15 Facts About Denis Pack

Major-General Sir Denis Pack was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Denis Pack's mother was Catherine, daughter and heiress of Denis Sullivan of Berehaven, Ireland.

Denis Pack's tomb is in St Canice's Cathedral in Kilkenny, Ireland near Kilkenny Castle.

Denis Pack saw service in Flanders in 1794, was on the Quiberon expedition of 1795, and in Ireland of the suppression of the 1798 rebellion.

Denis Pack commanded the 71st Foot during the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806.

General Beresford, together with Colonel Denis Pack, were housed in the Villa of Lujan.

Once in Montevideo, Denis Pack joined the division of General Robert Craufurd to join the second invasion to Buenos Aires, although he had taken the oath never again to take up arms against Spain.

Denis Pack violated his oath, taking active part in the occupation of Colonia del Sacramento, which made the attack by Colonel Francisco Javier de Elio fail.

Denis Pack accompanied Craufurd in the battle of Corrales de Miserere and in the attack on the city of Buenos Aires.

Denis Pack occupied with the men at his command the Church of Santo Domingo, where the local resistance forced him to rest; there he found the flag of his beloved 71st Regiment but, despite his efforts, he was overcome by the tenacity of the attack by the Buenos Aires regiments.

Denis Pack tried to abandon his position and the city, but the Buenos Aires forces gathered around him, and he was forced to surrender .

The people were looking for Denis Pack to execute him for perjury, but the Dominican friars protected him until he was delivered to General John Whitelocke, at the beginning of the English retreat.

Denis Pack was promoted to major-general in 1813 and commanded the Oporto Brigade of the Portuguese Army in Spain.

Denis Pack was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1815 and commanded the 9th Brigade of Sir Thomas Picton's 5th Division at the Battle of Waterloo.

Denis Pack became Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth and General Officer Commanding Western District in 1819.