Frederick Augustus, Duke of York

Prince Frederick
Duke of York and Albany
The Duke of York, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, in the uniform of a Field-Marshal, with the mantle of the Order of the Garter, holding his Marshal's baton in his left hand.
Born	(1763-08-16)16 August 1763 St. James's Palace, London
Died	5 January 1827(1827-01-05) (aged 63) Rutland House, London
Burial	20 January 1827 St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire
Spouse	Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (m. 1791)
Full name Frederick Augustus
House	Hanover
Father	George III
Mother	Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Military career
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain  United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1780–1809 1811–1827
Rank	Field Marshal
Unit	Life Guards
Commands held	Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars War of the First Coalition Flanders Campaign Siege of Valenciennes Battle of Hondschoote Battle of Courtrai Battle of Tourcoing War of the Second Coalition Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland Napoleonic Wars War of the Third Coalition Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808) War of the Fourth Coalition Anglo-Turkish War (1807–09) Peninsular War War of the Fifth Coalition War of the Sixth Coalition War of the Seventh Coalition War of 1812

Napoleonic Wars

Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany KG GMB GCH (Frederick Augustus; 16 August 1763 – 5 January 1827) was the second son of George III, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, and his consort Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A soldier by profession, from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire. From the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827 he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother, George IV, in both the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Kingdom of Hanover.

Frederick was thrust into the British Army at a very early age and was appointed to high command at the age of thirty, when he was given command of a notoriously ineffectual campaign during the War of the First Coalition, a continental war following the French Revolution. Later, as Commander-in-Chief during the Napoleonic Wars, he oversaw the reorganisation of the British Army, establishing vital structural, administrative and recruiting reforms for which he is credited with having done "more for the army than any one man has done for it in the whole of its history."