The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes — John Shaqi
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
5th son of John Campbell, of Melfort, by Colina, dau. of John
Campbell, of Auchalader. In 1792 he ran away from Perth Academy, and
entered himself on the books of a ship bound for the West Indies. He
was met in the fruit market at Kingston, Jamaica, by his brother
Patrick (aftds. an admiral), a lieut. on board a man-of-war, who
brought him home. In 1793 became a midshipman on board an East
Indiaman. Two years later we find him serving as a lieut. in the 3rd
Batt. Breadalbane Fencibles, and in 1799 he was appointed ens. in a
West India Regt. Exchanged to the Ross-shire Buffs, and as capt.,
served under Sir A. Wellesley at the storming of Ahmednuggur, where
his distinguished gallantry won him a brevet majority. At Assaye he
had two horses shot under him, and was severely wounded. He
accompanied Sir A. Wellesley to the Peninsula, and was for a
considerable time on the staff of the army. For his services in
Spain he obtained the gold cross with six clasps, and in Jan., 1815,
was made K.C.B. He was a splendid soldier, but a bad French scholar.
“When he wished his dinner to be arranged on the table, he used, as
it were, to address the dishes, ‘_Bif-teck venez içi! Petits pâtés
allez là!_’” (anecdote by Wellington). Was Governor of Ceylon from
1840–7. During his residence there he frequently heard from his
great chief, Wellington, his attached friend. “We are both growing
old,” wrote the Duke to Campbell; “God knows if we shall ever meet
again. Happen what may, I shall never forget our first meeting under
the walls of Ahmednuggur.” Sir Colin returned to England in June,
1847, and d. on the 13th of same month, in London, aged seventy-one,
and was buried in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly.
BRITISH AND HANOVERIAN ARMY
AT
WATERLOO,
_As formed in Divisions and Brigades on the 18th June, 1815._
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CAVALRY.
Commanded by Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of UXBRIDGE, G.C.B.
_1st Brigade._—Commanded by Major-Gen. Lord EDWARD SOMERSET, K.C.B.
1st Life Guards Lieut.-Col. Ferrior.
2nd ” Lieut.-Col. the Hon. E.P. Lygon.
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) Lieut.-Col. Sir Robert Hill.
1st Dragoon Guards Lieut.-Col. Fuller (Col.).
_2nd Brigade._—Major Gen. Sir WILLIAM PONSONBY, K.C.B.
1st, or Royal Dragoons Lieut.-Col. A.B. Clifton.
2nd (or Royal N.B.) Dragoons Lieut.-Col. J.I. Hamilton.
6th, or Inniskilling Dragoons Lieut.-Col. J. Muter (Col.).
_3rd Brigade._—Major-Gen. W.B. DORNBERG.
23rd Light Dragoons Lieut.-Col. the Earl of
Portarlington (Col.).
1st ” K.G.L. Lieut.-Col. J. Bulow.
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