The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and AnecdotesDalton, Charles
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The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Dalton, Charles
Great Britain. Army -- Registers; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
H. p. 1818.
Footnote 24:
Serving in 1817. Out of the regt. before 1824.
Footnote 25:
Capt. 31st Oct., 1822. Retd. as h. p. maj. 9th Foot, 1838. D. in
March, 1860.
Footnote 26:
Capt. 18th Oct., 1821. Exchanged to 33rd Foot 20th March, 1823. Capt.
Ceylon Rifles 25th Sept., 1824. Serving 1830.
Footnote 27:
Afterwards Lt. C.T. Cox, h. p. 71st Highland Light Infantry. Entered
the Army in 1809. Was engaged in numerous battles during the campaigns
from 1810 to 1815, including the retreat to and the occupation of the
lines of Torres Vedras, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes,
Tarbes, and Toulouse. At Vittoria he was sev. wnded, a musket ball
having passed through the lungs and lodged in the body. He was taken
prisoner, but the enemy being hard pressed, he was left on the field.
He was present at the capture of Paris. Commissions dated: Ensign,
June 29, 1809; Lt., May 29, 1811. D. 1875.
Footnote 28:
3rd son of James Lewin, of Cloghans, co. Mayo. Retd. on h. p. as a lt.
from 19th Lt. Dns. in 1822. D. s. p. 1844.
Footnote 29:
H. p. 25th Oct., 1821.
Footnote 30:
Son of Capt. Torriano, 30th Foot, who was killed in action at Toulon,
15th Oct., 1793, and grandson of Capt. C. Torriano, R.A., wounded and
disabled for life at the battle of Laffeldt, 1st July, 1747. Lieut.
Wm. Torriano joined the 1st Batt. 71st in 1811 and proceeded to
Portugal. Promoted lieut. into 2nd Batt. at home, but remained with
1st Batt. in the field until the return of the army from France. Was
present at Arroyos des Molinos, Almaraz, with covering army before
Badajoz; severely wounded at Vittoria and taken prisoner, but shortly
after retaken at Nive; Bayonne (twice wounded); Orthes, and Toulouse,
besides many minor affairs. A French reserve battery was captured by
the 71st towards the close of the battle of Waterloo, and Siborne
(Vol. II., p. 234) narrates how “some men of the right flank company
of the 71st, under Lieut. Torriano, immediately turned round one of
the guns, which was then discharged into the retiring columns of the
Imperial Guard by Capt. Campbell, A.D.C. to Major-General Adam, and
was, there is reason to believe, the last French gun fired on that
day.” Adjt. 18th Oct., 1821. Retd. 1824 by the sale of his commission.
D. at Budleigh Salterton, Devonshire, 1862. Above information
communicated by Col. C. Torriano, late R.A.
Footnote 31:
2nd son of Thomas Horton, of Howroyde, co. York, by Lady Mary Gordon,
dau. of George, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen. Served in the Pa. Capt. 81st
Regt. 1820; Bt.-maj. 1821; Lt.-col., unattached, 1826; Col. 1842. M.,
1826, Frances, dau. of Rev. Wm. Garnier, rector of Rookesbury, Hants,
and had issue. Living 1876.
Footnote 32:
Retd. f. p. 1821. D. at Halifax, N.S., 1st Oct., 1852.
Footnote 33:
H. p. 25th Dec., 1818.
Footnote 34:
H. p. 25th Dec., 1818.
Footnote 35:
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