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{{short description|Major General, Governor of Sindh, and Commander-in-Chief in British India (1782-1853)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[General]]
| name = Sir Charles Napier
| honorific-suffix = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath|GCB]]
| image = Charles James Napier by William Edward Kilburn, 1849-crop.png
| imagesize = 250px
| office = [[Commissioners of Sind|Governor of Sindh]]
| term_start = 1843
| term_end = 1847
| monarch = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| primeminister =
| governor =
| governor-general = [[Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough|The Lord Ellenborough]] [[Sir Henry Hardinge]]
| governor_general =
| predecessor = ''New office''
| successor = [[Richard Keith Pringle]] As Chief Commissioner of Sindh
| birth_date = {{birth date|1782|8|10|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1853|8|29|1782|8|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Whitehall Palace]], [[London]], [[England]]
| death_place = [[Portsmouth, England|Portsmouth]], England
| restingplace = [[Domus Dei|Royal Garrison Church]], [[Portsmouth]]
| nickname =
| allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]] / [[British Empire]] [[Image:Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg|22x25px]] [[East India Company]]
| branch = [[British Army]] [[Bombay Army]]
| serviceyears = 1794–1851
| rank = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]
| unit =
| commands = [[Northern Command (United Kingdom)|Northern District]] (1839–1840) [[Commander-in-Chief, India|Commander-in-Chief of India]] (1848–1849)
| battles = [[Peninsular War]] War of 1812 Conquest of Scinde
| awards = [[File:Waterloo Medal BAR.svg|20px]] [[Army Gold Medal]] [[File:MilitaryGSM.png|20px]] [[Military General Service Medal]] [[File:Jellalabad and others BAR.svg|20px]] [[Scinde Medal]]
| relations =
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[[General]] '''Sir Charles James Napier''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|eɪ|p|ɪər}};<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/napier "Napier"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref> 10 August 1782{{spaced ndash}}29 August 1853) was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812 campaigns, and later a Major General of the [[Bombay Army]], during which period he led the military conquest of [[Sindh]], before serving as the Governor of Sindh, and [[Commander-in-Chief in India]].

==Early life==
Charles James Napier was the eldest son of Colonel [[George Napier]], and his second wife, [[Lady Sarah Lennox]], with this being the second marriage for both parties. Lady Sarah was the great-granddaughter of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]]. Napier was born at the [[Whitehall Palace]] in [[London]].

When he was only three years old his father took up an administrative post in [[Dublin]], moving his family to live in [[Celbridge]] in [[County Kildare]], Ireland, within walking distance of Lady Sarah's sister, Lady Louisa Conolly. His early [[education]] was at the local school in [[Celbridge]]. At the age of twelve, he joined the [[33rd Regiment of Foot|33rd Infantry Regiment]] of the British Army in January 1794, but quickly transferred to the 89th and did not immediately take up his commission, but returned to school in Ireland.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=nz4JAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA2|title=Life & Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier Volume I|last=Napier|first=William Francis Patrick|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|location=London|pages=2}}</ref> In 1799, aged 17, he took up active service in the army as aide-de-camp to [[James Duff (British Army officer)|Sir James Duff]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Life & Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, Vol I|last=Napier|first=William Francis Patrick|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|location=London|pages=18}}</ref>

==Peninsular War==
Napier commanded the [[50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot]] during the [[Peninsular War#Napoleon's campaign (October 1808 – January 1809)|Peninsular War]] in [[Iberia]] against [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]. Napier's activities there ended during the [[Battle of Corunna]], in which he was wounded and left for dead on the battlefield. Napier was rescued, barely alive, by a [[French Army]] drummer named Guibert, and taken as a prisoner-of-war. Nevertheless, Napier was awarded an [[Army Gold Medal]] after he was returned to British hands.<ref name="odnb">Ainslie T. Embree, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19748 Napier, Sir Charles James (1782–1853)], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004</ref>

