British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
Hay, Andrew
Hay, Andrew (1762 - 14 April 1814)
Ensign 1st Foot 1779, Lieutenant 1st Foot 1781,Captain 88th
Foot* 1783, Half-pay 1783,Captain 1st Foot 1784, Half-pay 1786, Major
129th Foot+ 1795, Major 93rd Foot^ 1795,
Half-pay 1797-1798, Major 73rd Foot 1803,Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
1800 [anterdated to 1798], Lieutenant-Colonel 16th Battalion
of Reserve# 1803,Lieutenant-Colonel 72nd 1804,
Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Foot 1807, Temporary Colonel 1798, Brevet
Colonel 1808, Brigadier General on the Staff 1810-1811, Major General
1811.
*disbanded 1783. +disbanded 1796. ^disbanded 1797. #renamed 16th
Garrison Battalion 1804.
Portugal & Spain: Spain 1808 and at Corunna 1809.
Peninsular War: Commanded brigade 5th Division October 1810-June
1812, December 1812, April-October 1813 and January-April 1814.
Temporarily commanded 5th Division January -April 1813 and October
1813-December 1813. Killed in action at siege of Bayonne
1814.
Other service:Commanded a brigade on Walcheren 1809
Colonel of the Duke of York’s Own Banffshire Fencibles 1798-1802,
York Chasseurs 1813-1814.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: April 2009
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