General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, was a career soldier in the British Army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War he became the principal of the so-called Asgill Affair of 1782, in which his retaliatory death sentence while a prisoner of war was commuted by the American forces who held him, due to the direct intervention of the government of France. Later in his career, he was involved in the Flanders campaign, the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and was Commander of the Eastern Division of Ireland during the Irish rebellion of 1803.
Asgill's handwriting in 1778: "An Honest Man is the noblest work of God."
Coat of arms of Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet. The motto translates as "regardless of his own interest".
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Field-Marshal the Duke of York, who appointed Asgill as an equerry.
The 85th Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry regiment, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot to form the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1881.
The Battle of New Orleans, at which the regiment carried out a successful attack, January 1815