Dictionary of Indian Biography/Roberts, Sir Henry Gee
ROBERTS, SIR HENRY GEE (1800–1860)
Maj-General: born July 18, 1800: son of William Roberts M.B. of Gloucester, and grandson of W. Roberts: President of Magdalen College. Cambridge; entered the E. I. Co.'s Bombay military service, 1818: Captain, 1824: commanded Cutch Irregular Horse, 1825: and employed politically as Assistant to the Resident: commanded a regiment of IrregularCavalry in Gujarat, till 1841: Lt-Colonel in the Sind campaign, 1843, commanding at Sukkur: denuded himself of troops there, in order to reinforce Sir C. Napier for Miani, which the latter fully acknowledged as contributing greatly to his success: Resident in Cutch: described in 1851, by Sir C. Napier, as the best officer in the Bombay Army, and perhaps in India, of his rank: and, later, as "capable of commanding any Army in the field": in the mutiny, commanded the N. Division of the Bombay Army and in 1858 the Raj-putana Field Force: took Kotah by assault, March, 1858, and 75 guns: defeated Tantia Topi on several occasions, at Sanganir, at Kankrauli, on the Banas, etc.: commanded in Gujarat: Maj-General: K.C.B., 1859: retired, 1859: died Oct. 6, 1860.