Napier recuperated from his wounds while he was being held near the headquarters of the French [[Jean-de-Dieu Soult|Marshal Soult]] and afterwards [[Michel Ney]]. On 21 March 1809, a British sloop approached [[A Coruña|Corunna]] with a letter for the commandant of the city, requesting information about the fate of Napier on behalf of his family. After an agreement between Ney and Napier, the latter was released on a convalescence leave at home for three months, under parole to return to Ney's quarters wherever he was on the first of July 1809.<ref>Bonnal, Henry (1910). La vie militaire du Maréchal Ney, duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moskowa.</ref>

Napier volunteered to return to the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in 1810 to fight again against Napoleon in [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]], notably in the [[Battle of the Côa]], where he had two horses shot out from under him, in the [[Battle of Bussaco]], in the [[Battle of Fuentes de Onoro]], and in the [[Battle of Badajoz (1812)]] (the second siege of Badajoz) in [[Extremadura]], Spain, in which he was a lieutenant colonel in command of the [[New South Wales Corps|102nd Regiment of Foot]]. For his deeds at Bussaco and at Fuentes de Oñoro, Napier won the [[Military General Service Medal|silver medal with two clasps]].<ref name=odnb/>

==Bermuda Garrison and American War of 1812==

Napier subsequently served in [[Bermuda]], where the 102 Regiment was posted in 1812 to the [[Bermuda Garrison]], stationed at [[St. George's Garrison, Bermuda|St. George's Garrison]]. Bermuda, part of [[British North America]], was the main base in winter of the [[North America station]] of the [[Royal Navy]], and his brother Henry Napier, at the time a naval lieutenant serving on a frigate that belonged to the station, was frequently in Bermuda. The [[American War of 1812]] commenced with a declaration of war by the United States as the regiment was leaving England. In 1813, Lieutenant-Colonel, Sir [[Thomas Sydney Beckwith]] arrived in Bermuda to command a force tasked with raiding the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, specifically in the region of [[Chesapeake Bay]], with Napier as his Second-in-Command. Beckwith split the force into two brigades, one, composed of the 102nd Regiment, Royal Marines, and a unit recruited from French prisoners-of-war, was under Napier's command, and the other under Lieutenant-Colonel Williams of the Royal Marines. They took part in the [[Battle of Craney Island]] on 22 June 1813. The 102nd Regiment was in [[Maine]] at the cessation of hostilities (the [[Treaty of Ghent]] was signed on 24 December 1814 by the negotiators, ratified by the Prince Regent on 27 December, and by the United States President on 17 February, ending the war).<ref>{{cite book |last=Napier, K.C.B. |first=Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Patrick |date=1857 |title=The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. Volume I (of IV) |location=London, England |publisher=John Murray, Albemarle Street }}</ref>

Napier served as governor of [[Kefalonia]] in the [[Ionian Islands]], and wrote a book about the island. Later he served on a diplomatic mission to Greece during its [[Greek War of Independence|War of Independence]], a conflict in which he had great sympathy for the Greeks. He also wrote two more books on Greece and the Ionian Islands.<ref>[https://eng.travelogues.gr/travelogue.php?view=33&creator=911529&tag=9885 NAPIER, Charles James]</ref>

==Return to England==
In 1835, Napier was designated Governor of the planned new colony of [[South Australia]], but he resigned the position, recommending [[William Light]] for the post. However, [[John Hindmarsh]] had already been lobbying for the position and had gained influential support, and was appointed to it.<ref>{{cite book|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hindmarsh-sir-john-1315|title= Hindmarsh, Sir John (1785–1860))|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|quote=This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966|access-date=19 October 2019}}</ref>

Napier became the [[General Officer Commanding]] of the [[Northern Command (United Kingdom)|Northern District]] in England in April 1839.<ref name=odnb/>

=== Service as General Officer Commanding of the Northern District ===
In April 1839, Napier was put in command of 6,000 troops in the Northern District, with one of his designated tasks being to confront the many [[Chartism|Chartist]] protests active in the area. As a leftist who in principle agreed with the Chartist demands for Democracy, Napier made efforts to keep violence to a minimum and calm tensions in the area as best he could whilst still obeying his orders. Napier privately blamed "Tory injustice and Whig imbecility" for the conflicts, and pitied the Chartists rather than feared them.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzFuDQAAQBAJ|title=The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism|last=Beasley|first=Edward|date=2016-11-03|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781315517278|language=en}}</ref>

