General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson was a British Army officer and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat
Engraving by William Ward after a Henry William Pickersgill portrait, 1819
1821 illustration of Wilson by Richard Dighton
General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, GCB was an Irish soldier and politician. He served for many years in the British Army, most notably as commander in the Egyptian campaign when he
Robert Wilson (British Army officer, born 1777)
…smashed a much larger French force. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1801. That year also saw him serving in Egypt under General Abercromby and later General Hely-Hutchinson as the French were driven out of Cairo and Alexandria. In 1804 he became a lieutenant-colonel in the 19th Light Dragoons. In 1805 as Lieutenant-Colonel…
The Battle of Alexandria by Philip James de Loutherbourg. Following Sir Ralph Abercromby's fatal wound at the battle, Hely-Hutchinson took command of British forces for the remainder of the Egyptian Campaign.