British Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
Dalrymple, Hew Whitefoord
By: Ron McGuigan
Dalrymple, Hew Whitefoord (3 December 1750 - 9 April
1830)
Ensign 31st Foot 1763, Lieutenant 31st Foot 1766, Captain 1st Foot
1768, Major 77th Foot* 1777, Lieutenant Colonel 68th Foot 1781, Captain
& Lieutenant Colonel 1st Foot Guards 1783, Lieutenant Colonel 66th
Foot 1796, Brevet Colonel 1790, Major General 1794, Lieutenant General
Guernsey 1799, Lieutenant General 1801, General 1812. *disbanded c.1783
Early service: Minorca 1768, Flanders 1793-1794, on Home Staff 1795,
Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey 1796-1801, on Home Staff 1802-1806,
Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar 1806-1808.
Portugal & Spain: Commander-in-Chief Portugal 1808. Recalled to
face Convention of Cintra Inquiry 1808.
Knighted 1779. Created a Baronet 1814. Colonel of 81st Foot, 1797-1798,
37th Foot 1798-1810, 19th Foot 1810-1811, 57th Foot 1811-1830.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: October 2006
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