George de Lacy Evans

Infobox Military Person
name=George de Lacy Evans
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caption=George de Lacy Evans in 1855
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placeofbirth=Moig, County Limerick Ireland
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allegiance=United Kingdom
branch=British Army
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rank=General
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commands=British Legion (First Carlist War)
British 2nd Division (Crimean War)
battles= the War of 1812 *Battle of Bladensburg *Battle of North Point
nthe Napoleonic Wars
*Battle of Quatre Bras
*Battle of Waterloo
First Carlist War
Crimean War
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laterwork=Member of Parliament

Sir George de Lacy Evans GCB (1787 – 9 January 1870) was a British Army general who served in four of the United Kingdom's wars in the 19th century. He was later a long-serving Member of Parliament.

Evans was born in 1787, in Moig, County Limerick Ireland. Educated at Woolwich Academy he entered the British Army in 1806 as a volunteer, obtaining an ensigncy in the 22nd Regiment of Foot in 1807. His early service was in India, but he exchanged into the 3rd Light Dragoons in order to take part in the Peninsular war. He was sent on the expedition to the United States of 1814 during the War of 1812 under Major General Robert Ross. Evans was quartermaster general to Ross at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, and during the Burning of Washington, as well as at the Battle of North Point on September 12, 1814, where Ross was killed.

Returning to the European warfront with the restoration of Emperor Napoleon I, Evans was present at the battle of Quatre Bras on June 16, 1815 and the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.

Evans commanded the British Legion sent to assist Isabella II of Spain of the First Carlist War. During the Crimean War he commanded the Second division of the British Army.

He served for 30 years as a Member of Parliament for Westminster. Evans died on January 9 1870, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

References

*Adkin, Mark (2001). "The Waterloo Companion". Aurum. ISBN 1-85410-764-X
*Barbero, Alessandro (2005). "The Battle: A New History of Waterloo". Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-310-9
* George, Christopher T., "Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay", Shippensburg, Pa., White Mane, 2001, ISBN 1-57249-276-7
*Spiers, Edward M (1983). "Radical General : Sir George de Lacy Evans, 1787-1870", Manchester, U.K., Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-0929-4
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* [http://www.historyhome.co.uk/forpol/crimea/evans.htm]