Stapleton Cotton papers. 1828
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Cotton, Stapleton, Sir, 1773-1865, 1st Viscount Combermere, army officer
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1790 second lieutenant, 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers; 1791 first lieutenant; 1793 joined 6th carabiniers; 1793-1794 served in the French Revolutionary Wars; 1794 major in the 59th foot, then lieutenant-colonel of the 25th light dragoons (Gwyn's hussars); 1799 served in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War; ? 1800 joined the 16th light dragoons; 1800 colonel; 1805 major-general; 1806-1814 MP for Newark; 1808-1809 and 1810-1812 served in the Peninsular War; 1810 commander of the 1st division, th...