About Hugh Gordon
Lived 1760 – 1823 (aged 62–63). Hugh Gordon was a British military leader.
Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay Gordon (1760 – 12 March 1823) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Military career Gordon joined the British Army in 1775 and served in the American War of Independence being taken as a Prisoner of war during the Siege of Pensacola in 1781. He served in the West Indies from 1793 and became Assistant Quartermaster-General in the East Indies in 1798.
He was also Colonel of the 16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment from 1816 to 1823.
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Who was Hugh Gordon?
British Army general
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Hugh Gordon was born in 1760.
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Hugh Gordon died on 12 March 1823.
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Hugh Gordon was a military leader.
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Hugh Gordon was British.
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