==Service in India==
[[File:Charles Napiers Order to storm Amarkot Sindh India 1843.jpg|thumb|Napier's order to storm Amarkot, Sindh (1843)]]
In 1842, at the age of 60, Napier was appointed Major General to the command of the Indian army within the [[Bombay Presidency]]. Here [[Lord Ellenborough]]'s policy led Napier to [[Sindh Province]] (Scinde), for the purpose of quelling the insurrection of the [[Muslim]] rulers who had remained hostile to the [[British Empire]] following the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]]. Napier's campaign against these chieftains resulted in victories in the [[Battle of Miani]] (Meanee) against General [[Hoshu Sheedi]] and the [[Battle of Hyderabad]], and then the subjugation of the Sindh, and its annexation by its eastern neighbours as the [[Sind Division]].<ref name=odnb/>

His orders had been only to put down the rebels: by conquering the whole Sindh Province, he greatly exceeded his mandate. Napier was supposed to have despatched to his superiors the short, notable message, ''"[[Peccavi]]"'', the Latin for ''"I have sinned"'' (which was a pun on ''I have Sindh''). This pun appeared under the title 'Foreign Affairs' in ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' magazine on 18 May 1844. The true author of the pun was, however, Englishwoman [[Catherine Winkworth]], who submitted it to ''Punch'', which then printed it as a factual report.<ref>{{cite web|title=Peccavi |publisher=Encyclopedia of Britain|url=http://www.historyworld.net/Articles/PlainTextArticles.asp?aid=zah&pid=937|access-date=20 December 2015}}</ref> Later, Napier made several comments on the Sindh adventure to the effect of: "If this was a piece of rascality, it was a noble piece of rascality!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/napier.html |title=General Charles Napier and the Conquest of Sind |first=Edward |last=Rice |date=2002-04-19 |publisher=The Victorian Web}}</ref>
[[File:18440518-Peccavi Punch.jpg|thumb|Punch Magazine – 18 May 1844]]

On 4 July 1843, Napier was appointed Knight Grand Cross in the military division of the [[Order of the Bath]], in recognition of his leading the victories at Miani and Hyderabad.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 20239|date= 4 July 1843|page=2246}}</ref> He was also in 1843 given the colonelcy of the [[97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot]],<ref name=regt>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/097-824.htm |title=97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=15 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712212409/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/097-824.htm |archive-date=12 July 2006 }}</ref> transferring later in the year to be colonel of the [[22nd (The Cheshire) Regiment of Foot]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm |title=The Cheshire Regiment |publisher=regiments.org |access-date=11 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231053245/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/022Ches.htm |archive-date=31 December 2006 }}</ref>

Napier was appointed Governor of the [[Bombay Presidency]] by Lord Ellenborough. However, under his leadership the administration clashed with the policies of the directors of the [[British East India Company]], and Napier was accordingly removed from office and returned home in disgust. Napier was again dispatched to India during the spring of 1849, in order to obtain the submission of the [[Sikh]]s. However upon arriving once again in India, Napier found that this had already been accomplished by [[Lord Gough]] and his army.<ref name=odnb/>

Napier remained for a while as the [[Commander-in-Chief]] in India. He also quarrelled repeatedly with [[James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie|Lord Dalhousie]], the [[Governor-General of India]]. The source of the dispute was Dalhousie's behaviour on India's north-west frontier. Dalhousie had requested repeated punitive raids against villagers who had not paid taxes. Napier was opposed to these tactics but accompanied a column of East India Company troops under Sir Colin Campbell and Punjab troops under George Lawrence. The Punjab troops were not under Napier's command and began burning villages on Lawrence's orders. "This was as impolitic as it was dishonourable to the character of British soldiers," protested Napier, "yet no power was entrusted to me, and I had been sufficiently cautioned against interfering with the Punjaub civil authorities."<ref>Napier, C., Defects, p. 91.</ref>

