PICTON, SIR THOMAS

PICTON, SIR THOMAS
   British general, born in Pembroke; served in the West Indies, and became governor of Trinidad, also in the Walcheren Expedition, and became governor of Flushing, and in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, where he fell as he was leading his men to the charge (1758-1815).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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