The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper
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[Footnote 4: The name of this ancient family, second to none in wealth
and station, became extinct in Guernsey, in 1810, on the death of Osmond De Beauvoir, Esq., when his large property was inherited by distant relatives.--_Duncan's History of Guernsey_.] [Footnote 5: Major-General Le Marchant and his eldest son, a captain in the Foot Guards, who both fell in Spain during the late war, and Captain Philip Saumarez, who was Lord Anson's first lieutenant in the Centurion, and was slain in 1747, while commanding the Nottingham, of 64 guns, were members of those families.] [Footnote 6: Brock street, at Bath, was named after him by the projector, in testimony of friendship.] [Footnote 7: New Annual Register for 1799, page 395.] [Footnote 8: See the returns in the New Annual Register, for 1799, Principal Occurrences, page 143. Singularly enough, the loss of the non-commissioned officers and privates in each corps is not given, but the casualties among the officers of the 49th exceeded those of any other regiment engaged on this day, with the exception of the 25th and 92d.] [Footnote 9: Afterwards Sir John Moore, who fell at Corunna.] [Footnote 10: Lieut.-Colonel Smith, commanding the 20th, a native of Guernsey, afterwards Colonel Sir George Smith, aide-de-camp to the king. He died at Cadiz, in 1809, and was a distinguished officer.] [Footnote 11: The present General Lord Aylmer, G.C.B., formerly |
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