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War Services of the Officers of the Royal Marines.
1 General Parke was present in Duncan's victory near Camperdown, 11th Oct. 1797;
commanded two companies of Marine Artillery in Spain in 1812, and three companies in America,
from 1813 to 1816, including the attack and capture of the entrenched camp at Hampton ;
besides the above, he has been twelve times engaged with the enemy in boats and on shore.
Has received the War Medal with one Clasp.
3 General Menzies was attached to Lord Nelson's squadron off Boulogne, where he par¬
ticipated in all the desperate cutting-out affairs on the French coast against Buonaparte's
flotilla. Commanded a detachment of Royal Marines landed at Port Jackson during an insur¬
rection of convicts, in March 1804 ; by his promptitude and exertions the town of Sydney, and
indeed the colony, was in a great measure preserved, and tranquillity restored. On the 22nd
June 1806, he was in one of the boats of His Majesty's Ship Minerva, cutting out five vessels
from under Fort Fiuisterre ; and on the 11th July following he was in the barge which, when
.'50 miles from where the frigate lay at anchor, captured by boarding the Buena Dicha Spanish
privateer, of three timts the fores of the boat, after a sharp conflict; this attack was planned by
Colonel Menzies. Commanded and headed the Marines at the storming of Fort Finisterre,
being the first who entered the Fort. In boats cutting out the Spanish vessel of war, St. Joseph,
from the Bay of Arosa, where he landed and made prisoner the Spanish Commodore, who de-
livernd to him his sword. Commanded the Marines at the capture of Fort Guardia. Slightly
wounded cutting out the French corvette. La Moselle, from under a battery in Basque Roads,
Taking of Fort Camarinus and gun-boats from under its protection. Repeatedly engaged in
severe boat-actions, and against batteries. Right arm amputated. Received a sword of honour
from the Patriotic Fund. Commanded the Royal Marine Artillery from 1837 to 1844.
4 Lieut.-General Cory ton served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, on board the Severn
and Hunter, from February 1800 until December 1802, and was engaged with the batteries at
the Isle of Bas. In 1803 he entered the Uoval Marines, and served in the Spartiate, off Brest,
in the West Indies, and at Trafalgar, in which battle Captain Sir Francis Laforey states that
" Lieut. Coryton rendered himself conspicuous by his gallant conduct." Embarked in 1806
in the Arijo, and served until ]809 on the coast of Africa, Canary Isles, West Indies, and
Spanish Main; was landed in command of a detachment at Wiuebah, on the coast of Africa,
against a native army; at the storming and capture of a battery at Teneriffe, and attempt at
cutting out an tnemy's vessel (severely wounded). Engaged with the enemy on thirty occasions
—several times hand to hand—and repeatedly wounded. General Burn stated that " Lieut.
Corytcn distinguished himself by a series of brilliant and successful achievements not surpassed
by a subaltern of any Service." Mentioned for " conspicuous zeal and gallantry " at the siege
and blockade of St. Domingo, and at the battering of Fort St. Jerome in 1809. At the cutting
out of the French National Felucca Joseph, of seven guns and sixty-two men. At the City of
St. Domingo, on the 9th March 18'J9, he commanded the gig, which, owing to her superior
pulling, boarded the vessel fifteen minutes before the other boats; he maintained himself until
their arrival, when they found him engaged single-handed with eight or ten of the enemy, re¬
fusing to surrender, although wounded in nine different places with sabres. After his return to
England he was voted a sword from the Patriotic Fund. Has received the War Medal with one
Clasp.
5 Lieut.-General S. B. Ellis's services:—The general action with the combined fleets of
France and Spain, off Cape Finisterre, 22nd July 1805; battle of Trafalgar, 21st October fol¬
lowing; the Walcheren expedition in 1809, and in theiat!ima,the leading frigate often, forcing
the passage of the Scheldt under a heavy fire from the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand.
Capturo of the island of Guadaloupe, in January 1810. Employed, in 1812 and 13, off the
coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal. Taking of the American frigate President, January
1814; various successful affairs of boats in North .\merica. Bombardment and reduction of
Fort Munora in Scinde in February 1839; and, landing, the 25th of the following month, with
the detachment of his corps at Bushire, under a smart tire from the Persians, for the protection
of the East India Company's Political Resident, and in possession of the Residency until the
30th, when that agent was embarked in safety. China expedition, and as senior officer in com¬
mand of the Royal Marines at the capture of Chusan on the 5th July 1840, battle of Chuen-
pee, 7th January 1841, wherein he commanded the ndvance (promoted Brevet Major) ; bom¬
bardment of the Bogue Forts, assault and capture of the Island of North Wantung, 26th
February; the advance on Canton. March 8th ; storming and taking the heights and forts
before the walls of Canton, 26th May (promoted Lieut.-Colonel); capture of the strongly-
fortified Island of Colongso, near Anioy, 26rh August; 2nd capture of Chusan, 1st October ;
assault and capture of citadel and city of Chinhae, lOMi October ; advance on and entry into
Ningpo, 13th October ; in garrison and command of Tay-woong-kaou fortress in the river and
near to Canton, from 6ih April to 24th May 1841; and on similar duties at Ningpo and
Chusan, with Bittalion of Royal Marines, from lOth October to 27th January 1842, following
(Medal for China and C£., also the War Medal with two Clasps).