Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet.

About Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet

General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, was a career soldier in the British Army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War he became the principal of the so-called Asgill Affair of 1782, in which his retaliatory death sentence while a prisoner of war was commuted by the American forces who held him, due to the direct intervention of the government of France. Later in his career, he was involved in the Flanders campaign, the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and was Commander of the Eastern Division of Ireland during the Irish rebellion of 1803.