Hugh Halkett

Hugh Halkett (also Baron Hugh Halkett of; born August 30, 1783 in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, † July 26, 1863 in Hannover ) was a British- Hanoverian general. He was the owner of a high order, inter alia, of the Black Eagle, the Pour le Mérite, the Bath Order and of the Russian Order of St. Anne.

Halkett was the son of Major General Frederick Godar Halkett (* 1728, † 1803) and brother of Lieutenant-General Colin Halkett. He came already in 1798 by his father built with Scottish Brigade and in 1803 as a captain in the German Legion, the King's German Legion. In 1805 he was a Major in the 2nd Light Battalion 1805-1808 and took part in the expeditions to the Elbe estuary, to Rügen, Copenhagen and Sweden.

In 1808 he went with the brigade Carl von Alten to Spain and was at the bold retreat John Moores at the flank division, which revealed the same. 1809 Halkett took in the Scheldt expedition under Lord Chatham at the siege of Flushing in part.

In the spring of 1811 but he again went to Spain, where he took part in the siege of Badajoz, and twice in the battles of Albuera and Salamanca. On September 22, 1812 promoted to lieutenant colonel, he came to pass in the spring of 1813 with reinforcements to the corps of General Wallmoden to Mecklenburg and got here the command of a Hanoverian Brigade, with which he the enemy on 16 September in the Battle of the Goehrde center broke through.

In March 1814, he was appointed colonel in the Hanoverian army and commanded at the Battle of Waterloo the 3rd Hanoverian Brigade on the right wing of the battle. After he refused heroically all day the enemy's attacks on Castle Hougomont, he urged, as the evening the army took the offensive, before and blew up a square of the Imperial Guard ( Imperial Guard ).

Halkett made ​​this General Cambronne by hand to the prisoner. After the Second Peace of Paris Halkett was left with his brigade at the Occupation Corps in France. 1834 appointed Major General, he commanded successively the 2nd and 1st Infantry Division. In the German -Danish War of 1848, he led the troops of the 10th German Army Corps and beat the Danes April 24 at Oeversee and became the general of the infantry, after the campaign but was appointed inspector of the entire infantry, and collected in 1862 in the hereditary baron.