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Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet, GCB (28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860) was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he is also particularly remembered for his role in the Battle of Aliwal, India in 1846, his subsequent governorship of the Cape Colony, and as the husband of Lady Smith.

For other uses, see Harry Smith.

Sir

Harry Smith

Bt GCB

28 June 1787 (1787-06-28)
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain

12 October 1860 (1860-10-13) (aged 73)
London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom United Kingdom

British Army

1805 - 1859

Lieutenant-General

Western District
Northern District

Napoleonic Wars
War of 1812
Xhosa Wars
Gwalior campaign
First Anglo-Sikh War
Battle of Boomplaats

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith (married 1812)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : McNeill, Ronald John (1911). "Smith, Sir Henry George Wakelyn". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 263.

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Harington, Andrew L. (1980). Sir Harry Smith: Bungling Hero. Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers.  0-624-01307-3.

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Harington, Andrew L. (1 June 1974). . Military History Journal. 3 (1). South Africa: The South African Military History Society. ISSN 0026-4016.

"Talk given by AL Harington, Sir Harry Smith and South Africa, 1834-1852"

Heyer, Georgette (1940). The Spanish Bride. London: Heinemann.

Lehmann, Joseph H (1977). Remember you are an Englishman: A Biography of Sir Harry Smith, 1787–1860. London: Jonathan Cape.  022401403X.

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Staff (24 May 1902). (PDF). New York Times.

"Review of Sir Harry Smith's Autobiography"

Urban, Mark (2003). . London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21681-9.

Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters

Vetch, R. H.; Benyon, John (January 2008) [2004]. . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25810. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

"Smith, Sir Henry George Wakelyn [Harry], baronet, of Aliwal (1787–1860)"

The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: , ed. (1898). "Smith, Harry George Wakelyn" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 44–48.

Lee, Sidney

Welsh, Frank (1998). "Chapter 8". A History of South Africa. HarperCollins. pp. 190–194.  0-00-638421-8.

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Works by Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet