A List of Foreign Officers, Europeans (not Spaniards) and North Americans, who served in the patriot armies in Chile and Peru, between the years 1817 and 1830, showing the killed, wounded, and not wounded.
[The rank specified is that which each officer held when killed, or in 1830.]
Killed.
Major-Gen. Frederic Brandsen (French).—Served on the staff of the French army under Prince Eugène. Killed at the battle of Ituzaingo, Feb. 20, 1827.
Major-Gen. James Whittle (Irish).—Was present at the battles of Junin and Ayacucho. Killed in suppressing the mutiny of a battalion near Quito in 1830.
Colonel Charles O'Carrol (Irish).—Served in the British and Spanish armies in the Peninsula. Killed in an encounter with the Araucanians at Pangal in 1831.
Colonel William Ferguson (Irish).—Present at the battles of Junin and Ayacucho. Killed in defending General Bolivar from assassins at Bogota on September 25th, 1828.
Colonel Peter Raulet (French).—Was a cornet in the French cavalry at Badajoz, when that place was taken by storm on April 6th, 1812, and remained a prisoner of war in Scotland until the peace of 1814. Married and left children in South America. Killed at the battle of the Portete, Feb. 27th, 1829.
Colonel William de Vic Tupper (Guernsey).—Married and left children in the country. Killed at the battle of Sircay, April 17th, 1830.
Lieut.-Col. James A. Charles (English.)—Served in the Brigade Royal Artillery, and joined the Lusitanian Legion under the late General Sir Robert Wilson in Portugal in 1808. Upon Sir Robert being appointed Military Commissioner with the Russian army, he served as his aide-de-camp in the campaigns of Russia and Germany, and received the crosses of St. George of Russia, of Merit of Prussia, and of Maria Theresa of Austria. Killed in the action of Pisco on November 7th, 1819.
Lieut.-Col. Charles Sowersby (German).—Killed in the action of Junin, August 6th, 1824.
Major William Gumer (German).—Killed at the battle of Ica, April 7th, 1822.
Major Thomas Duxbury (English).—Present at the battle of Junin. Killed in the affair at Matara, Dec. 3rd, 1824.
Captain Quitospi (Russian).—Killed in an encounter with the Araucanians on the Bio-Bio, 1818.
Captain Joseph Borne (Irish).—Married, and left children in the country. Killed in an encounter at Arauco, May 1820.
Captain John B. Gola (French).—Killed in an encounter at San Carlos, 1821.
Captain Robert Bell (English).—Killed at the battle of Sircay, April 17th, 1830.
Lieut. Charles Eldredge (U.S.).—Killed at the assault of Talcahuano, December 6th, 1817.
Lieut. Ernest Bruix (French), son of Admiral Bruix.—Killed in an encounter with the Araucanians on the Bio-Bio, January 1819.
Lieut. —— Gerard (Scotch).—Killed at the battle of Cancha-rayada, March 19th, 1818.
Lieut. Le Bas (French).—Killed in the affair of Biobamba, April 22nd, 1822.
Lieut. Chris. Martin (English).—Killed near Ayacucho in 1824.
Cornet Danviette (French).—Killed in an encounter at Caucato near Pisco, in 1822.
Surgeon William Welsh (Scotch).—Killed in the action of Mirabe, on May 21st, 1821.
Total Killed .. .. 21.
Wounded.
Lieut.-Gen. Wm. Miller (English).—(See ante.)
Major-Gen. Francis B. O'Connor (Irish).—Brother to the late Fergus O'Connor. Was for some time Chief of the Staff of the Liberating Army, and was present at the battles of Junin and Ayacucho; was wounded at Rio de la Hacha in 1820. He is now residing on his estate at Tarija, in Bolivia. Married and has children in the country.
Major-Gen. Arthur Sands (Irish).—Wounded at the battle of Pantano de Bargas, July 25, 1819. Was present at the battles of Junin and Ayacucho. Died at Cuenca in 1832.
Major-Gen. Daniel F. O'Leary (Irish).—Wounded at Pantano de Bargas. He was Aide-de-Camp to General Bolivar in Columbia and Peru, and subsequently H.B.M. Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General at Bogota, where he died in 1854, having married and left children in the country.
Major-Gen. Philip Braun (German).—Present at the battle of Ayacucho. He was wounded at Junin, August 6th, 1824. He married in the country, and now resides in Bolivia.
Colonel George Beauchef (French).—Was at the battles of Austerlitz, Jena, Marengo, and Friedland. Wounded at the assault upon Talcahuano, December 6th, 1817. Died in Chile 1840, having married and left children in the country.
Lieut.-Col. Edward Guitekue (German).—Wounded in the action of Pisco, November 7, 1819. Died in Chile 1857. Married and left children in the country.
Lieut.-Col. Eugène Giroust (French).—Wounded at the cutting-out of the 'Esmeralda' under the fortresses of Callao, Nov. 5th, 1820. Was page to King Jerome; served in the French Horse Artillery; was made prisoner at the crossing of the Beresina, and sent to Siberia. Married in Peru, and is now residing at Lima.
Captain Philip Marguti (Italian).—Wounded at the battle of Maypo, April 5th, 1818. Died in Chile 1848.
Captain Henry Ross (U.S.).—Wounded at the battle of Yerbas-buenas, March 31st, 1813. Died in Chile.
Captain George Brown (English).—Present at the battle of Junin. Wounded at Ayacucho, Dec. 9th, 1824.
Captain James Lister (English).—Wounded in the affair of Rio Hacha in 1820. Died at St. John's, New Brunswick.
Captain Henry Hind (English).—Wounded in an attack on Callao, Oct. 2nd, 1819. Since dead.
Captain W. Kennedy (Jamaica).—Wounded in an encounter at Rio Cuarto, where both his eyes were shot out in 1821. Died some years afterwards in the United States.
Captain Danl. L. V. Carson (U. S.).—Wounded at the assault upon Talcahuano, Dec. 6th, 1817. Married and left children in the country. Died in Chile.
Captain Henry Wyman (English).—Present at the battle of Junin; wounded at Ayacucho in 1824. Is now residing in England. Married in South America.
Lieut. John Heldes (German).—Wounded at the battle of Cancha-rayada, March 19th, 1818. Since dead.
Lieut. James Lindsay (English).—Belonged to the expedition under General Beresford. Wounded at the battle of Maypo, April 5th, 1818. Married and left children in the country.
Total Wounded .. .. 18.