General Sir Charles Asgill | |
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 Colourised image of Asgill from a mezzotint of lost original by Thomas Phillips | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 April 1762 London, England |
| Died | 23 July 1823 (aged 61) London, England |
| Political party | Whig |
| Spouse | Jemima Sophia Ogle |
| Relations | Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet and Sarah Theresa Pratviel. |
| Residence(s) | 29 Old Burlington Street, London (1778-1785). 6 York Street, St. James's (1791–1821)[1] |
| Alma mater | Westminster School University of Göttingen |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Great Britain (pre Acts of Union 1800) United Kingdom (post Acts of Union 1800) |
| Branch/service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1778–1823 |
| Rank | General |
| Battles/wars | American War of Independence (1775–1783) Flanders campaign (1792–1795) Irish Rebellion of 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1803 |
General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, GCH (6 April 1762 – 23 July 1823) was a career soldier in the British Army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War he became the principal of the so-called Asgill Affair of 1782, in which his retaliatory death sentence while a prisoner of war was commuted by the American forces who held him, due to the direct intervention of the government of France. Later in his career, he was involved in the Flanders campaign, the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and was Commander of the Eastern Division of Ireland during the Irish rebellion of 1803.