<P> Napier recuperated from his wounds while he was being held near the headquarters of the French Marshall Soult and afterwards Michel Ney . On 21 March 1809, a British sloop approached Corunna with a letter for the commandant of the city, requesting information about the fate of Napier on behalf of his family . After an agreement between Ney and Napier, the latter was released on a convalescence leave at home for three months, under parole to return to Ney's quarters wherever he was on the first of July 1809 . </P> <P> Napier volunteered to return to the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 to fight again against Napoleon in Portugal, notably in the Battle of the Côa, where he had two horses shot out from under him, in the Battle of Bussaco, in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, and in the Battle of Badajoz (1812) (the second siege of Badajoz) in Extremadura, Spain, in which he was a lieutenant colonel in the 102nd regiment . For his deeds at Bussaco and at Fuentes de Oñoro, Napier won the silver medal with two clasps . Napier returned to England and became the General Officer Commanding of the Northern District in England in April 1839 . </P> <P> In 1842, at the age of 60, Napier was appointed Major General to the command of the Indian army within the Bombay Presidency . Here Lord Ellenborough's policy led Napier to Sindh Province (Scinde), for the purpose of quelling the insurrection of the Muslim rulers who had remained hostile to the British Empire following the First Anglo - Afghan War . Napier's campaign against these chieftains resulted in victories in the Battle of Miani (Meanee) against General Hoshu Sheedi and the Battle of Hyderabad, and then the subjugation of the Sindh, and its annexation by its eastern neighbours as the Sind Division . </P> <P> His orders had been only to put down the rebels, and by conquering the whole Sindh Province he greatly exceeded his mandate . Napier was supposed to have despatched to his superiors the short, notable message, "Peccavi", the Latin for "I have sinned" (which was a pun on I have Sindh). This pun appeared under the title' Foreign Affairs' in Punch magazine on 18 May 1844 . The true author of the pun was, however, Englishwoman Catherine Winkworth, who submitted it to Punch, which then printed it as a factual report . Later, Napier made several comments on the Sindh adventure to the effect of: "If this was a piece of rascality, it was a noble piece of rascality!" </P>

Governer general of india during the annexation of sindh
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