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25^ TFar Services of the General Officers.
ir,2 Sir Josias Clocte served in the 15th Hussars from 1809 to 1813, as Aide-de-Camp to Lord
Charles Somerset, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1813
to the end of 1816, when he was sent in command of an expedition to take possession of the
island! of Tristan d'Acunha. Served in India during the Tindarree and Mahratia War from
1817 to 1819. Appointed to act as Deputy Quarter-Master-General at the Cape in 1820, and
conducted the landing and settlement of a large body of emigrants sent out by Government. In
1822 was sent home with important despatches, and received the brevet rank of Major. In I83:j>
nominated a KH. In 1840 became Deputy Quarter-Master-General at the Cape. In 1842
commanded a body of troops sent to Natal to relieve a detachment besieged by Insurgent Boers,
for which service was named a CS. Served during the Kaffir wars of 1846, and of 1851-53,
(Medal), including the campaign in the Basoota country, and the battle of Berea. In acknow¬
ledgment of his services, received the honour of Knighthood. _ • • j
153 Miijor-General George Macdonald accompanied the expedition to Hanover m 1805 •, joined
the army "in Sicily in 1806, and was employed with it in its various operations until 1810 ; in
the latter year he went with the expedition to Naples, and was present at the capture of Ischia
and Trocida; returned to Sicily and employed against the French army in 1811; in 1812 was
employed in Spain, including the battle of Castalla, and siege of Tarragona; embarked ior
Canada in 1814, and was present at the operations before Plattsburg. He served also tho
campaign of 1815, and received three wounds at Waterloo, viz. in the leg, in the neck, and
through the body, wounding the lungs. , , , ^ , , j i
154 Major-General Derinzy's services:—Campaign and battle of Corunna (severely wounded
in both knees); expedition to VValcheren, including the siege and capture of Flushing (wounded
in left arm). In the Peninsula campaigns, from December 1810 to the end of that war in
1814 including the affairs of Pombal and Redinha, re-capture of Campo Mayor, capture ot
Olivrenca, 1-t siege of Badajoz, battle of Albuhera, siege and capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, siege
and capture of Badajoz, battle of Salamanca, aftair of Aldea de Ponte, retreat from Madrid,
affairs of Osma and Jocauna, battle of Vittoria, blockade of Pampeluna, affairs of RoncesvaUes,
Zubisi, &c„ battles of Pampeluna, 28th July, and of the Pyrenees, 30th July, affairs of
Echalar, St. Estevan, &c., capture of San Sebastian, passage of the Bidassoa, battle of the
Nivelle (dan.'erously wounded through the body, reported killed); battle of Orthes, affairs ot
Bistide de la Clarence, and Gave d'Olcron. Twic*. wounded, musket-ball in left arm, and by
a "plinter of a shell in the chest at the battle of Toulouse, but did not quit the held. He has
received the Gold Medal for Toulouse, and the Silver War Medal and nine Clasps.
155 Maior-General Windham served the Eastern Campaign of 1854-55, as an Assistant
Quartermastci-General up to the fall of Sebastopol, and was promoted Major-General " for his
distinguished conduct in having with the greatest intrepidity and coo uess headed the column of
attack which assaulted the enemy's defences on the 8th September 18o5 (Medal and Clasps,
CB., Commander of the Legion of Honor, and Commander Ist Class of the Military Order ot
' ^57 Maior-Gencral Yule served in Canada during the greater part of the war of 1812-1814;
was present at the affair of Street's Creek, and dismantled under fire the bridge there, by which
the adrance of a superior force of the enemy was retarded ; was also in the actions of Chippewa
(horse mortally wounded) and Lundy's Lane. ..,-,., r c n T.^oiaoo.
158 Major-General James Gordon'* services:—attack on the Castle of Scylla. June 1809,
siegeandcaptureof Santa Maura, March 1810. . ^. ^ , „ j- .• •,i,fV,o
159 Maior General Ashmore was in the Monarch in Sir Samuel Hood s action with the
French frigates in 1806. From November 1807 till August 1809 in the Grampus, employed
at the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, and blockade of the Mauritius. From Pebruary 18K)
to Januftiv 1812 in the Poictiers blockading Brest, Basque Roads, and in the Tagus: whilst in
Basque Roads, was frequently in the boats sent to annoy the coasting trade, a service that
broi.Ut them continually under fire of the batteries, or into action with the gun-boats. When
in the Taeus was with the detachment of Marines sent with a smaU force of Portuguese under
General Trant to destroy the Pontoons preparing by Marshal Massena at Santarem to cross
ll.e Tagus: was on piquet under that town the night of the Marshal s retreat from the Lines.
In 1812 he was attached to the 2nd Battalion at Santander, north coajSt of Spain. On the
return of the battalions to England he joined the 1st Battalion; was at the attack on Norfolk,
taking of the town of Hampton, &c. When the battalion was broken up at Isle Aux Noix he
was kft for Lake service till 1817. From August 1826 to August 1829 was serving on the
South American station in the Ganges: was landed at Rio on the occasion of the German and
Irish troops revolting in 1828, to protect the Imperial family and palace of San Christoph, and
co-operate with the French and other forces landed to quell the mutiny.
160 Major-General John Cox, with the exception of a few months, served throughout the
whole of the Peninsular war with the 95th (Rifle Brigade), commencing with the first affair, at