Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Tenth, or the North Lincolnshire, Regiment of Foot,: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of its Subsequent Services to 1847
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot
GENERAL SIR JOHN LAMBERT, G.C.B. entered the army as an Ensign in
the First Foot Guards in January, 1791; he was promoted to the
rank of Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel on the 9th October 1793;
he served in the campaign of 1793 in Flanders, was present at the
siege of Valenciennes, the action of Lincelles, and the siege of
Dunkirk. He served also with the Foot Guards in Ireland during
the rebellion in 1798. In 1799 he embarked with the expedition
to Holland, and was present in the actions of the 27th August,
10th and 19th September, and 2nd and 6th October of that year. He
embarked for the Peninsula and served with Lieut.-General Sir John
Moore in 1808 and 1809, and was present with him at the battle of
Corunna. In 1809 he commanded the Light Companies of the First and
Third Brigades of Foot Guards in the expedition to the Scheldt, and
attained the rank of Colonel on 25th July, 1810. In May 1811 he
embarked in command of the Third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards
for Cadiz, from whence he proceeded in January 1812 with a Brigade
to Carthagena. He returned to Cadiz on the 15th April, and assumed
the command of the Reserve in the Isla de Leon, and in October of
that year he joined the main army at Salamanca. He was promoted to
the rank of Major-General on the 4th June, 1813, and was appointed
to the Staff of the Army under Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
in the Peninsula; he commanded a Brigade in the Sixth Division at
the Battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse, for which he
received the distinction of a Cross. He was subsequently appointed
to the Staff of the Division of the Army sent to America in 1814,
and took part in the attack on New Orleans in January 1815, and
at the siege of Fort Bowyer; he succeeded to the command of that
division of the Army on the deaths of Major-Generals Pakenham and
Gibbs. He returned from America in the spring of 1815, and arrived
in sufficient time to take the command of a Brigade in the campaign
of 1815, and to participate in the victory obtained at Waterloo.
He was appointed to the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot on
the 18th January 1824; he attained the rank of Lieutenant-General
on 27th May 1825, and that of General on 23rd November 1841. In
addition to the order of G.C.B., he was a Knight of the Third
Class of Wladimir of Russia, and Commander of the Bavarian order
of Maximilian Joseph. His decease took place on the 14th September
1847.
SIR THOMAS M'MAHON, BART. and K.C.B.
_Appointed from 94th Regiment, 28th September, 1847._
APPENDIX.
_Battles, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign of
King_ WILLIAM III., _from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick, in 1697._
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