Volunteer de Courcy Ireland, and Serjeant-Major McKeldon, were also promoted to be ensigns for their conduct in this action.
[14] In a letter, dated the 21st of January 1812, from General Viscount Wellington, K.B., to the Earl of Liverpool, Secretary of State, appeared the following tribute from that illustrious commander to the conduct of the troops at Tarifa:—“I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration of the conduct of Colonel Skerrett, and the brave troops under his command, nor from recommending them to the protection of your Lordship.”
[15] History of the War in the Peninsular and in the South of France, by Lieut.-General Sir William Napier, K.C.B.
[16] Major-General John Randoll McKenzie, who fell at Talavera on the 28th of July 1809.
[17] Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Picton, G.C.B., who was killed at Waterloo on the 18th of June 1815.
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
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