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'''Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB (1782-1845)''', was a British army soldier who went to India in 1798 as a lieutenant in the [[12th Regiment of Foot]]. He served under [[Arthur Wellesley]] in the [[4th Mysore War]] and was on the [[Mauritius Campaign]]. He commanded the [[13th Regiment of Foot]] in the [[1st Burma War]]. During the [[1st Afghan War]] commanded the 1st Bengal Brigade of the Army of the Indus and led the [[Storming of Ghazni]]. From [[Kabul]] he fought his way to [[Jalalabad]] where he was besieged until he accompanied General Pollock on [[the Army of Retribution March to Kabul]]. He was killed at the [[Battle of Moodkee]] in the [[1st Sikh War]].
His wife wrote an account of the [[Captivity of the Hostages]] during the 1st Afghan War: [http://www.archive.org/stream/ajournaldisaste01dickgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2''] by Lady Florentia Sale 1843 (archive.org)
== External links ==
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/370371/mode/1up Robert Sale] ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906)<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Sale Robert Sale] Wikipedia<br />
