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2la War Services of the General Officers.
1809; subsequently in the Peninsula. He had charge of Napoleon at St. Helena when he died,
and ho brouy;ht home the despatches of his death. Served afterwards in the East Indies. He
has received the War Medal with four Clasps for Vimiera, Corunna, Vittoria, and Pyrenees
(severely wounded).
9 Lieut. General Grierson served at Cadiz during parts of 1812 and 1813, and afterwards
on the eastern coast of Spain.
10 Lieut. General Cartwright served the campaigns of 1813 and 14 with the 61st, including
the battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse, for which he has received the
Silver War Medal with five Clasps. Served the campaign of 1815 with the 10th Hussars, and
was present at the battle of Waterloo.
11 Lieut. General Gore served the campaign of 1815 with the 30th, and was slightly
wounded at Waterloo.
12 Lieut. General GooJsman served in the Peninsula with the 61st, and was wounded at
Talavera, for which battle he has received the War JNledal with one Clasp.
13 Lieut. General Whichcote joined the 52nd as a volunteer in December 1810, and served
with it in the Peninsula, France, and Inlanders, and was present in the actions of Sabugal, El
Bodon, and Alfayates, siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, and of Badajoz, battle of Salamanca,
retreat from Burgos, battle of Vittoria, action at Vera, battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle,
the Nile, Orthes, Taibes, Toulouse, and Waterloo. He has received the War Modal with nine
Clasps.
14 Lieut. General Butler served the campaign of 1815 with the 3rd Battalion of the Grena¬
dier Guards, and was present in the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo (where he carried
the colours), storming of Peronne, and capture of Paris.
15 Lieut. General Darby served in Hanover in 1805; at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807;
and the Corunna campaign in 1808-9. Has the War Medal with one Clasp for Corunna.
16 Lieut. General Pester was present at the defence of Cadiz, and at the battle of
Barrosa—severely wounded (War Medal with one Clasp).
17 Major General W. H. Slado was present at St. Sebastian in July and August 1813;
blockade of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie. He was one of the officers selected to accom¬
pany the boats from Socoa to the mouth of the river Adour, and to assist in laying the bridge
across. He has received the Silver War Medal with one Clasp for St. Sebastian.
18 Major General Dalton served at Walcheren and at the siege of Flushing in 1809.
19 Major General Barry served in the Peninsula from August 1812 to October 1813, and
was severely wounded by a grape shot, 31st August 1813, when leading a party to the breach
at the storming of St. Sebastian. He has received the Silver War Medal with one Clasp.
20 Major General F. W. Whinyates was present at the attack on Algiers by Lord Exmouth
on 27th August 1816. Served with the army in France in 1817 and 1818. In February 1839
was commanding officer of Engineers with the Field Force in New Brunswick when the dis¬
puted territory was invaded by the state of Maine. Has the Medal for the battle of Algiers.
'il Major General K, G. B. Wilson served in Holland, Belgium, and France, from December
1813 to January 1816, including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
'22 Major General Emmett's services:—sieges of Badajoz in 1811 and 12; passage of
the Nive," battles before Bayonne, Orthes,and Toulouse. Attack on the American lines at New
Orleans, every affair on that expedition, and the siege of Fort Bowyer. Slightly wounded at
Badajoz in 1811; again on the advance towards Orthes; and very severely wounded at the
assault of Badajoz in 1812. He has received the Silver War Medal with four Clasps.
23 Major General Waters served in the Peninsula from April 1812 to September 1814. Was
at Cadiz when the siege was raised in the former year. In 1815 he was present in the actions
of Qaatre Bras and Waterloo. He led one of the columns to the assault of Peronne on the
26th June 1815, and was at the capture of Paris.
24 Major General Pilcher served with the boats of the British fleet in 1801 in their
occasional attacks on the Spanish gunboats and vessels off Cadiz. In 1803 he served in the
North Sea. In 1804 at the attack on the gun-boats and batteries at Boulogne. On 22nd July
1805 in the general action and defeat of the combined fleets of France and Spain ; and on 16th
Aug. in action with La Topaxe French frigate. In Jan. 1806 he landed wiili the R. M. Bat¬
talion at the attack and capture of the Cape of Good Hope ; in June following with the same
Battalion at the attack and defeat of the Spanish troops on the road to Buenos Ayres, and at
the capture of that city ; also at its defence in August, and after three days' action was taken
prisoner with the rest of the British. In 1811 he served in the North Sea in several actions
with Danish gun-boats. In 1813-14 off the coast of France and America. Appointed to the
2nd Battalion R. M., and as Adjutant was at the attack of the American Army audits defeat on
the road to Baltimore : at the attack on the American troops at Earnham Church he commanded
the advance. In 1815 he was at the attack of the American Rifle force near Point a Petie, and
at the capture of that fort in West Florida. From 1819 to 1821 he served atSt. Helena—during
the last nine months of Napoleon's life, and assisted with the Royal Marines at his interment.
25 Major General Thomas Stevens was present blockading Brest, the Helder, and Cadiz, and was
engaged with batteries. In 1809 he was engaged with gun-boats in passing convoys through the
Sound and Categat; in H. M. S. Cerberus, with convoy of armed transports and gun-boats in the
Gulf of Friedland; in the boats of the squadron in the successful attack upon the Russian Flotilla
of heavy armed gun-boats and armed Transports; and at the capture of a Russian schooner^
From 1836 to 1840 he served in the Royal Marine Battalion on the north coast of Spain; was
detached in command of a company for the defence of the Eastern Heights of Passages attacked
by the Carlists, and in the Carliat attack of the Lines on the 6th June 1836; and lie was also pre¬
sent at Fuentarabia, 11th July 1836. Has received the War Medal witti one Clasp.
20 Major General Whylock served in Sir Robert Calder's action olFFerrol; in boats cutting
out from under batteries at Rota, 7th April 1808; commanded the Royal Marines landed from the