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Edward Paget

General Sir Edward Paget GCB (1775–1849) was a British Army officer.
==Career==
Born the fourth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Edward Paget became a cornet in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1792. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvon Boroughs from 1796 to 1806.
He served in the British Army during the Peninsular War commanding the reserve at the Battle of Corunna in 1809 and then conducting the advance to Oporto in 1809.〔(Survey of London, volume 11, edited by Walter H. Godfrey (editor), Published 1927 )〕
He was second in command under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1811〔 and was captured by French cavalry in 1812.〔(Edwin Bartlett on the capture of Paget and the politics of America, Britain and the Iberian Peninsula )〕
Briefly serving as the Governor of Ceylon in 1822, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India on 13 January 1823 and conducted the Burmese campaigns of 1824 to 1825,〔 relinquishing his role of as Commander-in-Chief on 7 October 1825. In 1826 he was appointed Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.〔 He was also Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1837 until 1849.〔
His eldest brother Henry William, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (1768–1854), was in 1815 created Marquess of Anglesey and is best remembered for leading the charge of the heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo. The third eldest brother, Sir Arthur Paget (1771–1840), was an eminent diplomat during the Napoleonic wars, the fifth, Sir Charles Paget (1778–1839),〔''Burkes Peerage'' (1939 edition, s.v. Anglesey, Marquess of〕 served with distinction in the navy, and rose to the rank of vice-admiral.

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