George Charles Hoste
British Army officer (1786–1845) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir George Charles Hoste CB (10 March 1786 – 21 April 1845) was a British Army officer who fought in various battles and engagements of the Napoleonic Wars in Italy, Egypt, Belgium, and France between 1805 and 1815. The third son of a clergyman in Norfolk, he was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1802. He was promoted first lieutenant in the same year, captain in 1812, brevet-major in 1814, lieutenant-colonel in 1825, brevet-colonel in 1838, and colonel in 1841.
George Charles Hoste | |
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Born | (1786-03-10)10 March 1786 Tittleshall, Norfolk, England |
Died | 21 April 1845(1845-04-21) (aged 59) Woolwich, Kent, England |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1802–1825 |
Rank | Colonel |
Battles/wars | |
Spouse(s) |
Mary Burroughes (m. 1812) |
Children | 4 sons, 2 daughters |
In 1805 Hoste went with an expedition under Lieutenant-general Sir James Henry Craig to protect the Kingdom of Naples. He was in the battle of Maida, at the siege of Scylla castle, and in the withdrawal to Sicily. He was afterwards in Egypt, in 1807, under Major-general McKenzie Fraser, and present at the taking of Alexandria, and the failed attack on Rosetta. He then returned to Sicily, served in different parts of that island from 1808 to 1809, and was present at the attack and taking of the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples.
In 1810 he was in the Spartan frigate, under Captain Jaheel Brenton, and distinguished himself during a successful engagement with a squadron of French Neapolitan vessels in the Bay of Naples; for which he received from Ferdinand the Sicilian Order of Merit. He returned to England in 1811. From 1813 to 1814 he served in Holland with Sir Thomas Graham, and was present at the attack on Antwerp and the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom, for which he obtained the brevet rank of major. He returned to England at the peace of 1814, and on the recommencement of the war in 1815 he joined the allied army at Brussels, and in the battle of Waterloo was attached to the Prince of Orange's 1st Army Corps as commanding Royal Engineer.
He was employed on a committee in Canada in 1825, and also in Ireland in 1828. He was made a Companion of the Bath after the battle of Waterloo, and a gentleman usher of the privy chamber to Queen Adelaide in 1830. He died in 1845.