Napier returned home to England for the last time. He was still suffering with physical infirmities which were results of his wounds during the Peninsular War, and he died about two years later at Oaklands, near [[Portsmouth, England|Portsmouth]], England, on 29 August 1853, at the age of 71. However his quarrel with Dalhousie was not over. In his posthumously published ''Defects, Civil and Military of the Indian Government'' (Westerton, 1853) he detected and condemned the growing superciliousness of the English in India towards the Indians; "The younger race of Europeans keep aloof from Native officers … How different this from the spirit which actuated the old men of Indian renown," he wrote. He proposed that British officers should learn the language of the natives and that native officers be appointed as ADCs and Companions of the Bath. "The Eastern intellect is great, and supported by amiable feelings", he wrote, "and the Native officers have a full share of Eastern daring, genius and ambition; but to nourish these qualities they must be placed on a par with European officers."<ref>Napier, C., Defects, p. 255</ref>

When revolt broke out in 1857, Napier's ''Defects'' was hailed as a prophetic work which correctly identified many of the seething tensions in the sub-continent.<ref>Napier, C., Defects, 250.</ref> The problem was as one of his contemporaries observed "Had he made his representations with sober moderation, eschewing all offensive exaggeration, his warnings and suggestions would have commanded attention. Instead they were pooh-poohed as the emanations of a distempered mind."<ref>Thorburn, S., The Punjab in Peace and War. Blackwood, 1904. p. 155</ref>

Napier's former house is now part of Oaklands Catholic School of [[Waterlooville]]. Napier died on 29 August 1853 and his remains were buried in the [[Domus Dei|Royal Garrison Church]] in [[Portsmouth]].<ref name=odnb/>

==Legacy==
[[File:UK-2014-London-Statue of Charles James Napier.jpg|thumb|upright|The statue of Charles James Napier in [[Trafalgar Square]], [[London]]]]

In 1903, the [[25th Bombay Rifles]] (which as the 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry had formed part of Napier's force in the conquest of [[Sindh]]) was renamed the [[125th Napier's Rifles]]. Since amalgamated, it is now the 5th Battalion (Napier's) of the [[Rajputana Rifles]].<ref>Sharma, Gautam, ''Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army'' (Allied Publishers, 1990, {{ISBN|978-81-7023-140-0}}) [https://books.google.com/books?id=xLrTzZd0j1kC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=%22The+5th+(Napier's)%22&source=web&ots=bLaCC5ZUWm&sig=BTIKbGaeQjWXeD8lZmeCq-XQfmA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result page 99] at books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2008</ref><ref name=empire>[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/125thnapiers.htm 125th Napier's Rifles] at britishempire.co.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2008</ref>

A bronze in honour of Napier by [[George Gamon Adams]] (1821–1898) surveys from its plinth the southwest corner of [[Trafalgar Square]], while a marble stands in the Crypt of [[St. Paul's Cathedral]]. In his bronze, he is shown bareheaded, in military uniform, with his cloak thrown back. His left hand is grasping his sword by the scabbard and raised above his waist, while his right, extended, holds a scroll symbolic of the government awarded to [[Scinde]] during his tenure of office. The monument was erected without ceremony on 26 November 1855 and paid for by means of public subscriptions, the most numerous contributors being private soldiers.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blackwood|first1=John|title=London's Immortals: The Complete Outdoor Commemorative Statues|date=1989|publisher=Savoy Press|isbn=0-9514296-0-4|pages=256–257}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/napier.html "SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER (1782–1853)"]</ref>

Some controversy was raised in October 2000 when [[Ken Livingstone]], the newly elected mayor of London, requested that the statue of Napier and that of [[Henry Havelock|Major General Sir Henry Havelock]] be moved to less prominent positions, stating as his reason "I have not a clue who two of the generals there are or what they did", but these requests did not result in any action.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kelso|first=Paul|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/20/london.politicalnews|title=Mayor attacks generals in battle of Trafalgar Square|date=2000-10-20|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-03-17|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

His remains lie in the now-ruined [[Domus Dei|Royal Garrison Church]], [[Portsmouth]]. His tomb is immediately outside the west door of the church. A loose plaque in the church is thought to have indicated the burial place of Napier, inside what is now the west wall.<ref name=napport>[http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/napier_c.htm Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth: "Royal Garrison Church – General Sir Charles James Napier G.C.B."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040905142913/http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/napier_c.htm |date=5 September 2004 }}</ref>

