{{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Major-General | name = Richard Hulse | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{circa}}1775 | death_date = 7 September 1812 | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = Arévalo, Spain | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army | service_years = 1790–1812 | rank = Major-General | unit = Coldstream Guards | commands = 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards<br/>Guards Brigade, 1st Division<br/>1st Brigade, 6th Division<br/>1st Brigade, 5th Division<br/>5th Division | battles = {{Tree list}} *French Revolutionary Wars **Flanders campaign *Napoleonic Wars **Hanover Expedition **Copenhagen Expedition **Peninsular War ***Second Battle of Porto ***Battle of Talavera ***Battle of Busaco ***Battle of Fuentes de Onoro ***Battle of El Bodón ***Siege of the Salamanca forts ***Battle of Salamanca {{tree list/end}} | awards = Army Gold Medal with clasp | relations = | other_work = }} Major-General '''Richard Hulse''' ({{circa}} 1775 – 7 September 1812) was a senior British Army officer who saw action in the Napoleonic Wars.

==Early life== Hulse was the son of Sir Edward Hulse, 3rd Baronet and Mary Lethieullier: his parents lived at Breamore House in Hampshire.<ref> Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.</ref>

==Military career== Hulse was commissioned as an ensign in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards in 1790.<ref name=ns>{{cite web|url=https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/BritishGenerals/c_Britishgenerals218a.html |title=Hulse, Richard|publisher=Napoleonic Series|access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> He saw action in the Flanders campaign between 1794 and 1795, and having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1800, he was deployed to Hanover under the command of General William Cathcart.<ref name=ns/> He next saw action at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807.<ref name=ns/>

Deployed to Spain for service in the Peninsular War, he temporarily commanded a brigade in the 1st Division from November to December 1809 and then commanded the 1st Brigade in the 6th Division from November 1810 to July 1812.<ref name=ns/> He commanded his brigade at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811 and then commanded it again, and suffered heavy losses, at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://soldiersofglos.com/announcement/the-battle-of-salamanca/ |title=The Battle of Salamanca|publisher=Soldiers of Gloucestershire|access-date=10 January 2021}}</ref>

After that he became acting General Officer Commanding the 5th Division on 22 July 1812 and substantive General Officer Commanding the 5th Division on 31 July 1812.<ref name=reid>{{cite book|first=Stuart|last=Reid|title=Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809–14|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey Publishing|year=2004|isbn=978-1-84176-517-4|page=58}}</ref> He died of typhus on 7 September 1812.<ref name="McGuigan">* {{cite book|last1=McGuigan|first1=Ron|last2=Burnham|first2=Robert|year=2017|title=Wellington's Brigade Commanders|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire|publisher=Pen & Sword Military|isbn=978-1-47385-079-8|page=145}}</ref>

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