About Frederick Horn
Lived 1805 – 1894 (aged 88–89). Frederick Horn was a military leader.
General Sir Frederick Horn (21 June 1805 – 1894) was a senior British Army officer who briefly commanded the 4th Division at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War.
Military career Horn was commissioned as an ensign in the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of Foot on 26 January 1826. He served in India from May 1826 until May 1831 and again from May 1834 to January 1837. He was deployed to Ireland in early 1841 and to Bermuda in November 1841; he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and given command of the reserve battalion of his regiment in April 1846. He was present at the Siege of Sevastopol in winter 1854 and was given command of a brigade in the Highland Division in the Crimea in June 1855.
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