About Hildebrand Oakes
Lived 1754 – 1822 (aged 68). Hildebrand Oakes was a British military personnel.
Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, 1st Baronet, GCB (19 January 1754 – 9 September 1822) was a British Army officer.
Military career Oakes was commissioned into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1767 and served in the American War of Independence under Lord Cornwallis. He became deputy quartermaster-general in Corsica in May 1794, quartermaster-general in the Mediterranean in June 1794 and quartermaster-general in Portugal in December 1796. and a commissioner of military inquiry in June 1805.
He was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in January 1814 and died in office in that post.
Family On 18 June 1818, Oakes' daughter Antonia married Edward Wildman (1789-1846), the younger brother of Colonel Thomas Wildman.
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British general (1754-1822)
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Hildebrand Oakes was born on 19 January 1754 in Exeter.
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Hildebrand Oakes died on 9 September 1822 in London.
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Hildebrand Oakes was a military personnel.
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