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WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835 )

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 599 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835 ) , British field marshal, the son of an Irish country
gentleman
 , was born in County Antrim on the 6th of July 1835. He was educated at Sandhurst, and in 1853 joined the Inniskillings, with which regiment he served in India during the Mutiny in 1857. In the second Afghan War (18788o) he was second in command of the Gordon Highlanders, whom he led in their charge at the battle of Charasiah. For conspicuous gallantry in this action, and again shortly afterwards at Kandahar, he received the Victoria
Cross
 . I,1 1881 he assumed command of the Gordon Highlanders, and took part in the Nile Expedition of 188485. As brigadier in the Burmese War (188587) he rendered distinguished service, for which he was promoted major-general; and when Sir Frederick (afterwards Lord) Roberts returned to India from Burma in 1887, White was left in command of the force charged with the duty of suppressing the dacoits and pacifying the country. This he accomplished with a thoroughness which earned the thanks of the government of India. He was in command of the Zhob expedition in 189o, and in 1893 he succeeded Lord Roberts as
commander
 -in-
chief
  in India; and during his
tenure
  of this office directed the conduct of the Chitral expedition in 1895 and the
Tirah
  campaign in 1897. In the latter year he was made G.C.B. and in 1898 G.C.S.I. Returning to England in 1898 he became quartermaster-generalto the forces; and on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 he was given command of the forces in
Natal
 . He defeated the Boers at Elandslaagte on the 21st of October 1899 and at Reitfontein on the 24th; but the superior numbers of the Boers enabled them to invest Ladysmith; which Sir George White defended in a siege lasting 119 days, from the 2nd of November 1899 to the 1st of March 1900, in the course of which he refused to entertain Sir Redvers Buller's suggestion that he should arrange terms of capitulation with the enemy (see LADYSMITH, SIEGE and RELIEF OF). After the relief of Ladysmith, White, whose health had been impaired by the siege, returned to England, and was appointed
governor
  of Gibraltar (1900-19o4). King Edward VII., who visited the fortress in 1903, personally gave him the baton of a field marshal. In 1905 Sir George White was appointed
governor
  of Chelsea
Hospital
 
    See Also:
, and in the same year was decorated with the Order of Merit.
See T. F. G. Coates, Sir George White (1900).


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