Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos
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The Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos took place on 28 October 1811 during the Peninsular War. An allied force under General Rowland Hill trapped and defeated a French force under General Jean-Baptiste Girard, forcing the latter's dismissal by the Emperor Napoleon. A whole French infantry division and a brigade of cavalry were destroyed as viable fighting formations.
"Sketch of the disposition of the allies, under the command of Lieut. Genl. Hill to surprize the enemy...", by William Faden, 1812
Rowland Hill
Side-drums of the 34e Régiment d'Infanterie displayed at Cumbria's Museum of Military Life, Carlisle Castle
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
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General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, was a British Army officer and English aristocrat who served in the Napoleonic Wars as a brigade, division and corps commander. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1828. Well-liked by the soldiers he commanded, he was known as "Daddy Hill".
Lieutenant-General Lord Hill (1819), by George Dawe
Hill ready for the annual Waterloo anniversary banquet at Apsley House (1836)
General Hill in later life, by John Prescott Knight