in command of his old brigade alone, on retaking the field, and was well employed on an arduous service, detached from the rest of the division, in the battle of Vittoria, in the course of which he was slightly wounded in the left hand. He continued with his brigade in the operations attendant on the advance and retreat of the enemy in the Pyrenees in the month of July,

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Major-General Colville commanded the 6th division in the position of Maya, with the 3rd and Portuguese division in support, from the 1st of August to November, when he was re-appointed to the command of the 3rd division, with which he stormed the heights of Sarre, and followed the enemy to those on the other side of the Nivelle on the 10th of November. He assisted in the operations on both sides of the Nive until their termination in the attack made on Lord Hill's position on the 13th of December.

Major-General Colville being again superseded by Sir Thomas Picton, he was placed permanently in command of the 5th division; with it he was employed from the 21st of February, 1814, in the close investment of Bayonne on the South of the Adour, and on Sir John Hope being made prisoner on the sortie from the citadel, he commanded the left column of the army, until it was broken up, and the last of the embarkation which took place at Passages.

The 10th of October, 1812, Major-General Colville had been gazetted to the Colonelcy of the 5th garrison battalion ; in January, 1815, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath, and in March following was advanced to the dignity of a Grand Cross of that order.

On the 5th of April, 1815, he was appointed to serve in the army then assembling under the Duke of Wellington in the Netherlands, with the rank of Lieutenant-General; and joining immediately after, he obtained the command of the 4th division.

Being, at the moment of Buonaparte's advance, on the right of the line of cantonments, with the exception of the brigade under the command of Colonel Mitchell, of the 51st regiment, the 4th division did not share in the glories of the field of Waterloo, but being first halted, on the 17th, at Braine le Comte,

were ordered, on the morning of the 18th of June, to fall back and occupy, in conjunction with the Dutch division, under Prince Frederick of Orange, the positions in front of Halle.

On the immediately-subsequent advance into France, the Duke of Wellington entrusted to the Lieutenant-General, with the 4th division, one brigade of cavalry and three of artillery, an attack upon Cambray, and the success of which gave his Grace the satisfaction of placing Louis the 18th in possession of a most important fortress, from which he could, with good effect, issue his proclamations, while it at the same time opened to his own army a 'safe and direct line of march, without the loss of a day to be taken from his general plan of operations, and with the loss of only about thirty men killed and wounded.

The 29th of April, 1815, Sir Charles Colville was appointed Colonel of the late 94th regiment of foot, and the 12th of August, 1819, he received the rank of Lieutenant-General.

Sir Charles Colville has the honor of wearing a Cross and one Clasp on account of the capture of Martinique, the battles of Fuentes D'Onor, Vittoria, and the Nivelle, and the siege of Badajoz. In addition to having the Order of the Bath, he is a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Sir Charles Colville is now serving on the Staff at Bombay.

292. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE.

THIS officer entered the service in 1782 as an Ensign in the 64th foot; in 1783 he was appointed Lieutenant in the 16th; in 1784 he received a company in the 96th, and was placed on half-pay; in 1786 he obtained a company in the 16th foot; and in 1789, he was appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 1st foot guards. In 1793 he was appointed Brigade-Major to the guards employed in the campaigns in Flanders; he was present at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and at the action and storming of Lincelles. The 5th of September, 1796, he was appointed to a company, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in his regiment. The 1st of January, 1805, he

received the rank of Colonel; in May, 1808, he was appointed Brigadier-General in Sicily, in which island he served three years. The 25th of July, 1810, he received the rank of MajorGeneral; and the 12th of August, 1819, that of LieutenantGeneral.

As Major-General this officer served for some time on the Staff in Ireland.

293. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GORE BROWNE.

THIS officer entered the service the 5th of July, 1780, as an Ensign in the 35th, in which rank he served six months in North America, and three years and a half in the West Indies. The 13th of March, 1789, he obtained his Lieutenancy; the 8th of June, 1793, was appointed Captain in the 83d foot; and the 15th of July, 1794, Major. As Major he served in the West Indies one year and a half. The 30th of November, 1796, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 7th West India regiment; and the 5th of August, 1799, LieutenantColonel of the 40th foot. He again served in the West Indies one year, and afterwards in the expedition to Holland: he was present in the battles of the 10th and 19th of September, and 2nd of October, 1799. The 1st of January, 1805, he received the Colonelcy of the 40th. He served in the expedition to South America, where he commanded the brigade that carried the town and fortress of Monte Video by assault; also in the expedition to Walcheren as Brigadier-General, and was there wounded. The 25th of July, 1810, he received the rank of Major-General; the 21st of May, 1813, the Colonelcy of the late 6th garrison battalion; and the same year was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth. The 12th of August, 1819, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General.

294. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

LEWIS LINDENTHALL, K.C.

THIS officer, having joined the British army under the Duke of York in Flanders, received the rank of Major, and was appointed an Assistant Quarter-Master-General. On the return

of that army to England, he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby to the West Indies, and was present at the taking of St. Lucie, &c. In 1796 he obtained the rank of LieutenantColonel, by being appointed Deputy Quarter-Master-General in Portugal; and the 26th of December, 1798, he received the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 97th foot. He served with the late Sir Charles Stuart, at the taking of Minorca: from thence he was sent to Malta; and lastly, with Sir Ralph Abercromby to Egypt. He was at the battles of the 18th and 21st of March; since which he has not been employed on foreign service. The 1st of January, 1805, he received the brevet of Colonel; of Major-General the 25th of July, 1810; and of Lieutenant-General the 12th of August, 1819.

Lieutenant-General Lindenthall received the insignia of the Crescent for his services in Egypt.

295. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ROGER COGHLAN.

THIS officer entered the service by purchasing a Lieutenancy in the 88th regiment, in the year 1779, with which corps he proceeded to Jamaica in the same year. He was removed, in 1780, to the 1st battalion of the 60th regiment, then in Jamaica, and appointed Adjutant to the battalion in 1781. A short time previous to the reduction of the 3d and 4th battalions of the 60th, he resigned his Adjutancy. The junior officers of each rank in the four battalions being selected for reduction, he was reduced to half-pay as a Lieutenant in 1783. In the following year he paid the regulated difference to return to full pay, and re-joined the 1st battalion 60th regiment at Jamaica. In 1786, this battalion went from Jamaica to Nova Scotia. In January, 1788, he purchased a company in the 66th regiment, and joined it at Saint Vincent's, in the Leeward Islands, from whence the 66th arrived at Gibraltar in 1793. In 1795 he obtained, by purchase, a Majority in the 134th regiment, and was ordered from Gibraltar to join that corps at Dundee, in North Britain. Before he arrived in England it was reduced, but the officers were continued on full pay. This inactive situation was not conformable to his wishes, and he therefore sought an

immediate opportunity to be employed. The West Indies being the principal scene of action, he availed himself of an exchange, in January, 1796, to the 82d regiment then at Saint Domingo, and soon after his arrival he succeeded to the command of the regiment, the 1st Major having died from a wound, and both the Lieutenant-Colonels having died of that most dreadful malady, the yellow fever. The thus vacant LieutenantColonelcies were filled up, one by the removal of the present Lieutenant-General Wetherall from a black corps, and the other by promoting Major Charlton from the 3rd dragoon guards, (then in England) who immediately after was removed from the 82d to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 3d dragoon guards, by purchase; this leaving a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 82d regiment for sale, it was purchased by this officer in December, 1796. The few officers who survived, and the remains of the regiment not amounting to the number allowed to be borne on the establishment as non-commissioned officers, and even those few nearly exhausted and worn out from the ravages of the climate, returned to England, from St. Domingo, in November, 1798. In 1799, under the first act permitting the militia to volunteer into the line, the 82d regiment was, by the exertions of this officer, completed to about 1,100 rank and file. In 1800 the regiment embarked for Ireland, and after remaining there a few months proceeded to Minorca, where it continued till the evacuation of that island in 1802, when it returned to Ireland. On the 1st of January, 1805, he was appointed a Colonel in the army; in the August following, his health, which was greatly impaired by complaints contracted in the West Indies, was so much injured by the moist air and damp climate of Ireland, that as there was no probability of the regiment being removed from that country, he was, very reluctantly, compelled to follow the advice repeatedly given to him by some of the most eminent of the faculty, and retire on half-pay of the 14th garrison battalion, in order to attend to the recovery of his health. He left the 82d in the highest order and best state of discipline, after having commanded it upwards of nine years, (Lieutenant-Colonel Wetherall having been on staff-employ all the time he belonged to the regiment). In the course of 18