Henry Warre

Sir Henry Warre
General Warre about 1860
Born 1819
Died 3 April 1898
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1837–1881
Rank Lieutenant-General
Commands held Bombay Army
Battles/wars Crimean War
Second Taranaki War
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Awards Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry James Warre KCB (1819 – 3 April 1898) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Warre's Oregon City 1845

Warre was the son of lieutenant-general Sir William Warre who saw service in the Peninsular War as William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford's aide-de-camp.[1]

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Warre was commissioned into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1837.[2] He became aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Downes Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.[2]

In 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission with Mervin Vavasour to the Oregon Country to prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory.[2] During the trip he made paintings and sketches of the region, and reported on possible military preparations.[3]

Warre commanded the 57th Regiment of Foot in the Crimean War in 1855.[2] Later he led his regiment in the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand in Spring 1865, seizing Māori land on the north Taranaki coast and establishing posts from Pukearuhe, 50 km north of New Plymouth, to Opunake, 80 km south of the town.[4] He became Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1878 and served in that role during the Second Anglo-Afghan War[5] until he retired in 1881.[6]

Warre was also a talented artist and published two books of sketches from his journeys: 'Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory' (1848)[7] and 'Sketches in the Crimea' (1856).[8]

References

  1. ↑  Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1899). "Warre, William". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Warre, Henry James
  3. ↑ Joseph Schafer, “Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour’s Military Reconnoissance in Oregon, 1845-6,” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March, 1909), pp. 1-99.
  4. ↑ James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Vol II, Chapter 5, 1922
  5. ↑ National Archives
  6. ↑ The India List and India Office List
  7. ↑ Warre, Sir Henry (1848). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. Dickinson & Company.
  8. ↑ Warre, Sir Henry (1856). Sketches in the Crimea. Oxford University.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Charles Staveley		 C-in-C, Bombay Army
1878–1881		 Succeeded by
Sir Arthur Hardinge
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