About Frederick Stephenson
Lived 1821 – 1911 (aged 89). Frederick Stephenson was a British military personnel.
General Sir Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson, (17 July 1821 – 10 March 1911) was a senior British Army officer who served as Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding the Home District from 1876 to 1879.
Military career The second son of Major-General Sir Benjamin C. Stephenson, Stephenson was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1837. He fought in the Crimean War and took part in the expeditions to China in 1858 and 1860 during the Second Opium War.
He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of Occupation in Cairo in 1883 during the Mahdist War. He also led the Frontier Force and defeated the Dervish Army at the Battle of Ginnis in Sudan in 1885.
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Who was Frederick Stephenson?
British Army general
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Frederick Stephenson was born on 17 July 1821.
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Frederick Stephenson died on 10 March 1911.
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Frederick Stephenson was a military personnel.
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Frederick Stephenson was British.
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