British Soldiers

[Sir] Charles O’Hara (1640? - 1724) 1st Baron Tyrawley, 1706; lieut.-gen. 1st foot, 1688; knighted 1689; served under William III in Flanders; Col. of Royal Fuseliers, distinguished at capture of Vigo and burning of Spanish fleet, 1703; at Guadalajara, 1706; Galway’s second in comm. in Spain, leading left wing at Almanza, wounded; privy councillor; supported Galway against Peterborough; general, 1714; comm. in chief in Ireland, 1714-21. DNB — Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)

The Rt. Hon. James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, PC (1682? - 1773) He was given the rank of field marshal ... he commanded the 7th Regiment of Foot, 4th Dragoon Guards, 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards, 3rd Horse Guards, 10th Regiment of Foot, 14th Regiment of Dragoons, 3rd Regiment of Dragoons, and the Coldstream Guards, successively. This article is from Wikipedia.

James O’Hara [Baron Kilmaine], 1690?-1773 field-marshal, diplomat; wounded Almanza and Malplaquet; col. of royal fusiliers, 1713; Baron Kilmaine of Ireland, 1722; English peerage, 1724; ambassador in Portugal, 1728-41 and 1752-56; in Russia, 1743-45; army promotions, to maj-gen. 1743; gov. of Minorca, 1752-56; Gibraltar, 1756-57; general, 1761; field-marshal and gov. of Portsmouth, 1763; plenipotentiary and general in Portugal, 1762-63.63. DNB — Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)

O'Hara, James (c 1682-1773) 2nd Baron Tyrawley, Field Marshal diplomat 8 records noted at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, England.

Charles O'Hara (1740? - 1802) is best remembered as the British officer who formally surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown. ... Just over a decade later he was taken prisoner by an up-and-coming (but at the time still unknown) French officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. O'Hara is frequently described as a courageous, tenacious and competent officer.

General Charles O'Hara 1740-1802 — 'The Old Cock of the Rock' .

Charles O'Hara, 1740-1802 Early Life: 1740-1778; Revolutionary War: 1778-1782; After the War: 1782-1802.

Charles O’Hara (1740? - 1802) gd. son of 1st Baron Tyrawley; entered Coldstream Guards, of [which] his f. was colonel, 1756; aide de camp to Granby after Minden; quarter-master under Tyrawley, Portugal 1762; commandant at Goree, 1766; comm. brigade of guards in America and wounded at Guilford Courthouse, 1781; captured at Yorktown; promotions; wounded and captured by French at Toulon; Gov. of Gibraltar, 1795-1802; d. Gibraltar; gen. 1798; friend of Walpole; sometime engaged to May Berry ... A portrait, thought to be of Charles O’Hara included in engraving of House of Commons of 1790, now preserved in Bank of Ireland (College Green), Dublin. DNB — Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)

O'Hara's Battery Gibraltar One of two 9.2" guns still in position at O'Hara's Battery Gibralter. This is a Mk X gun on a mark VII mounting and is sited high up on the Eastern spur of the rock overlooking the straits.

Virtual American Biographies: Charles O'Hara Charles O'Hara , British soldier, born about 1730; died in Gibraltar, 21 February, 1802.

Gibraltar A-Z: O’Hara’s Tower and Battery Originally built from 1787-91 on order of one of Gibraltar’s Governor’s who believed, erroneously, that if the Rock was just that little bit higher, his ‘look-outs’ could see the Spanish fleets as they left harbour. The Tower structure was a failure and became known as “O’Hara’s Folly” named after the Governor, General O’Hara. In 1935, the battery was reconstructed.

General Charles O'Hara (1740?-1802) ‘O'Haras Battery’ was named after Lieutenant General Charles O'Hara, Governor of Gibraltar 1787 - 1799. ¦¦Editorial note: O'Hara served in America as brigadier-general from October 1780. He was under the command of Earl Cornwallis who surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, marking the virtual end of the war of American independence (Source: Dictionary of National Biography) ¦¦

O'Hara attempts to deliver Cornwallis's sword to George Washington Liberty! Chronicle of the Revolution Report, Yorktown, Virginia dated October 19, 1781. Quote: "Cornwallis' second-in-command, Charles O'Hara, attempted to deliver Cornwallis's sword to French general, Comte de Rochambeau. But Rochambeau directed O'Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington's own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln".

Actor Peter Woodward portrayed General Charles O'Hara in ‘The Patriot’ (2000) The Patriot Cast: Selected Filmography.

Peter Woodward .... Charles O'Hara IMDb: Cast of ‘The Patriot’(2000).

Brigadier-general O'Hara Reference to O'Hara in report Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. dated York town, Virginia, October 20, 1781. From: A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Province of North America…, by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, pp427-433 (South Carolina Historical Society).

Connell O'Hara (died 1857) served with the the 61st Foot, Gloucestershire Regiment, in India and died during the Indian Mutiny on September 3rd, 1857 (scroll down page or search for O'Hara).

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