Person:Stapleton Cotton (2)

Name	Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
Gender	Male
Birth^[3]^[1]	14 Nov 1773	Llewenni
Marriage	1 Jan 1801	to Lady Anna Maria Clinton
Military^[1]	22 Jul 1812	Salamanca, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain Combatant of Salamanca
Military`^?`	23 Oct 1812	Combatant of Venta del Pozo
Marriage	18 Jun 1814	to Caroline Greville
Other^[3]	From 1817 to 1820	Governor of Barbados
Other^[3]	From 1822 to 1825	Commander in Chief in Ireland
Other^[3]	From 1825 to 1830	Commander in Chief in India
Military^[3]	1855	Field Marshall
Death^[1]^[3]	21 Feb 1865
Reference Number`^?`		Q607265^?
Reference Number`^?`		Q607265^?

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Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet's insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley's Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable.

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