Rodolphus de Salis
# Rodolphus de Salis

General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis (9 May 1811 - 13 March 1880), CB, OBE, Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie was a soldier who fought at many major battles during the nineteenth century.

## Early life and education

Second son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, he was educated at Eton College, Heidelberg University and Oriel College, Oxford.

## Career

Cornet, 17 December 1830; Lieutenant, 28 June 1833; Captain, 13 July 1838; Major, 19 February 1847; Brevet Lt. Colonel, 28 November 1854; Lt. Colonel, 2 October 1856; Colonel, 20 March 1858. He fought at Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, Tchernaya, Kertch, Sebastopol, Central India (& Rajpootana), Kotah ki Serai, Sindwaho, Delhi, Koondrye, Chundaree, Gwalior, and Boordah.

## Marriage

He married in Paris, 8 November 1875, Augusta Letitia Robinson, of 10 Marble Arch, London, (1839–1929), (widow of General Adolfus Derville, (1801–1874), Indian Army.

## References and Notes

* Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Roy Dutton, 2007.
* ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251–253).
* ↑ The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.
