Gage John Hall
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| birth_date =c. 1775
| death_date =18 April 1854 (aged 79){{cite book |title=Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine |date=1899 |publisher=S.C. & L.M. Gould |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSYwAQAAMAAJ&q=Gage+John+Hall&pg=PA28 |access-date=7 February 2021 |language=en}}
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| death_place =near Exeter, Devon
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
| branch =23px British Army
| serviceyears =1783–
| rank =General
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File:Memorial to Gage John Hall in Exeter Cathedral.JPG
General Gage John Hall (c.1775 – 18 April 1854) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Hall was commissioned as an ensign on 29 May 1783.{{cite web|url= http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/069.html|title=Major-General Gage John Hall (1832-1854)|publisher=Queen’s Royal Surreys|accessdate=23 March 2017}} Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1801 and to major-general on 4 June 1813, he served as acting Governor of British Mauritius from November 1817 to December 1818.{{cite news|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mauritius.htm|title=Mauritius|publisher=Worldsstatesmen.org|accessdate=26 January 2013}} He raised the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot in response to the threat posed by the French intervention in Spain, in March 1824. {{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/099-824.htm |title=99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=17 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718030352/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/099-824.htm |archivedate=18 July 2006 }}
Hall was promoted to lieutenant-general on 27 March 1825 and to full general on 23 November 1841.
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