Charles Ash Windham

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Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826.{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/windham_charles_ash_9E.html|title=Charles Ash Windham|publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|accessdate=30 August 2015}} Windham married Marianne Catherine Emily Beresford, daughter of Admiral Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet, on 1 March 1849.

He led the charge on the Great Redan to the south of the Malakoff redoubt at Sevastopol on 8 September 1855 during the Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War. William Howard Russell, the correspondent of The Times, claimed that in doing so Windham had "saved the honour of the army." He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.{{Cite book |last=Windham |first=Sir Charles Ash |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3N3uhfswSFYC&dq=info:x5jJ-ILM0VEJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PA1 |title=The Crimean Diary and Letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: With Operations Upon His Services During the Indian Mutiny and an Introduction by Sir William Howard Russell |date=1897 |publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner |language=en}}

The Windham family were lords of the manor of Metton, Norfolk. Windham became a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859.{{rayment-hc|n|2|date=June 2014}}

Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867.

Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZlQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209 |title=Obituary: Sir Charles Ash Windham |year=1870 |publisher= The Illustrated London News, Volume 56}}

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• {{cite DNB|wstitle=Windham, Charles Ash|volume=62}}
• Charles Ashe Windham: A Norfolk Soldier (1810-1870) by H.O. Mansfield. Terence Dalton Publishing, 1973
• [https://archive.org/stream/crimeandiaryand00windgoog#page/n11/mode/2up The Crimean diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny, and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell; the whole edited by Hugh Pearse] (1897)

• {{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles Ash Windham}}
• {{Hansard-contribs | general-charles-windham | General Charles Windham}}

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