OR OFFICERS' COMPANION FOR February 1814. EMBELLISHMENTS. The Rt. Hon. Gen. Sir DAVID DUNDAS, K. B. Colonel of the King's Dragoon Guards, and of the 95th or Rifle Regt.; Governor of Chelsea Hospital. Map of Zealand, Dutch Flanders, and a Part of the Southern Provinces of Holland. Attack on St. Malo, in 1758 Observations on the Half-Pay Allowance to Officers of the British ArmyList of Allowances granted to Officers, who have been disabled from wounds; and to others, in consideration of long and meritorious services; as also to the relatives of certain deceased Officers of the Land Forces Narrative of the Murder of Lieut. Col. Fraser and Capt. M'Pherson, of the 78th Regt. at Probolingo, in the island of Java, May 18, 1813; with a Biographical Note of Lieut.-Col. Fraser Narrative of the Operations at St. Sebastian on the 25th of July and 31st of August, 1813, in which the Royals were most eminently distinguished 427 430 442 444 Division Orders, issued by MajorGen. Oswald, after the operations at St. Sebastian, on the 25th July 445 Column Orders, issued by General Graham after the fall of the Castle 449 of St. Sebastian CAMPAIGNS in the PENINSULA 451 Order issued by Field-Marshal Beresford, immediately after the storming of San Sebastian Gallant conduct of Col. Macbean at 456 the storming of Fort St. Sebastian 450 Battle of Tamames Battle of Ocana Page 452 456 458 Battle of Alba de Tormes The Field-Day; or a series of Infantry Movements of Attack and Defence for a Brigade of Infantry, forming part of an Army in the Field; &c. &c.-By E. Olferman, Capt. 97th regt. Brigade-Major, &c. 459 MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE. Plan for Cutting the Rigging, &c. of Vessels on their attempting to destroy Batteries or other Works 464 -- ib. On Courts-Martial and Arrests Military Rewards Military Rewards and Decorations for Colours 466 467 TO CORRESPONDENTS. Royal Military Panorama Office, Orchard-Street, Portman-Square, 29th January, 1814. MR. Fitzgerald's Address to the French Nation will be given in the following number. A continuation of this gentleman's communications will be always acceptable. We request those officers whose favours are inserted in the present number, to receive our warmest thanks: their contributions must be read with satisfaction and pleasure by the officers of the British Army. All officers having works in the press, are requested to communicate them to the Editor; they will find a ready insertion of the same in this work. Together with the following number will be published a SUPPLEMENT, which will conclude our Third Volume. The Supplement will be enriched with various important articles; and amongst others, a description of the different passages of the Rhine in the year 1796; the Life of Lord Cathcart; &c. &c.; and a very copious Index to this volume. A most correct and elegant Map of France, on a large scale, is in the hands of our engraver, Mr. Neale. It will be completed in Four parts; two of which will embellish the following Number and Supplement, and the remaining two will be given in the First and Second Numbers of the Fourth Volume of this work. Military Essays, Reviews of Military Works, Biographical Notes, Journals of Sieges, and every Military Operation, will at all times be particularly attended to; and the authors of such communications may rest assured that the Editor will preserve an inviolable secrecy as to their names, and when requested will confer with them personally on the subject of their communications. Major Olferman's interesting Military Essay will be concluded in this volume. As the Panorama is published in a manner that will always render it not only a useful and necessary, but also an elegant work for the confined library of the Military man, and to deserve a prominent place on the shelves of the scholar and the gentleman, it consequently requires very considerable time for printing and binding, and it is therefore requested that those correspondents who are desirous for an early publication of their favours, will transmit them at the commencement of each month, directed to the Editor, 33, Orchard-Street, Portman-Square. THE ROYAL Military Panorama, OR OFFICERS' COMPANION FOR FEBRUARY 1814. MILITARY BIOGRAPHY. The Right Honourable General SIR DAVID DUNDAS, K. B. Colonel of the King's Dragoon Guards, and of the 95th or Rifle Regiment; Governor of Chelsea Hospital. THE HE father of Sir David Dundas was a merchant of great respectability, residing in Edinburgh, a descendant from the ancient Scottish family of that name, and the father of several children. Sir David, from his earliest years, having shewn an attachment to the military profession, he was of course educated in a manner suitable to the situation and society into which the pursuit of arms might lead him. At the age of thirteen, he was placed at the military academy at Woolwich, where, after a residence of two years, he was appointed, in 1752, to assist in a survey of the kingdom of Scotland, then carrying on under the inspection of his maternal uncle, the late General Watson, at that time a Colonel in the army, and Quarter-Master-General and Senior Captain in the corps of engineers. On this service he continued three years, under the more immediate direction of his friend, the late Major-Gen. Roy. In the year 1754, he was appointed to a Lieutenancy in the Royal Regiment of Artillery; and in the year following was made a practitioner engineer. In the next year, viz. 1756, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the 56th Régiment, and also an Assistant Quarter-Master-General: and at the early age of twenty-one, this indefatigable officer joined a very considerable armament, then preparing, in the above situation. D d VOL. III. |