3-021-569 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Field Marshal Lord Gough, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Co. 'At thirteen years of age Hugh Gough obtained a commission in his father's regiment...[he served] in the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) in the West Indies, and [was] present at the attack on Porto Rico and the capture of Surinam, and in St. Lucia...in 1809, he was sent to the Peninsula to join the army under the Duke of Wellington...In the battle of Talavera he was severely wounded in the side by a shell while charging the enemy, and had his horse shot under him...he proceeded to India in order to take the command of the Mysore division of the army. Difficulties arose at Canton, which led to the first British war in China; and the army of 4500 effective soldiers was put under Sir Hugh's command...On the conclusion of the Treaty of Nankin, in 1842, Sir Hugh Gough was created a Baronet and invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath. He also received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament and of the East India Company. In August, 1843, [he] was appointed to the post of Commander-in-Chief in India...Sir Hugh Gough's next operations were against the Sikhs in the Punjaub...His crowning victory was at Goojerat, where the Sikh power was finally broken'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.