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War Services of the General Officers. 856
119 Maior-Gcneral Emmett's servises :—sieges of BaJajoz in 1811 and 12; passage of
the Mve, battles before Bayonne, Orthes, and Toulouse. Attack on the ATrerican l.nes a_t New
Orleans, every affair on that expedition, and the siege of Fort Bowyer. & ightly vvounded at
Eadaiozin 18U; 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 fcur Clasps.
1''0 Maior-General Waters servtd in the Toninsula from April 1812 to Septnmber 1814. Was
at Cadiz when the siege was raised in the former year. In 1815 he was present in the actions
of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. He led one of the columns to the assault of Teronne on the
26th June 1815, and was at the capture of Taris. p ^ -n, i. *.
l''l Maior-General Powell served in the boats at the captureby boarding of the French cutte
Tapc.-abord, off St, Domingo, in 1805 ; and in the Koyal Marine Battalion in the north of
Spain in 18.3G-37, including the actions of Fuentarabia and Hernani. . • ^v i
f'? Maior-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 22nfl July
1805 in the general action and defeat of the combined fleets of France and Spam ; and on 16th
Auo-. in action with La Topaze French frigate. In Jan. 1806 he land<'d with 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 Farnham Church he commanded
the advance. In 1815 he was at the attack of the American Rifle force near Point a 1 etie, and
at the capture of that fort in West Florida. From 1819to 1821 he served at St. Helena—during
the last nine months of Napoleon's life, and assisted with the Royal Marines at his interment.
123 Maior-General Thomas Stevens was present blockading Brest, the Uelder, and Cadiz, and was
enga'^ed with batteries. In 1809 he was engaged with gun-boats in passing convoys ihrougli the
StiunTl 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 I lotiUa
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; wag
detached in command of a company for the defence of the Eastern Heights of Passages attacked
by the Carlists, and in the Carlist attack of the Lines on the 6th June 183G; and he was also pre¬
sent at Fuentarabia, 11th July 1836. Has received the War Medal with one Clasp.
124 Major-General Gibsone landed from the Ihunderer and served on shore tor eight days m
Bearbavtn Bay in 1804. He was on board the Safeguard mortar brig in a severe action with a
division of Danish gun-boa^s off Anholt in June 1811, on which occasion the vessel was engaged
for three and a half hours, and 19 were killed or wounded out of a complement of 29. The tol-
lowinn' year he was engaged at Cateria on the north coast of Spain, and accompinied Captain
Parke^with two heavy guns intended for the army besieging Burgos. In 1813 and 14 he served
in the American war, and was present at the attack on Craney Island, taking of Hampton, de¬
fence of the Lines of Chippewa, and on other occasions on the Niagara Frontier, where he sus-
tainpd a severe fracture of the left arm, and a violent contusion on the right breast.
VKi M^jor-General Mercer assisted at the destruction of the French squadronin BaS(iue
Roads. He was repeatedly landed on the north coast of Spain in 1810, co-operating with the
Patriots. In 1812, while embarked on board H.M.S. Java, he was engaged with and captured
by the United States frig;ate Constitution. Has received the War Medal with one Clasp.
128 Major-General Walker served at Copenhagen.
129 Major-General Donald Campbell served at Walcheren in 1809. Has received the War
Medal with one Clasp. , . , .
130 Maior-General Whylock served in Sir Robert Gaidar's action off Ferrol; m boats cutting
out from under batteries at Rota, 7th April 1808; commanded the Royal Marines landed froni the
Anolo-Sicilian Squadron to assist in the defence of the island of Capri when besieged by Gen.
la Manjue; at the capture of Ledu from the harbour of Rovigno, 1st April 1809; at the attack
and capture of a convoy under protection of a battery at Pessaro, 23rd April; on 15th May
at the attack on the town of Rota and destruction of seven vessels; on 8th September at the
cutting out of La Pmjliesse from the harbour of Barletta. On 1st June 1813, commanded a
stormin"' party in Isle Verte, near Toulon—enemy routed and a demi-lune battery destroyed.
At the capture of the Island of Powza, 27th February 1813 ; at the cutting oat of an armed
vessel from under the batteries of Orbetello, 9th May; and Uth Oct. following, at the capture ot
seventeen vessels at Marinello, after destroying a battery which protected them; at the siege
and capture of St. Maria in March, and the siege and capture of Geroaa in April, 1814; com-