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Henry Sheehy Keating

1775–1847

Henry Sheehy Keating was a British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic era and imperial campaigns. He is particularly associated with operations in the Indian Ocean, including the British capture of French-held islands.

Keating entered the British Army in 1793 and was badly wounded and captured during early service in the West Indies. In the Indian Ocean campaigns of 1809–1811 he commanded troops based on Rodrigues and helped plan the operations that captured Île Bonaparte and Île de France from the French. He later governed the restored Île Bourbon and eventually rose to lieutenant-general and Knight Commander of the Bath.

Patrick O’Brian’s The Mauritius Command places Henry Sheehy Keating within the real British campaign to seize Réunion and Mauritius from France. Keating’s army is part of the larger operation in which Jack Aubrey commands at sea and Stephen Maturin works through intelligence and local politics, so the historical general provides the land component of a joint expedition whose success depends on cooperation between naval and military commands.

Periods

Periods linked to Henry Sheehy Keating

Napoleonic Era1792–1815 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Henry Sheehy Keating (1 series)

Aubrey–Maturin Novels in Order

by Patrick O’Brian 21 books 4.5(73,173)

The Aubrey–Maturin novels follow Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon, naturalist and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin from the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France through the War of 1812 and the first years after Waterloo. Across twenty completed novels, their friendship links shipboard command, espionage, science, domestic…

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