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
Son of Alexander Fraser, 15th Lord Saltoun, by Margaret, only dau. and
heir of Simon Fraser, of Ness Castle. Saw much service in the Pa. Had
four horses shot under him whilst defending Hougomont without (Col.
M’Donell defending within). “Towards the close of Waterloo day he
returned to his place in the line with about but one-third of the men
with whom he had gone into action. He then took a prominent part in
the last celebrated charge of the Guards.” K.T.; K.C.B.; G.C.H.;
K.M.T.; K.St.G. Lt.-Gen. and Col.-in-Chf. 2nd Foot. Commanded a
brigade in the war with China, 1842. Was justly described by
Wellington, on one occasion, as a “pattern to the army both as man and
soldier.” M. a natural dau. of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, and d. s. p.
18th August, 1853, near Rothes.
Footnote 11:
Eldest son of Wm. Reeve, of Leadenham House, Grantham, by Millicent,
dau. of Capt. John King, of 1st Foot Guards. Attained the rank of Gen.
and Col.-in-Chf. 61st Regt. Had served in the Pa., and at Walcheren.
M., 11th July, 1821, Lady Susan Sherard, dau. of Philip, 5th Earl of
Harborough, and had issue. D. 3rd Oct., 1864.
Footnote 12:
D. at Brussels on 19th June, 1815, of wounds received at Quatre Bras.
On being wounded he sent for his friend, Col. C. Thomas, and said, “I
feel I am mortally wounded, but I am pleased to think it is my fate
rather than yours, whose life is involved in that of your young wife.”
After a pause, he said: “I should like to see the colours of the regt.
before I quit them for ever.” They were brought and waved round his
wounded body. “His countenance brightened, he smiled, declared himself
well satisfied, and was carried from the field.” M.I. at Waterloo. Was
2nd son of Sir William Miller, Bart. (a lord of session by title of
Lord Glenlee), by Grizel, dau. of George Chalmers, of co. Fife.
Footnote 13:
3rd son of Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope, by his 2nd wife, Louisa, dau.
and sole heir of the Hon. Henry Grenville, Gov. of Barbados. Bn. 7th
Sept., 1788. M. 9th July, 1820, the Hon. Frederica Murray, dau. of 3rd
Earl of Mansfield, and had issue. Placed on h. p. 28th Feb., 1822. D.
5th March, 1825.
Footnote 14:
C.B. for Waterloo. Quitted the service in 1820. Brother to the John
Colquit who, as capt. in this regt. highly distinguished himself at
the taking of Seville in 1812, and d. of his wounds soon after.
Goodwin Colquit m. Miss Wallace, of Kelly, N.B., and had issue.
Footnote 15:
2nd son of Sir Robert Milnes, Bart., by Charlotte, 3rd dau. of Capt.
J.A. Bentinck, R.N. D. from his wounds, 20th June, 1815. M.I. at
Waterloo.
Footnote 16:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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