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| birth_date = 2 July 1754<ref name="huguenot">{{cite book |last1=Agnew |first1=David Carnegie Andrew |title=Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Reeves & Turner |page=[https://archive.org/details/protestantexiles03agne/page/127 127] |url=https://archive.org/details/protestantexiles03agne |quote=Forbes Champagné. |accessdate=23 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
| death_date ={{dda|1816|10|23|1754|7|2|df=y}}<ref>''Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987''</ref>
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| placeofburial =Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Mitcham
| birth_place =[[Clonmacnoise]], [[County Offaly]], [[Kingdom of Ireland]]
| death_place = [[Mitcham, London]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lieutenant General Forbes Champagne 1816 |url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/067.html |publisher=The Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association |accessdate=23 June 2018}}</ref>
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| branch =[[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]
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| rank =[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]]
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| commands =[[British Indian Army]]
| battles =[[American Revolutionary War]]
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[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lt.-Gen.]] '''Forbes Champagné''' (2 July 1754 – 23 October 1816) was a British Army officer who fought in the [[American Revolutionary War]] and served as [[Commander-in-Chief, India|Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[British Indian Army]], 1807–11.

==Background==
Champagné was born into a family of [[French Huguenot]] exiles in Ireland,<ref name="huguenot"/> the son of the Very Rev. Arthur de Robillard Champagné, [[Dean of Clonmacnoise]], and Marianne Hamon, daughter of Colonel Isaac Hamon. His paternal great-grandfather was Chevalier Josias de Robillard, Seigneur de Champagné de [[Torxé]], [[County of Saintonge|Saintonge]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Revue de Saintonge & d'Aunis: bulletin de la Société des archives |date=1890 |page=298 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUAYAAAAYAAJ&q=chevalier+de+Champagn%C3%A9+josias&pg=PA298 |accessdate=23 June 2018 |language=fr}}</ref> who fled to Holland after the [[Edict of Fontainebleau]] in 1685,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brady |first1=William Maziere |title=Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross |publisher=Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green |date=1864 |page=[https://archive.org/details/clericalandparo00bradgoog/page/n107 98] |url=https://archive.org/details/clericalandparo00bradgoog |quote=chevalier de Champagné josias. |accessdate=23 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> joining [[William III of England|William of Orange]]'s army. He married Marie de la Rochefoucauld of the [[House of Rochefoucauld|noble house of the same name]]. Their daughter Susanne married Henri de la Motte-Fouqué, baron de Saint-Seurin et de Tonnay-Boutonne, and was mother of [[Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué]]. Their eldest son, Josias de Robillard (Forbes' grandfather), distinguished himself at a young age in service of Major-General Isaac de Monceau de la Melonière, who commanded a regiment of exiles in William's army during the [[Williamite War in Ireland|Irish campaigns]].<ref name="huguenot"/> He married Lady Jane Forbes, daughter of [[Arthur Forbes, 2nd Earl of Granard]].<ref name="burke">{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1845 |publisher=H. Colburn |page=451 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfdRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA451 |accessdate=23 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

Forbes had three brothers: General Sir [[Josiah Champagné]]; Rev. Arthur Champagné, vicar of [[Castlelyons]]; and Rev. [[George Champagné]], Canon of Windsor and Rector of Twickenham. He had six sisters, including Jane, who married the [[Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (second creation)|Earl of Uxbridge]]; Henrietta, wife of [[Borrowes baronets|Sir Erasmus Dixon Borrowes, 6th Baronet]]; and Marianne, wife of [[Des Voeux baronets|Sir Charles des Voeux, 1st Baronet]].<ref name="huguenot"/><ref name="burke"/>

==Military career==
Champagné was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[4th Regiment of Foot]] in 1773.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=11364|page=1|date=22 June 1773}}</ref> He served in the [[Southern Colonies]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/revwar/educational_resources/southern_campaigns_research/sc_revwar_phaseIII.pdf Southern Campaigns in the Revolutionary War]</ref> and took part in the [[Battle of Wetzell's Mill]] in 1781.<ref>[http://www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_weitzells_mill.html The American Revolution in North Carolina]</ref> By 1796 he had been appointed [[Commanding Officer]] of the [[20th Regiment of Foot]].<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesmy00steegoog/reminiscencesmy00steegoog_djvu.txt Reminiscences of my military life from 1795 to 1818, by Charles Steevens]</ref>

He was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] from 1807 to 1811 during which time he was promoted to [[Lieutenant-General]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16390|page=1093|date=24 July 1810}}</ref>

He also became [[Colonel]] of the 1st Battalion of the [[Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)|95th Regiment of Foot]].<ref>[http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/Regiments/c_95thFoot.html British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815: 95th Regiment of Foot] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175253/http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/Britain/Infantry/Regiments/c_95thFoot.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}</ref>

He lived in [[London Borough of Merton|Merton]]<ref>[http://www.mertonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/doc_library/BUL168X.pdf Bulletin 168] Merton Historical Society, December 2008</ref> and died on 23 October 1816.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/pagetbrothers00page/pagetbrothers00page_djvu.txt The Paget Brothers 1790-1840]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*Urwin, Gregory J. W. (18 October 2016). ''Journal of the American Revolution'': [https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/10/cornwallis-dan-deconstructing-forbes-champagne-letter/ "With Cornwallis to the Dan: Deconstructing the 'Forbes Champagné Letter']

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