{{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = General |name=Gore Browne |birth_date={{circa}} 1764 |death_date=12 January 1843 |birth_place= |death_place= |burial_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |service_years= |rank= General |branch= 23px British Army |commands=Western District |unit= |battles=French Revolutionary Wars<br>Napoleonic Wars |awards= }} General '''Gore Browne''' ({{circa}} 1764 – 12 January 1843) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth.
==Military career== Browne was commissioned as an ensign in the 35th Regiment of Foot on 5 July 1780.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LoSuCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA510|title=Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo|publisher=Pen & Sword|first=Janet|last=Bromley|year=2012|page=510|isbn=978-1848846753}}</ref> He became commanding officer of the 40th Regiment of Foot and commanded it at the Battle of Krabbendam and the Battle of Bergen in September 1799 and the Battle of Alkmaar in October 1799 during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz54unkngoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/gentlemansmagaz54unkngoog/page/n555 534]|quote=general gore browne 44th regiment.|title=General Gore Browne|publisher=The Gentleman's Magazine|year=1843|accessdate=13 December 2015}}</ref> He commanded a brigade at the Battle of Montevideo in February 1807 during the British invasions of the River Plate and also took part in the unsuccessful Walcheren Campaign in Autumn 1809.<ref name=bio/> He became Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth and General Officer Commanding Western District in December 1812<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16683|page=2548|date=19 December 1812}}</ref> and later served as colonel of the 44th Regiment of Foot.<ref name=bio/>
He was buried at St Mary's Church in Weymouth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radipoleparish.f2s.com/stmarysmonumentlist.pdf|title=Monument List|accessdate=13 December 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Richard England}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC Western District|years=1812–1819}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Denis Pack}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Gore}} Category:British Army generals Category:1760s births Category:1843 deaths Category:35th Regiment of Foot officers