden, and at that See also:battle his dragoons distinguished themselves by their ruthless butchery of the fugitive rebels . After the end of the " See also:Forty-Five " he accompanied Cumberland to the See also:Low Countries and led the allied cavalry at Lauffeld (Val) .

He ended his career as See also:

governor of See also:Portsmouth and died at that See also:place in 1759 . See also:James See also:Wolfe, his See also:brigade-major, wrote of General Hawley in no flattering terms . " The troops dread his severity, hate the See also:man and hold his military knowledge in contempt," he wrote . But, whether it be true or false that he was the natural son of See also:George II., Hawley was always treated with the greatest favour by that See also:king and by his son the duke of Cumberland .

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