The city of [[Napier, New Zealand|Napier]] in the [[Hawke's Bay]] region of [[New Zealand]] is named after him.{{sfn|Reed|2010|p=266}} The suburb of Meeanee commemorates his victory in the [[Battle of Miani]].{{sfn|Reed|2010|p=249}}

The city of [[Karachi]] in [[Sindh]] (Pakistan) earlier had a Napier Road (now Shahrah-e-Altaf Hussain), Napier Street (now Mir Karamali Talpur Road) and Napier Barracks (now Liaquat Barracks) on [[Shara-e-Faisal|Sharah-e-Faisal]]. In the port area, there is also a [[Napier Mole Bridge|Napier Mole]]. In Manora, the [[St. Paul's Church, Manora|St. Paul's Church]], erected in 1864, is a memorial to Napier. [[Karachi Grammar School]] named its second-oldest house "Napier".
There is a residential area in [[Quetta]] named Napier Lines.
The Indian city of [[Jabalpur]] in [[Madhya Pradesh]] state has a neighbourhood called Napier Town.

== Bibliography ==

*''The Colonies, Treating of their Value Generally, of the Ionian Islands Particularly and Including Strictures on the Administration of Sir Frederick Adam'' (1833)
*''Colonization, particularly in Southern Australia: with some remarks on small farms and overpopulation'' (1835)
* ''Remarks on Military Law, and the Punishment of Flogging'' (1837)
*''A Dialogue on the Poor Laws'' (1838)
*''Lights and Shades of Military Life'' (1840)
*''A Letter to the Right Hon Sir J. Hobhouse, on the Baggage of the Indian Army'' (1849)
*''A Letter on the Defence of England by Corps of Volunteers and Militia'' (1852)
* ''Defects, Civil and Military, of the Indian Government'' (1853)
*''William the Conqueror, a Historical Romance'' (edited by Sir William Napier, 1858)

==See also==
*Colonel [[George Napier]] (1751–1804), his father;
*[[Lady Sarah Lennox]] (1745–1826), his mother;
and his brothers:
*Sir [[George Thomas Napier]] (1784–1855), Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Cape Colony
*Sir [[William Francis Patrick Napier]] (1785–1860), soldier and military historian
*[[Henry Edward Napier]] (1789–1853), naval officer and historian.

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}


==References==
*{{cite book |last = Reed |first = A. W. |author-link = Alexander Wyclif Reed |title = Place Names of New Zealand |year = 2010 |publisher = Raupo |location = Rosedale, North Shore |isbn = 9780143204107 |editor = Peter Dowling}}

==Further reading==
{{wikiquote}}
*{{cite DNB|wstitle=Napier, Charles James|volume=40}}
*{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Napier, Sir Charles James |volume=19 |pages=169–171 |short=1}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040905142913/http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/royal_garrison/napier_c.htm Memorials & Monuments in the Royal Garrison Church Portsmouth]
*{{cite book|last=Butler|first=William F.|title=Sir Charles Napier|year=1890|publisher=Macmillan & Co|location=London|url=https://archive.org/stream/sircharlesnapier00butluoft#page/n7/mode/2up}}
* Napier, Charles, ''Defects, Civil and Military of the Indian Government''. Westerton, 1853.
*{{cite book|first=Adrian|last=Greenwood|title=Victoria's Scottish Lion: The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde|publisher=History Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0750956857}}
*[http://indoislamica.com/pdf/Sketches_in_Scinde.pdf Lieutenant William Edwards of the 86th Regiment and his 'Sketches in Scinde'], An essay about an important collection of illustrations by Napier's aide-de-camp Edwards (published London, 1846).
*{{cite book|first=Priscilla|last=Napier|author-link=Priscilla Napier|title=I Have Sind. Charles Napier in India: 1841-1844|publisher=Michael Russell|year=1990|isbn=0-85955-163-6}}
*{{cite book|first=Priscilla|last=Napier|author-link=Priscilla Napier|title=Raven Castle. Charles Napier in India: 1844-1851|publisher=Michael Russell|year=1991|isbn=0-85955-175-X}}

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