Denis Pack

Major-General Sir Denis Pack (1772?–1823) was a British Officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography

Pack was a descendant of Sir Christopher Packe. He saw service in Flanders in 1794, was on the Quiberon expedition of 1795, and in Ireland of the suppression of the rebellion in 1798.^[1]

He commanded the 71st Foot during the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, was in the Peninsular in 1808, and the Walcheren expedition, 1809, He was promoted to major-general in 1813 and commanded (1810–14) a Portuguese brigade in Spain. He was honoured with a K.C.B. in 1815 and commanded a brigade of Picton's division at the Battle of Waterloo.^[1]

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Pack, Denis". Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome. Cambridge University Press. p. 981. 

Further reading

•  Chichester, Henry Manners (1895). "Pack, Denis". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 25–26.  — a far more detailed biography