Robert Ross

(1766-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ross, Robert, 1766-1814 NRA: Ross Robert (1766-1814) Major General DNB: Ross, Robert (1766-1814), army officer LBT ID: RoRoss1814 VIAF ID: 26318790 LOC ID: n95122488	B/BAP: 1766 DIED: 1814-09-12
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Educated at at Trinity College, Dublin, he fought at Corunna and in the Peninsular Campaign, and commanded the British forces that took Washington in the War of 1812, shortly after which he was killed in action.
REFERENCES TO Robert Ross: Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 24 December 1814 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIX. 1814-1815 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIX Found 1: ¶ 20