Major-General Robert Craufurd

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Major-General Robert Craufurd (5 May 1764 – 23 January 1812) was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament (MP). After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, he was given command of the Light Division in the Napoleonic Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington. Craufurd was a strict disciplinarian and somewhat prone to violent mood swings which earned him the nickname "Black Bob". He was mortally wounded storming the lesser breach in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo on 19 January 1812 and died four days later."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'Robert Craufurd', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 30 January 2013, 22:58 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Craufurd&oldid=535...> [accessed 7 February 2013]

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"...major-gen. in the army, commanded the celebrated Light Division in the Peninsula...fallen whilst leading his troops to he assault of Cuidad Rodrigo, for which a monument was erected to him in St. Paul's Cathedral at the national expense."