Henry Warre

Sir Henry Warre
Born	1819
Died	3 April 1898
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1837–1881
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands held	Bombay Army
Battles/wars	Crimean War Second Taranaki War Second Anglo-Afghan War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry James Warre KCB (1819 – 3 April 1898) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Warre was commissioned into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1837.^[1] He became aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Downes Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.^[1] In 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission with Mervin Vavasour to the Oregon Country to prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory.^[1] Hudson's Bay Company officer Peter Skene Ogden traveled with the British officers and held a low opinion of Warre. In a letter written in April 1846 to Governor Simpson, Odgen complained that Warre was "to the last hour a disagreeable Puppy and at times most disgusting particularly when under the influence of Brandy and Opium."^[2]

Warre commanded the 57th Regiment of Foot in the Crimean War in 1855.^[1] Later he led his regiment in the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand in Spring 1865, seizing Māori land on the north Taranaki coast and establishing posts from Pukearuhe, 50 km north of New Plymouth, to Opunake, 80 km south of the town.^[3] He became Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1878 and served in that role during the Second Anglo-Afghan War^[4] until he retired in 1881.^[5]

References

1. Warre, Henry James
2. Galbraith, John S. The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821 - 1869. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1957, p. 241.
3. James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Vol II, Chapter 5, 1922
4. National Archives
5. The India List and India Office List