Old Photograph Colin Campbell 1st Baron Clyde Scotland

Old photograph of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde who was born in Glasgow, Scotland. John, born 20 October 1792, died 14 August 1863, was a British Army officer. After serving in the Peninsular War and the War of 1812, he commanded the 98th Regiment of Foot during the First Opium War and then commanded a brigade during the Second Anglo Sikh War. He went on to command the Highland Brigade at the Battle of Alma and with his " thin red line of Highlanders " he repulsed the Russian attack on Balaclava during the Crimean War. At an early stage of the Indian Mutiny, he became Commander in Chief, India and, in that role, he relieved and then evacuated Lucknow and, after attacking and decisively defeating Tatya Tope at the Second Battle of Cawnpore, captured Lucknow again. He was born Colin Macliver, the eldest of the four children of John Macliver, a carpenter in Glasgow, and Agnes Macliver, née Campbell. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow and at the Royal Military and Naval Academy at Gosport. In 1807 his uncle, Colonel John Campbell, presented him to the Duke of York, who assumed the boy's surname was Campbell and had him enlisted in the Army under that name: the boy subsequently adopted the name for life.



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