Person
Richard Armstrong
- Slug
- richard-armstrong-89
- Alternative names
- Lieutenant-General
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Unknown
Born in 1782, Armstrong was an officer in the British Army. He became an ensign in 1796 and served in both the Peninsular War and the First Anglo-Burmese War. He subsequently became commander of the British forces in Canada West in 1842, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1851. He was also colonel of the 95th Regiment of Foot and then colonel of the 32nd Regiment of Foot. Armstrong died in March 1854.