{{Short description|British general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Lieutenant-General | name = Sir Henry Warre | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} | image = General-Warre full MA I175529 TePapa.jpg | caption = Warre in c. 1860 | birth_date = 12 January 1819<ref name="burke1898"/> | death_date = {{dda|3 April 1898|12 January 1819|df=y}} | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = Cape Town, Cape Colony | death_place = London, England | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | birth_name = Henry James Warre | allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = 1837–1881 | rank = Lieutenant-General | unit = | commands = Bombay Army | battles = {{tree list}} *Crimean War *New Zealand Wars **Second Taranaki War *Second Anglo-Afghan War {{tree list/end}} | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} Lieutenant-General '''Sir Henry James Warre''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (12 January 1819 – 3 April 1898) was a British Army officer.

==Early life== Warre was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Warre (1784–1853) and Selina Anna Maling, the youngest daughter of Christopher Thompson Maling.<ref name="burke1898">{{cite book |title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage |date=1898 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=1702 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NlhQAQAAMAAJ&q=Christopher+Thompson+Maling&pg=PA1702 |language=en}}</ref> His father saw service in the Peninsular War as aide-de-camp to William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Warre, William|volume=59|first= Robert Hamilton |last=Vetch|authorlink=Robert Hamilton Vetch}}</ref> His mother's elder sister Sophia married Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, and was the mother of Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2920 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

He was baptised on his first birthday at St Nicholas Church, Brighton, Sussex.<ref>''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975''</ref>

==Military career== Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Warre was commissioned into the 54th Regiment of Foot in 1837.<ref name="bio">[http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=8519 Warre, Henry James]</ref> He became aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Downes Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.<ref name="bio" /> A staff appointment in Canada led to his official investigation of the river route from Montreal to the Red River Settlement, which he traversed by canoe a distance of 2,300 miles.<ref name="ILN 1898">{{cite news |title=Obituary |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/HN3100159177/ILN?u=wes_ttda&sid=bookmark-ILN&xid=777fe892 |access-date=30 July 2024 |issue=3078 |publisher=The Illustrated London News |date=1898-04-16 |page=7 |quote=Volume 112}}</ref> thumb|left|Warre's Oregon City 1845 Subsequently, in 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission, riding through the Rockies, with Mervin Vavasour to the Oregon Country to prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory.<ref name="bio" /> During the trip he made paintings and sketches of the region, and reported on possible military preparations.<ref>Joseph Schafer, "Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour’s Military Reconnoissance in Oregon, 1845-6", Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March, 1909), pp. 1-99.</ref> thumb|A self portrait, his hut in the Crimea, before Sebastopol, July 1855. [[File:Camp before Fort Kinburn, Dnieper River, from the Cemetery - 26 October 1855.jpg|thumb|Camp before Fort Kinburn, Dnieper River, from the Cemetery - 26 October 1855. 9 days after the battle.]] He served throughout the Crimean War, October 1853 to February 1856. Warre commanded the 57th Regiment of Foot in the Crimean War in 1855.<ref name=bio/>

Taking part in the Siege of Sebastopol, he did his part in the quelling of the Indian Mutiny. He then transferred from India to take part in the Māori war of 1861 to 1865. He led his regiment in the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand in Spring 1865, seizing Māori land on the north Taranaki coast and establishing posts from Pukearuhe, 50&nbsp;km north of New Plymouth, to Ōpunake, 80&nbsp;km south of the town.<ref name=Cowan5>[https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cow02NewZ-c5.html James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Vol II, Chapter 5, 1922]</ref>

He became Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army in 1878 and served in that role during the Second Anglo-Afghan War,<ref name=archives>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=063-811254&cid=-1#-1 National Archives]</ref> going to the support of Sir Donald Stewart, holding the line of march from the Indus to Kandahar, enabled him to relieve Kabul. He retired in 1881.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. India Office|title=The India List and India Office List|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123|year=1819|publisher=Harrison|page=123}}</ref> He was awarded the K.C.B. on 29 May 1886.<ref name="LG 1886">{{cite journal |title=KCB award |journal=The London Gazette |date=1886-05-29 |issue=25592 |page=2633 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25592/page/2633 |access-date=30 July 2024}}</ref>

Warre was also a talented artist and published two books of sketches from his journeys: ''Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory'' (1848)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_17245|quote=Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory warre.|title=Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory|first=Sir Henry|last=Warre|publisher=Dickinson & Company|year=1983|orig-year=1848|isbn=9780665172458}}</ref> and ''Sketches in the Crimea'' (1856).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=koQFAAAAQAAJ|title=Sketches in the Crimea|first=Sir Henry|last=Warre|publisher=Oxford University|year=1856}}</ref>

The National Library of New Zealand has an extensive collection of 149 of his sketches covering the Crimean War, Europe, the United States, New Zealand, and some European items.<ref>{{cite web |title=Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898 |url=https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.265240 |website=Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand |access-date=29 July 2024 |quote=Army officer and artist. As an army officer in the Buckinghamshire Regiment, he served in British North America, including Canada, as ADC (Aide-de-camp) to his uncle, Sir R. D. Jackson, Commander-in-chief of the British forces. He travelled across country to Oregon and British Columbia in 1845-1846. He also served during the Crimean War. With the rank of Colonel, he served in New Zealand 1861-1865 as Commanding Officer of the 57th Regiment, based in the North Island. He also undertook a sea voyage to the South Island, including visits to Nelson, Lyttelton and Otago in 1865. Painted and drew in pencil and watercolours. His New Zealand drawings and watercolours are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Museum, Auckland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery, Hocken Library and the National Library of Australia. Canadian watercolours and drawings are held by the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.}}</ref>

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