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Cumberland (WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS DUKE)

WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS, DUKE OF, third son of George II. of England; born in 1721. At the battle of Dettingen he was wounded when fighting at the side of his father, and though unsuccessful at Fontenoy, where he had the command of the allied army, he rose in reputation by somewhat brutally subduing the insurrection in Scotland caused by the landing of Charles Edward Stuart in 1745. In 1747 Cumberland was defeated by Marshal Saxe at Lafeld, and in 1757 he lost the the battle of Hastenbeck, against D'Estrées, and concluded the convention at Closter- CUMBERLAND GAP seven, by which 40,000 English soldiers were disarmed and disbanded, and Hanover placed at the mercy of the French. He then retired in disgrace from his public office, and took no active part in affairs. He died in 1765.