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Service record during the Napoleonic War
* 3 May 1811: ‘sailed for Portugal … under Lt. General Sir H.J. Cumming, Colonel of the 12th Lancers’.1)
- 25 September 1811: in the battle of El Bodon, Portugal.
- 22 July 1812: awarded the 'War medal with clasp’ for service during the 1812 battle of Salamanca.
- Spring (March-June) 1815: arrived in Flanders.2)
- 17 June 1815: Commanded skirmishes as officer of the 18th Hussars, and receiving 'the first fire of the enemy’ on Namur Road.3)
- 18 June 1815: In decisive Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, when Napoleon was finally defeated.
- 18 June - 3 July 1815: Took part in the capture of Paris, receiving another medal.4)
- 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.5)|