John Keane, 1st Baron Keane (6 February 1781-24 August 1844) was a Lieutenant-General of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, and First Anglo-Afghan War.
Biography[]
John Keane was born in Belmont, Ireland, and joined the British Army in 1792. He became the Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War and fought from Vitoria to Toulouse. He was promoted to Major-General in 1814 and fought in the War of 1812 as one of the senior generals of Sir Edward Pakenham, and he was wounded twice at the Battle of New Orleans. He became commander-in-chief of the West Indies and the colonial government of Jamaica, and from 1834 to 1840 he commanded the Army of Bombay. In 1839 he led the Army of the Indus into the Battle of Ghazni in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and he died in Hampshire, England in 1844.