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Lieutenant General John Neptune Sargent CB (18 June 1826 – 20 October 1893) was Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements. ==Military career== Sargent was commissioned into the 95th Regiment of Foot in 1844. In 1847 he went to Canton to protect the local factories from violence.〔(John Neptune Sargent at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 He was appointed Adjutant of his Regiment in 1851. He fought in the Crimean War at the Battle of Alma and was wounded;〔 he also fought at the Battle of Inkerman〔 and the Siege of Sevastopol of 1855 where he was again wounded. He also took part in the Second Opium War in 1860, leading a detachment during the storming of the north Taku Forts.〔 He was made Commanding Officer of the 2nd battalion of the Buffs at Malta in 1861 and then of the 1st battalion in England in 1862.〔 In 1864 he took command of the Inns of Court Volunteers, in 1873 he became Commander of a Brigade Depot at Milford Haven and in 1874 he became Commander of a Military Depot in Oxford.〔 He was appointed Commander of British Troops in China, Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements in 1882 and retired in 1890. He was also Colonel of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He lived at Mount Mascal near Bexley in London.〔
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