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| First Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Shelton
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| Full Name at Birth |
John Shelton
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| Alternative Name |
John Shelton, Colonel John Shelton
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1789
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| Died |
13th May, 1845
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| Place of Death |
Dublin
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Military
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Colonel John Shelton (1790/91 – 13 May 1845) was an officer of the British Army who commanded the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot during the First Anglo-Afghan War and was second-in-command to Major General Sir William Elphinstone. He was one of only a small number of British soldiers to survive the disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul, in which a British army column of 4,500 men and 12,000 civilians was massacred by Afghan tribesmen as it attempted to march to Jalalabad. He was widely disliked as a tyrannical and ineffective commander whose failures led to the annihilation of his regiment and whose accidental death was cheered by his men, but he also had a deserved reputation for great physical bravery.
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