Robert Ross (British Army officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Ross (British Army officer)

Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1766

Place of Birth: Rostrevor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1814

Profession: military officer

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Major-General Robert Ross (1766 – 12 September 1814) was an Irish officer in the British Army, who served in the Napoleonic Wars and its minor theatre, the North American in the War of 1812. Ross enlisted in the British Army in 1789.
He served as an officer in several battles during the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1809, he was sent to serve in the Peninsular War.
He was wounded in the neck at the Battle of Orthez in France on February 27, 1814. Upon returning to duty later that year, Ross was made a major general and sent to North America, where he took command of a British force designated to attack the United States capital of Washington D.C.
during the War of 1812.
Ross's professional soldiers quickly defeated a poorly organized American militia at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, and that evening proceeded to enter Washington.
The British Army burned many important U.S.
Government buildings, including the White House and the Capitol, demoralizing and greatly damaging the American war effort.
Ross then led a British invasion north up the Chesapeake Bay towards the city of Baltimore which culminated in the Battle of Baltimore that September.
On September 12, he was shot while commanding troops at North Point, and died while being moved to the rear.