====== Thomas Prior's Service during the Napoleonic Wars ======

  * 3 May 1811: ‘sailed for Portugal … under Lt. General Sir H.J. Cumming, Colonel of the 12th Lancers’.
  * 25 September 1811: in the Battle of [[wp>Battle_of_El_Bod%C3%B3n|El Bodon]], Portugal.\\
  * 22 July 1812: awarded the 'War medal with clasp’ for service during the 1812 [[wp>Battle_of_Salamanca|battle of Salamanca]].\\
  * Spring (March-June) 1815: arrived in Flanders.\\
  * 17 June 1815: Commanded skirmishes as officer of the 18th Hussars, and receiving 'the first fire of the enemy’ on Namur Road.\\
  * 18 June 1815: In decisive [[wp>Battle_of_Waterloo|Battle of Waterloo]], Belgium, when Napoleon was finally defeated.\\
  * 18 June - 3 July 1815: Took part in the capture of Paris, receiving another medal.\\
  * 23 September 1815: found guilty by a military court of ‘publicly berating a French actor at the Boulogne Theatre’, losing 6 months Army and Regimental rank.\\
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Source: //The United Service Gazette// c. 1846 in Praed papers 10/7/1a, QJO.