The royal military calendar, containing the services of every general officer in the British army [&c. By J. Philippart].

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Page 188 - Guards, and began to fall l>ack; but Sir John, discovering the mistake, said to them, "My " brave 42d, join your comrades, ammunition is coming, and you have
Page 196 - ... when he retired from the vice-presidency of the Board of Trade, the leading members on both sides of the House pronounced the highest eulogiums on his transcendent talents; and the merchants of the city of London presented him with a piece of plate of the value of five hundred pounds. In 1828 he was raised to the peerage by the style and title of Baron Knaresdale, of Knaresdale in Northumberland.
Page 187 - Blanca, he urged the adoption of such energetic measures as he conceived would prove advantageous to the Spanish cause ; but he soon saw, with regret, the supineness with which the Junta beheld the gigantic efforts of Buonaparte to complete the subjugation of their country.
Page 188 - He then rode up to the 50th regiment, commanded by Majors Napier and Stanhope ; who got over an inclosure in their front, and charged most gallantly. The General, ever an admirer of valour, exclaimed,
Page 188 - The troops, though not unacquainted with the irreparable loss they had sustained, were not dismayed, but by the most determined bravery not only repelled every attempt of the enemy to gain ground, but actually forced him to retire, although he had brought up fresh troops in support of those originally engaged.
Page 127 - Wellesley being appointed to the command of the greater part of the army, this officer proceeded into the Mahratta country ; and finding that his services could be of no further use, he obtained permission to return to Britain. He sailed in March with his Staff from Madras, and was taken prisoner by a French privateer ; in October he was re-taken as the ship was sailing into Corunna.
Page 168 - Graham, aware of the prodigious strength of the place, resorted to a blockade, and the French held out till September, 1800, when, after a resistance of two years' duration, the place surrendered.
Page 337 - I take the earliest opportunity in my power of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 9th of March, and of thanking you for your obliging attention in communicating to me thus early, what relates to the distinguished conduct of my gallant old friends, the guards, under your command in the glorious and severely-contested action of the 5th.
Page 199 - In 1778, he was sent by General Sir F. Haldimand to Lake Ontario, to form a naval establishment on the east side of that lake ; and was afterwards employed in different parts of Canada as Commanding Engineer, until the peace in 1783, when he obtained leave to return to England. In 1785, he was employed as Secretary to the Board of Land and Sea Officers, appointed under the King's Sign Manual, to report upon the defences of the dockyards at Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Page 167 - Having after much difficulty obtained a landing on a .desirable spot, he travelled during the night on foo , wading through mire and swamps, and in momentary danger of losing his way, with the additional apprehension of falling ingloriously by a shot from the numerous picquets posted in every part ; or of being stopped and detained as a British officer, he then wearing his uniform.

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