Colonel Richard Augustus Warren (1705–1775), also known as Sir Richard Warren, was an Irish Jacobite soldier who served in the French Irish Brigade and in the

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. He led the naval mission to rescue Charles Edward Stuart from Scotland in 1746.

Biography

Warren was born at Corduff, the son of John Warren and Mary Jones. The family's financial situation compelled Warren to emigrate to France, where he briefly worked as a merchant in Marseilles. In 1744 he became a volunteer captain in the French army, joining an Irish regiment and fighting at the Battle of Fontenoy. He was commissioned by

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to lead two ships of French reinforcements for the 1745 Jacobite rising, landing at

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in October 1745 with soldiers for the army of Prince Charles, the Young Pretender. Charles promoted Warren to Colonel after observing his construction of battery defences at Perth and Warren became aide-de-camp to General Lord George Murray. He was present at the Siege of Carlisle before returning to France to source further reinforcements. In gratitude for the news, and for the safe delivery of several prisoners captured at the battle, the French court awarded him the rank of colonel, and he was made a knight of the

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Rescue of Charles Edward Stuart

Following the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, Warren volunteered to lead the mission to rescue Prince Charles from Scotland. Departing from

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on 31 August with two French ships, ''Le Prince de Conti'' and ''L’Heureux'', he landed at Loch nan Uamh in the

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on 6 September. After three weeks of searching, the Prince and his small group of supporters were found and Warren departed with them on 30 September. Warren's ships landed at

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in north west France on 10 October. On 3 November 1746

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made Warren a

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in the Jacobite peerage for "gallant service"; however he was only allowed to use this title publicly after 1751.

French service

Warren returned to French service and became aide-de-camp to Marshall

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. In 1750 he was made "brigadier general of the English troops" as a reward for his loyalty to the Jacobite cause. He visited

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in 1751 and was included on a list of proposed attainders for Jacobite rebels in 1752. On the outbreak of the

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in 1756 he was appointed brigadier of infantry in the French army and was given command of the Irish Brigade. In 1762 he became a Maréchal de camp and soon after a French subject. He died unmarried and heavily in debt in 1775, having unsuccessfully petitioned the Stuarts for a Jacobite peerage.Patrick M. Geoghegan
'Warren, Richard Augustus'
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Richard 1705 births 1775 deaths 18th-century Irish people Baronets in the Jacobite peerage French military personnel of the Seven Years' War Irish emigrants to France Irish Jacobites Irish soldiers in the French Army Jacobite military personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 Knights of the Order of Saint Louis