. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Irisli privy council. Having been ordered to the Peninsula, in thebeginning of November 1808 he arrived at Co-runna, in command of about 10,000 men, andformed a junction with the army under GeneralSir John Moore. In the battle of Corunna, Janu-ary 16, 1809, he commanded the first division ofthe army, and lost his left arm. On tlie death ofSir John Moore, he succeeded to the chief com-mand, and on communicating the intelligence oftlie victory to government, he received for
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Irisli privy council. Having been ordered to the Peninsula, in thebeginning of November 1808 he arrived at Co-runna, in command of about 10,000 men, andformed a junction with the army under GeneralSir John Moore. In the battle of Corunna, Janu-ary 16, 1809, he commanded the first division ofthe army, and lost his left arm. On tlie death ofSir John Moore, he succeeded to the chief com-mand, and on communicating the intelligence oftlie victory to government, he received for thefourth time tlie thanks of parliament, the previousoccasions being, for the operations of the army inIndia in 1799, for those of Egypt in 1801, and forthe Danish expedition. On this occasion also hereceived the red riband, on being appointed aknight grand cross of the Bath. On the 18th ofApril he was created a baronet by patent, and re-ceived a grant of the honourable armorialbearings, having relation to his military transac-tions. The following is a portrait of Sir Davidfrom a painting by Sir Henry Eacburn:. BATRD, 196 PRINCIPAL. On Sir Davids return to Edinburgh after theSpanish campaign, he called upon the then pos-sessor of the mansion on the Castlehill where hewas bora, and requested to be allowed to s«e thehouse in which he had passed liis infancy, and thegarden behind, where he said he had spent manyliappy days in boyish amusements. This wasreadily conceded, and after viewing the house, hewas conducted to the garden, where he saw thechildren of the tenant of the house engaged in thevery same species of mischievous sport which hedeclared had often been his own, namely, throw-ing stones and kail castocks down the chimneys-of the houses in the Grassmarket below. {Cham-bers TradUiuns of Edinburgh, vol. i. p. 155.] Sir David married, 4th August 1810, MissCampbell Preston of Ferntower and Lochlane,Pertlishire, niece of Sir Robert Preston, of Valley-field, Baronet. I
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