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Edward Pakenham
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Edward Pakenham
The Honourable
Sir Edward Pakenham
GCB
(
pro.
pack-en'um) (19 March 1778 – 8 January 1815), was an
Anglo-Irish
Army Officer
and
Politician
. He was the son of the Earl of Longford and brother-in law of the
Duke of Wellington
, with whom he served in the
Peninsular War
. Appointed as commander of British forces in North America in 1814, he was killed in action at the
Battle of New Orleans
.
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