Robert Orme (British Army officer)

Not to be confused with Robert Orme, historian of India.

Joshua Reynolds, Robert Orme, 1756. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London.[1]
The death of General Braddock as imagined in a nineteenth-century engraving[2]

Captain Robert Orme (c. 1725 – 1781/1790) was a British Army officer who took part in the Battle of the Monongahela on 9 July 1755 at the beginning of the French and Indian War, during which he was injured. He served with the young George Washington, with whom he became friends, and soon after his return to England in 1755 was painted by Joshua Reynolds.

  1. ^ Captain Robert Orme. National Gallery. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  2. ^ Major-General Braddock's death at the Battle of Monongahela, 9 July 1755. Canadian Military History Gateway. Retrieved 6 May 2016.