Robert Sale
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Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale
Biography
He entered the
In the
By this time the army had settled down to the quiet life of cantonments, and Lady Sale and her daughter came to Kabul. But the policy of the Indian government in stopping the subsidy to the frontier tribes roused them into hostility, and Sale's brigade received orders to clear the line of communication to Peshawar. After severe fighting Sale entered Jalalabad on 12 November 1841. Ten days previously he had received news of the murder of Sir Alexander Burnes, along with orders to return with all speed to Kabul. These orders he, for various reasons, decided to ignore; suppressing his personal desire to return to protect his wife and family, he gave orders to push on, and on occupying Jalalabad at once set about making the old and half-ruined fortress fit to stand a siege. There followed a close and severe investment rather than a siege, and the garrison's sorties were made usually with the object of obtaining supplies.
At last
Sir Robert Sale was promoted within the Order of the Bath to Knight Grand Cross (GCB); a medal was struck for all ranks of defenders, and salutes fired at every large cantonment in India. Pollock and Sale after a time took the offensive, and after the victory of Haft Kotal, Sale's division encamped at Kabul again. At the end of the war Sale received the thanks of parliament.
In 1845, as quartermaster-general to Sir Hugh Gough's army, Sale again took the field. At Moodkee (Mudki) he was mortally wounded and died on 21 December 1845.
Personal life
Sale married Florentia Wynch, and they had the following children
- Mary Harriet Sale, later married Captain John Elphinstone Bruere, 13th Native Infantry
- George Henry Sale, died young
- Harriet Flora Sale
- Julia Catherine Sale, died young
- Robert Henry Sale, a Colonel in the Indian Army, married Matilda Martha, daughter of Rev. William Holmes, Chancellor of Cashel.
- Caroline Catherine Sale, married Capt. Rowley John Hill, Bengal Irregular Cavalry.
- Julia Elizabeth Sale, married Lieutenant George Dysart, 2nd Native Infantry
- Henrietta Sarah Sale, married Colonel Frederick Brind, Bengal Horse Artillery, who was killed during the Indian Mutiny.
- Alexandrina Sale, married firstly Lt. John Leigh Doyle Sturt, Bengal Engineers. He was killed in the Retreat from Kabul in 1842, and she married secondly James Garner Holmes, Major 12th Irregular Cavalry. She and her second husband were murdered on 23 July 1857, during the Indian Mutiny, at Segowlie.
- Henry Penney Sale, died unmarried at the age of 35
Memorials
The city of Sale, Victoria, Australia, was named after Sir Robert Sale in 1851.
Two successive public houses in
W. L. Walton was a landscape artist, working in London, who exhibited between 1834 and 1855. He made the lithographic plates for General Sale's
Notes
- ISBN 0-9720428-2-2.
- ^ "Lost Pubs of Bolton". Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "W. L. Walton and General Sale's Defence of Jalalbad (c. 1845)". OnlineGalleries. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sale, Sir Robert Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
- George Robert Gleig, Sale's Brigade in Afghanistan (London, 1846)
- J. W. Kaye, Lives of Indian Officers (London, 1867)
- W. Sale, Defence of Jellalabad (London, 1846)
- Regimental History of the 13th Light Infantry.
- Robert Hamilton Vetch, "Sale, Robert Henry" in Sidney Lee (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 50. (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1897)
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