Ormsby Vandeleur
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General Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur was a British Army officer who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur by William Salter
Light Division
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The Light Division is a light infantry division of the British Army. It was reformed in 2022, as part of Future Soldier reforms.
Ormsby Vandeleur
…25 April 1808 was promoted to be brevet colonel. On 4 June 1811 he was promoted to major-general, and appointed to command an infantry brigade of the Light Division in the Peninsular War. Vandeleur led the division, after Craufurd received his mortal wound, to the assault of the breach of Ciudad Rodrigo on 19 January…
1812 illustration of an officer and private of the 52nd Regiment of Foot