Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-10
A BRITISH VETERAN GONE.
Field Marshal Hugh Lord Viscount Cough
K. P. g. G, B. G.. c. g.. /.
From the New York Herald. ath.l

From the New York Herald, sth.]
Our cable dispatches this morning
announce the death of distinguished
Irish veteran, Hugh Lord Viscount
Gough--a soldier of hundred fights,
always gallant, though not always uni
formly successful as a leader. Almost
ninety years of age at his death, and
living in retirement on his Irish estates
for twenty years past, his history appears
now to be rather that of contemporary
of Give and Hastings than that of one
whom not few of our readers can re-
member as being for time the center OF
the anxiety, if not the destinies, of an
Empire. A native of the south of Ire
land-born near Limerick, in l779-
young Cough entered the British army
in 1895, being then but barely fifteen
years old. The circumstances OF the
time called him at once into active
service abroad, and in the following
year he was present at the capture OF
the Cape of Good Hope and of the
Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay. For some
fifteen years subsequently, be faced bull
let's and yellow Jack in the West
Indies. la 1909 he tsok part in the ac-
tive operations against the French in the
Peninsula, commanding the gallant
Eighty-seventh in several severe engage
ments. For his galantry at Talavers
he received decoration. At Barossa,
the Eighty-seventh captured, after a
bloody contest, the eagle of the French
Eighth, and at Vittoria Marshal Jour-
dams baton was trophy of their prowess
and their leaders gallantry. Ia the
operations against Cadiz and Tarifa, and
ia the fight of Nivele, he was severely
wounded. Peace being restored in
Europe, the British arms were next en-
ployed in China; and General Cough
led the land attack against Canton. For
his galantry at this assault he received
the Grand Cross of the Bath, and for his
services during the Chinese war of 1912
he was created bsronet. The year fol-
lowing he commanded the right wing OF
the army of Gwsliorf, defeating the Nah
rattas at Mahrsjpore, and capturing fifty
six pieces of artillery. With Sir Henry
Hardinge he did good service against the
Sikhs in the war of l845-46, defeating
them at Moodkee, Ferozeshsh and Sob
raon. His loss at the capture of the camp
of Sobraon was immense, but for his gal
lsutry he was created Baron in the
Irish Peerage. The second campaign
against the Sikhs was not as successful.
Carelessness and mismanagement pro-
duced disastrous results during his march
into the Pupjsub. Victories, which we're
worse than ordinary defeats, marked his
career at Mamnuggsr aud Chillian-Wal-
lab. For this last action he was super
seded in his command, but before the
orders had arrived from EOgland he had
retrieved, in a degree, his fame by the
victory of Guzerat. Yielding the cou-
mantl of the forces to Sir Charles Napier,
he returned to England, and was created
Viscount In addition, he received pen
sion of $4,000 from the East India Com
pany, the thanks of Parliament, and, by
vote of the House of Commons, pen
sion of $4,000 for three lives. His minor
honors included three coloneleies and
seat in the Privy Council. He was also
a Knight of st. Patrick, Knight of the
Star of India, and of St Charles of Spain.