Charles Ash Windham

Sir Charles Ash Windham
General Sir Charles Ash Windham
Born	10 October 1810 Felbrigg, Norfolk
Died	Jacksonville, Florida
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Rank	General
Battles / wars	Crimean War

General Sir Charles Ash Windham (10 October 1810 – 2 February 1870) was a British Army officer and Liberal Party politician.

Military career

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826. He led the attack during the Battle of the Great Redan during the Crimean War: the correspondent of the Times claimed that in so doing he had "saved the honour of the army." He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.

Windham became Member of Parliament for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859. Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867. Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.

Further reading

• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Windham, Charles Ash" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Charles Ashe Windham: A Norfolk Soldier (1810-1870) by H.O. Mansfield. 1973
• The Crimean diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny, and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell ; the whole edited by Hugh Pease (1897)

External links

• Works by or about Charles Ash Windham at the Internet Archive
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by General Charles Windham