Everything about Gen Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham totally explained
General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham,
GCB, (d. October
1900, aged 95) led the
Royal Marines during the
First Opium War, winning the war and
Hong Kong for the
British Empire, when a young captain.
Later in his career, as a General and the
Grand Old Man of the Army,
Queen Victoria twice knighted the General, Knight Commander and Knight Grand Cross in the
Order of the Bath. Stransham was the son of Lt. Col.
Anthony Stransham of the Royal Marines and grandson of
Major Samuel Stransham of the Royal Marines, who planted the British flag on the
Falkland Islands, claiming that island for
King George III.
General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham, K.C.B., (b. 22 December 1805) entered the Royal marines on the 1st January 1823 and saw active service for upwards of 53 years, retiring with the rank of General on the 24th December 1875. Four years after entering the Service he was present as a Subaltern at the battle of Navarino (20th October 1827). Then after various service he went to China, where, from 1840 until the end of the war, he participated in every action of importance in command of the men of his distinguished Corps, was wounded and for his gallantry specially promoted to Brevet-Major on obtaining his company. He was awarded the Baltic medal, having been with "Charlie" Napier in 1854. From 1862 to 1867 General Stransham was Inspector-General of the Corps.
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