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  • 1810 Promoted major-general,

  • 1811 he returned to the Peninsula to fill a divisional command under Duke Of Wellington .

  • 1812 During the Battle Of Salamanca , his division played a notable part in the capture of the forts.

  • 1813 given the local rank of lieutenant general.

  • For his conduct at Vitoria he was made a KCB , and he took his part in the subsequent victories of the Nive, Orthes and Toulouse. At the end of the Peninsula War he was made a lieutenant general and inspector-general of infantry.


  • 1815 During the Battle Of Waterloo he commanded the troops that threw back Napoleon's Imperial Guard at the end of the battle.

  • 1829 December 11 he died.




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