Robert Ballard Long

Lieutenant-General

Robert Ballard Long
Lieutenant-General; Robert Ballard Long
	1827 mezzotint of Long
Born	4 April 1771; Chichester, West Sussex
Died	2 March 1825 (aged 53); Berkeley Square, London
Allegiance	Great Britain ; Hanover ; United Kingdom
Branch	British Army ; Hanoverian Army
Service years	1791–1821
Rank	Lieutenant-general (British Army)
Unit	1st King's Dragoon Guards
Conflicts	French Revolutionary Wars Flanders campaign; Irish Rebellion of 1798; ; Napoleonic Wars Battle of Corunna; Walcheren Campaign; Battle of Campo Maior; Battle of Albuera; Battle of Arroyo dos Molinos; Battle of Vitoria; Battle of Pyrenees; Siege of Pamplona (1813); ;

Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long (4 April 1771 – 2 March 1825) was a British army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Serving in the British and Hanoverian armies, despite seeing extensive military service he never managed to achieve high command due to Long's abrasive manner with his superiors and alleged tactical ineptitude. Although he served as a cavalry commander in the Peninsular War between 1811 and 1813, Long was eventually replaced Colquhoun Grant, which ended Long's active military career.