996567 Portrait of Sir Charles Asgill, (mezzotint engraving) by Phillips, Thomas (1770-1845) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Career soldier in the British Army. Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet GCH (1762-1823) enjoyed a long military career, eventually rising to the rank of General. He is best remembered as the principal of the so-called "Asgill Affair" of 1782, in which his retaliatory execution while a prisoner of war was commuted by the American forces which held him due to the direct intervention of the government of France); English, out of copyright.