grenadier guards, on the 17th April, 1783, and served with them
to the close of the American war. He was promoted lieutenant and
captain on the 3rd June, 1791, and from the end of 1793 till the
return of the army in May, 1795, he served under his Royal Highness
the Duke of York in Flanders, being present at the different
actions between those periods. On the 12th June, 1795, he succeeded
to a company, with the rank of lieut.-colonel; on the 29th April,
1802, was appointed colonel by brevet; and brigadier-general on
the Home Staff in December, 1805. In July, 1806, he commanded
a battalion of the foot guards in Sicily; in August, 1807, was
appointed brigadier-general in Sicily; and in 1808 joined the army
in Spain under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, where he commanded a
brigade in the reserve, and was present at the battle of Corunna,
for which he obtained a medal. He commanded the first brigade of
foot guards on the Walcheren expedition in July, 1809, and on the
25th October following was promoted to the rank of major-general.
In 1810 he was ordered to Cadiz as second in command, and in the
succeeding year was appointed to the command there. On the 4th
June, 1814, he was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-general,
and on the 23rd July of that year His Majesty King George III.
conferred on him the colonelcy of the FIFTEENTH regiment; and on
the 7th April, 1815, he was nominated a Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath. He was promoted to the
rank of general on the 10th January, 1837, and died on the 19th
April, 1846.
GENERAL SIR PHINEAS RIALL, K.C.H.
_Appointed 24th April, 1846._
(From the seventy-fourth, Highland regiment.)
APPENDIX.
_Battle, Sieges, &c., in the Netherlands, during the reign of_ KING
WILLIAM III., _from 1689 to the Peace of Ryswick, in 1697_.
Battle of Walcourt 25 August, 1689
---- Fleurus 4 July, 1690
Mons surrendered to the French 10 April, 1691
Namur ditto ditto 20 June, 1692
Battle of Steenkirk 3 August, ----
Furnes and Dixmude captured -- Sept., ----
The French lines at D'Otignies forced 10 July, 1693
Battle of Landen 29 July, ----
Surrender of Huy 17 Sept., 1694
Attack on Fort Kenoque 9 June, 1695
Dixmude surrendered to the French 16 July, ----
Namur retaken by King William III. 25 July, ----
Citadel of Namur surrendered 5 Sept., ----
Treaty of Ryswick signed 11 Sept., 1697
_List of Sieges, Battles, &c. in the Netherlands and Germany,
during the Campaigns under the_ DUKE _of_ MARLBOROUGH, _from 1702
to 1711_.
Invested. Surrendered.
---- ----
Siege of Kayserswerth 16 April, 17 June, 1702
Skirmish near Nimeguen 11 June, ----
Siege of Venloo 29 August, 25 Sept., ----
Capture of Fort St. Michael 18 Sept., ----
Siege of Stevenswaert 3 Oct., ----
-------- Ruremonde 6 Oct., ----
Capture of Liege Citadel 23 Oct., ----
Siege of Bonn 24 April, 15 May, 1703
-------- Huy 16 August, 25 Aug., ----
-------- Limburg 10 Sept., 28 Sept., ----
Battle of Schellenberg 2 July, 1704
--------- Blenheim 13 Aug., ----
Siege of Landau 12 Sept., 24 Nov., ----
Huy captured by the French May, 1705
Re-capture of Huy 11 July, ----
Forcing the French Lines at Helixem, near Tirlemont 18 July, ----
Skirmish near the Dyle 21 July, ----
Siege of Sandvliet 26 Oct., 29 Oct., ----
Battle of Ramilies 23 May, 1706
Siege of Ostend 28 June, 8 July, ----
-------- Menin 25 July, 25 Aug., ----
-------- Dendermond 29 Aug., 5 Sept., ----
-------- Aeth 16 Sept., 3 Oct., ----
Battle of Oudenarde 11 July, 1708
Siege of Lisle 13 Aug., 23 Oct., ----
Capture of the Citadel 9 Dec., ----
Battle of Wynendale 28 Sep., ----
Passage of the Scheldt 27 Nov., ----
Siege of Ghent 18 Dec., 30 Dec., ----
-------- Tournay 27 June, 29 July, 1709
Capture of the Citadel 3 Sept., ----
Battle of Malplaquet 11 Sept., ----
Siege of Mons 21 Sept., 20 Oct., ----
Passage of the French lines at Pont-à-Vendin 21 April, 1710
Siege of Douay 25 April, 27 June, ----
-------- Bethune 15 July, 29 Aug., ----
-------- Aire 6 Sept., 9 Nov., ----
-------- St. Venant 6 Sept., 30 Sept., ----
Passage of the French lines at Arleux 5 Aug., 1711
Siege of Bouchain 10 Aug., 13 Sept., ----
Treaty of Utrecht signed 30 March, 1713
London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.
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