Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake

Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake (born July 27, 1744, Harrow, Middlesex, England—died February 20, 1808, London) was a British general, most prominent for his role in suppressing the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and for his campaigns in India from 1801 to 1806 against Daulat Rāo Sindhia of Gwalior and Jaswant Rāo Holkar, leaders of the Marāthā confederacy. Lake served in the Seven Years’ War, in the American Revolutionary War, and in the wars of the...