Charles Mawhood (23 December 1729 – 29 August 1780) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army who was noted for his command at the Battle of Princeton during the American Revolutionary War.
Biography[]
Charles Mawhood enlisted in the British Army in 1752 as a dragoon cornet, and he served in Germany during the Seven Years' War. In 1775, he became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot (later the Royal Leicestershire Regiment), and he served with the regiment during William Howe's early campaigns of the American Revolutionary War. In 1777, he commanded the garrison of Princeton, and he acquitted himself well at the Battle of Princeton, during which he almost routed George Washington's army. He saw further action during the 1777-78 Philadelphia campaign, leading a mixed force of regulars, loyalists, and rangers in a series of raids in New Jersey. He was later chosen to raise a new regiment to defend Gibraltar during the "Great Siege of Gibraltar", and he died of a gall-stone in 1780.