Captain Sir William Peel VC KCB was a British naval officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Br
Captain Sir William Peel
Sir William Peel by William Theed, 1860, Greenwich Maritime Museum
Statue of William Peel in the Eden Gardens, Calcutta, in the 1860s.
Portrait of William Peel by John Lucas, 1860. It depicts him during the Relief of Lucknow
Siege of Lucknow
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The siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the British Residency within the city of Lucknow from rebel sepoys during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After two successive relief attempts had reach
William Peel (Royal Navy officer)
…accompanied by a young midshipman, Edward St. John Daniel, as Aide-de-camp. After the Crimean War, he served in the Indian Mutiny and was wounded at the Relief of Lucknow. At the age of 33, he died of smallpox at Cawnpore, India, on 27 April 1858. Captain Peel wrote A Ride through the Nubian Desert (1852), detailing his…
7th Hussars, charging a body of the Mutineer's Cavalry in Lucknow
Sir John Eardley Inglis by William Gush
Crossing the Ganges into Oudh