Sir George Charles Hoste was a British Army officer who fought in various battles and engagements of the Napoleonic Wars in Italy, Egypt, Belgium, and France between 1805 and 1815. The third son of a clergyman in Norfolk, he was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1802. He was promoted first lieutenant in the same year, captain in 1812, brevet-major in 1814, lieutenant-colonel in 1825, brevet-colonel in 1838, and colonel in 1841.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- March 10, 1786, March 1786
- Died
