Written by Karl Marx about October 1857 (dating by MEGA², I/16) and published unsigned in The New American Cyclopaedia, edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana (New York, D. Appleton and Co.), vol. III (1858), pp. 751-752; attributed to Karl Marx by MEGA² (I/16). Text of the Cyclopaedia from the public-domain scans in the Internet Archive (newamericancycl21danagoog), OCR corrected against the page images. Traducción al español
BROWN, Sir George, a British general, was born in August, 1790, at Linkwood, near Elgin, Scotland. He entered the army Jan. 23, 1806, as ensign in the 43d regiment of foot, and, as lieutenant in the same regiment, was present at the bombardment of Copenhagen; served in the peninsular war, from its beginning in 1808 to its close in 1814; was severely wounded at the battle of Talavera, and one of the forlorn hope at the storming of Badajoz. He was appointed captain in the 85th regiment, June 20, 1811; in Sept. 1814, he was a lieutenant-colonel in Major-General Ross's expedition to the United States, and took part in the battle of Bladensburg, and the capture of Washington. He was appointed commander of a battalion of the rifle brigade, Feb. 6, 1824; colonel, May 6, 1831; major-general, Nov. 23, 1841; deputy adjutant-general in 1842; adjutant-general of the forces in April, 1850, and lieut.-general in 1851. During the Crimean campaign, he led the English light division at the battle of Alma and the battle of Inkerman, and took the command-in-chief of the storming party in the first unsuccessful attack on the Redan. Among the allied armies he became distinguished as a martinet; but, by his personal prowess, and the strict impartiality with which he held the young aristocratic officers to all the duties of field discipline, he became popular among the common soldiers. In 1855 he was created a knight commander of the Bath, and April 2, 1856, gazetted “General in the army, for distinguished service in the field.”