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1ST VISCOUNT See also: British general, was See also: born on the 27th of See also: July 1744
.
He entered the See also: foot See also: guards in 1758, becoming See also: lieutenant (captain in the army) 1762, captain (lieut.-colonel) in 1776, major 1784, and lieut.-colonel in 1792, by which See also: time he was a general officer in the army
.
He served with his regiment in See also: Germany in 176o-1762 and with a composite See also: battalion in the See also: Yorktown See also: campaign of 1781
.
After this he was equerry to the See also: prince of See also: Wales, afterwards See also: George IV
.
In 1790 he became a major-general, and in 1793 was appointed to command the Guards Brigade in the duke of See also: York's army in See also: Flanders
.
He was in command at the brilliant affair of Lincelles, on the 18th of See also: August 1793, and served on the continent (except for a See also: short time when seriously See also: ill) until See also: April 1794
.
He had now sold his lieut.-colonelcy in the guards, and had become colonel of the 53rd foot and governor of See also: Limerick
.
In 1797 he was promoted lieut.-general
.
In the following See also: year the Irish See also: rebellion broke out
.
Lake, who was then serving in See also: Ireland, succeeded See also: Sir See also: Ralph Abercromby in command of the troops in April 1798, issued a proclamation ordering the surrender of all arms by the See also: civil population of See also: Ulster, and on the 21st of See also: June routed the rebels at See also: Vinegar See also: Hill (near
See also: Enniscorthy, Co
.
See also: Wexford)
.
He exercised See also: great, but perhaps not unjustified, severity towards all rebels found in arms
.
See also: Lord Cornwallis now assumed the chief command in Ireland, and in August sent Lake to oppose the French expedition which landed at See also: Killala See also: Bay
.
On the 29th of the same See also: month Lake arrived at See also: Castlebar, but only in time to witness the disgraceful rout of the troops under General Hely-See also: Hutchinson (afterwards 2nd See also: earl of Donoughmore); but he retrieved this disaster by compelling the surrender of the French at Ballinamuck, near Cloone, on the 8th of See also: September
.
In 1799 Lake returned to See also: England, and soon after-wards obtained the command in chief in See also: India
.
He took over his duties at See also: Calcutta in July 18o1, and applied himself to the improvement of the See also: Indian army, especially in the direction of making all arms, See also: infantry, cavalry and artillery, more See also: mobile and more manageable
.
In 1802 he was made a full general
.
On the outbreak of war with the Mahratta confederacy in 1803 General Lake took the See also: field against Sindhia, and within two months defeated the
See also: Mahrattas at Coel, stormed Aligahr, took See also: Delhi and See also: Agra, and won the great victory of See also: Laswari (See also: November 1st, 1803), where the power of Sindhia was completely broken, with the loss of See also: thirty-one disciplined battalions, trained and officered by Frenchmen, and 426 pieces of ordnance
.
This defeat, followed a few days later by Major-General Arthur Wellesley's victory at See also: Argaum, compelled Sindhia to come to terms, and a treaty with him was signed in See also: December 18o3
.
Operations were, however, continued against his confederate, See also: Holkar, who, on the 17th of November 1804, was defeated by Lake at Farrukhabad
.
But the fortress of Bhurtpore held out against four assaults early in 18o5, and Cornwallis, who succeeded Wellesley as governor-general in July of that year—superseding Lake at the same time as See also: commander-in-chief—determined
to put an end to the war
.
But after the See also: death of Cornwallis in See also: October of the same year, Lake pursued Holkar into the See also: Punjab and compelled him to surrender at See also: Amritsar in December 1805
.
Wellesley in a despatch attributed much of the success of the war to Lake's " matchless energy, ability and valour." For his services Lake received the thanks of parliament, and was rewarded by a See also: peerage in September 1804
.
At the conclusion of the war he returned to England, and in 1807 he was created a viscount
.
He represented See also: Aylesbury in the See also: House of See also: Commons from 1990 to 1802, and he also was brought into the Irish parliament by the See also: government as member for See also: Armagh in 1799 to See also: vote for the Union
.
He died in See also: London on the loth of See also: February 1808
.
See H
.
Pearse, Memoir of the See also: Life and Services of Viscount Lake (London, 19o8); G
.
B
.
See also: Malleson, Decisive Battles of India (1883) ; J, See also: Grant
See also: Duff, See also: History of the Mahrattas (1873) ; short memoir in From See also: Cromwell to Wellington, ed
.
Spenser See also: Wilkinson
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