Charles Shaw Military person

Brigadier-General Sir Charles Shaw (1795—22 February 1871) was a Scottish soldier and liberal, who served in the British Army and in British volunteer forces on the constitutional side in civil wars in Portugal and Spain. He was later a pioneering police commissioner.

Personal facts

Charles Shaw
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1795
Birth place
Scotland , Ayr
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1871
Place of death
Germany , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

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Military person

award
Knight Bachelor
Order of the Tower and Sword
Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand
military operations
Napoleonic Wars
Liberal Wars
First Carlist War
military branch
British Army
Kingdom of Portugal
Auxiliary Legion
military command
Irish Brigade British Auxiliary Legion (Spain)
Leith Shapshooters (Britain)
Manchester and Bolton Police Forces (1839 - 1842)
Scotch Brigade British Auxiliary Legion (Spain)
Scotch Fusiliers (Portugal)

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