Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope GCH (15 July 1765 – August 1836) was a Scottish officer of the British Army who was a commander under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War.

His mother, Mary, committed suicide in June 1767, leaving young John and his two brothers, Charles and William, to be cared for by their father.

He had reached the rank of Captain when like other officers he left the Dutch service in 1782 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and was on half-pay until 29 September 1787, when he joined the 60th Foot (Royal American Regiment), but the regiment was reduced and he was briefly on half-pay again before joining the 13th Light Dragoons on 30 June 1788.

[4] In February 1793, shortly after the French Revolutionary War had begun, Hope served as aide-de-camp to Sir William Erskine in the Flanders Campaign.

[2] On 25 March 1795, a few days after Erskine's death, Hope was promoted to major in the 28th Light Dragoons,[5] becoming lieutenant-colonel of that regiment on 20 February 1796.

Marshal Marmont took his army some 30 miles (48 km) upstream of the Douro but Wellington refused to do battle there, forcing the French to advance.

Eventually the French retreated and escaped over a bridge that Wellington had, erroneously, assumed was guarded by Spanish troops.