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30 Wai' Services of the General Officers.
shipman in the Navy, and was engaged in the attack of the French Fleet by Admiral Corawallis on
the 21st Aug. 1803. Assisted in the disembarkation of tlie British Army in Portugal in Aug. 1808,
and at its embarkation during and after the baftle of Corunna in 1809. Accompanied the
expedition to Walclieren the same year, and served in the squadron of gun-boats in the Si;heldt
covering the disembarkation of the army, and at the bombardment and capture of the fortresses
of Ter Vere, Ramakins, and Flushing. Landed with a division of sailors on the Island of
Soutli Btveland, and was present at the taking of Fort B:itz, and at the subsequent defence and
repulse of the enemy in their repeated efforts to repossess themselves of that important post;
also in frequent gun-boat actions co-operating with the army during their evacuation of those
islands in 1810. He quitted the Navy and entered the Army in Feb. 1811, and joined the 4th
Regt. in Portugal in August of the same year, and served in that corps and the 77th, into which
he was promoted from that period, to the termination of that war in 1814, without being a day
absent from his llegt. Ho was present at the siege and storming of Badajoz, at the operations
on the Bidassoa and Adour, and aOfixirs at St. Jean de Luz, and at the Mayor's House in front
of Bidart in Dec. 1813, and at the investment of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie. Ho has
received the War Medal with one Clasp for Badajoz.
126 Major General Nepean served in the Peninsula with the 16th Light Dragoons and was
present at the battle of the Nive on the 9th Dec. 1813, for which action he has receiTcd the War
Medal with one Clasp. He served also th'e Waterloo campaign.
127 Major General Trevor served with the 33rd in Germany and Holland in 1813 and 14,
including both attacks on Merxem, operations in front of Antwerp, and the storming of
Bcrgen-op-Zoom. Served also the campaign of 1815, including the action at Quatre Bras,
retreat on the following day, battle of "Waterloo, advance to and capture of Paris. Also in
Jamaica with the 33rd, and in China with the 59th.
128 Lord Albemarle served the Waterloo campaign with the 14th Foot,
129 Major General Barlow served as a General in the trenches during the siege of Sebas-
topol, and commanded a Brigade at its fall (Medal and Clasp, Sardinian Medal, Turkish
Medal, and 3rd Class of the Jledjidie).
130 Major General J. N. Jackson served in the Peninsula from 1810 to the end of the war in
1814, iocludiag the siege of Caliz, Lines at Torres Vedras, Massena's retreat from Portugal,
actions and affairs at Pombal, llediaha, Leira, Condeixa, Fleur-dc-Lis, Guarda, Foz d'Arouce,
and Sabufal; battle of Fuentes d'Onor, 3rd and 5th May, siege of Eidajoz in June and July,
1811, actions at El Bodon and Guinaldo, siego and storm of Ciudad llodrigo, third siege of
Badajoz and storm of the Castle by escalade, Gth April 1812; battle of Salamanca, capture of
Madrid, the Iletiro, and Fort La China, and in command of an escort of the third Division in
charge of the garrison of Fort La China en route to Ciudad Rodrigo. Retreat to Portugal,
Oct. and Nov. 1812, battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes; actions at Vic
Bigorre and Tarbes, battle of Toulouse, and all the various minor affairs during that period.
He has received the War Medal and ten Clasps.
131 Major General Trydell served at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and was
present at the battle of Blueberg. He served also in the Kandian Insurrection of 1817 and 18,
in Ceylon.
132 Major General John Clark served the campaign of 1815, including the battle of Waterloo
and storming of Cambray. Served also the campaigns of 1824 and 25 in Ava, including the taking
of Rangoon, Kimendine, Kamaroot, and Mahattee. Led the attack upon the fjrtitied heights
at Aracan, and was severely wounded in the reck, arm, and left side.
133 Major General Elors Napier was present with the Nizam's Subsidiary Force at the in¬
vestment of Hyderabad in 1830. Served on the British Staff in the Syrian campaign of
1840-41, with the local rank of Lt.Culonel and Assistant Adjutant General; held a respon¬
sible and independent command of an Irregular Force in the Naplouse mountains ; afterwards
employed as Commissiontr with a portion of the Turkish army (Brevet of Lt.Colonel, Syrian
Medal and Gold Modal from the Sultan). Was subsequently employed on Diplomatic Missions
by Lord Aberdeen and Lord Palmerston,—first, to bring back from the interior of Africa the
chiefs of Mount Lebanon, who had been seized by Ibrahim Paslia and sent by Mehcmet Ali to
work in the mines of Sennaar ; and, secondly, to convey back to Beyrout several thousand
Syrian soldiers, who, contrary to the terms of tlie convention, had been retained in Egypt
—was successful in the accomplishment of both these Missions. Was eniplojed on the staff,
with rank of Assist. Adjutant General, in the Kiffir war of 1840-47 (Medal), during which
was in charge of Native Levies and Irregular troops attached to the 1st division, and organized
a body of Irregular Horse, the nucleus of what subsequently became the Kaffir Mounted Police.
134 Major General Harvey commanded a Brigade at the capture of the Mabratta fortresses
of Panulla and Pownughur, Dec. 1844
135 Sir John Michel was nominated a CB. after the termination of the Kaffir war in
1353, in consideration of his distinguished services in the Kaffir wars of 1846-47 and of 1851-3
(Medal). Was nominated to the 2nd Class of the Aledjidie for service with the late Turkish
Contingent. Served in the Indian Campaign in 1858-59 in command of the Mhow field force,
and defeated the rebels under Tantia Topee at Beorora taking 27 guns, subsequently actively
engaged in pursuing the fugitive bands {KCB. and Medal). Is now in command of a division
of the Army on active service in China.
136 Major General Warren served under the Duke of Wellington in 1815. Commanded the
55th Regt. in an expedition against the Rajah of Coorg in April 1834 (Colonel Mill being in
comuiand of the column until a few days before he was killed): led a successful assault on and
captured the stockade of Kissenhally; and was severely wounded in an attack on the stockade