Brigadier General George Howe, Abercromby's second-in-command, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop.

Simcoe had planned a " pincer "- type attack, with his troops attacking from the north and east, and Abercromby's troops from the south and west.

One of Abercromby's officers killed the Garifuna chief Joseph Chatoyer on March 14, 1795.

French shore batteries opposed the landing, but the British were able to drive them back and by the next day all of Sir Ralph Abercromby's British Army was ashore.

It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.

A minor literary work of Abercromby's was a translation of Jean de Beaugué's Histoire de la guerre d ' Ecosse ( 1556 ) which appeared in 1707.

The date of Abercromby's death is uncertain.

While this was a minor campaign on the scale of Abercromby's overall career, it is well remembered up to the present on Saint Vincent, where Chatoyer is revered as a national hero.

A battle in the neighbourhood of Alexandria ( 21 March 1801 ) was the sequel of this successful landing, and it was Abercromby's fate to fall in the moment of victory.

Abercromby's failure to advance directly to the fort on July 7 made much of this defensive work possible.

During the negotiations leading to the Peace of Amiens, many of the British inhabitants petitioned against the return of the island to Spain ; this together with Picton's and Abercromby's representations, ensured the retention of Trinidad as a British possession.

Abercromby's failure to advance directly to the fort on July 7 made much of this defensive work possible.

He was noted for his interest in archaeology, being appointed as a trustee for Lord Abercromby's endowment for an Archaeology department at the University of Edinburgh.

He was promoted to captain in January 1800 and took part in Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to Egypt in 1801.

Abercromby's forces, one of the largest ever to invade Spanish territories in America, are halted a mile from San Cristóbal at the Escambrón defenses, also known as San Juan's First Line of Defense ; see Fortín de San Gerónimo.

Abercromby's strategy was to take the Martín Peña bridge in order to block Spanish reinforcements from the South and bombard San Gerónimo and San Antonio from Miramar to gain access and cross the San Antonio Bridge into the San Juan islet.

After Abercromby's death Kempt remained on his successor's staff until the end of the campaign in Egypt.

Abercromby's niece married James Alexander Haldane, and Abercromby subsequently bought the estate of Airthrey, Stirlingshire from J.

* Peter Woodward as Brigadier General Charles O ' Hara: Cornwallis ' second-in-command.

He saw action in Croatia, as second-in-command of a sub-mission headed by Randolph Churchill, under Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's 37th Military Mission, which included Evelyn Waugh.

Ohl ( 1985 ) finds that Johnson was an excellent second-in-command during the war in the Office of the Provost Marshal under Brigadier General Enoch H. Crowder as long as he was closely watched and tightly supervised.

After the death of General Anthony Wayne in Erie, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1796, his second-in-command, Brigadier General James Wilkinson ( later found to be a spy for the Spanish government ) tried to rid the army of everything Wayne had created including the legionary structure of the army.

On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".

Inexperienced and the large magnitude of this assignment, the government sent Vice-Admiral Mohammad Shariff as second-in-command of General Niazi.

General Kearny, passing nearby on his way to California after his recent conquest of Santa Fe, learned of the raid and sent a note to Col. William Doniphan, his second-in-command in Santa Fe.

Increasing his mystique, not a single word was ever published from Thrawn's point of view, despite Zahn's wide variety of narrators ( Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Karrde, Mara Jade, and even minor characters like General Covell and Niles Ferrier ); instead, he is only observed by other characters, occasionally New Republic personnel but mostly his loyal second-in-command Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

Having become a political liability in Virginia, Beauregard was transferred to Tennessee to become second-in-command to General Albert Sidney Johnston ( no relation to Joseph E. Johnston ) in his Army of Mississippi, effective March 14, 1862.

Rather than comply with this order, Attorney General Richardson resigned, leaving his second-in-command, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus in charge of the Justice Department.

Warwick is also the home of revolutionary war general Nathanael Greene, George Washington's second-in-command, and the Civil War hero of the battle of Gettysburg, General George S. Greene.

Pakenham and his second-in-command, General Gibbs, were fatally wounded, while on horseback, by grapeshot fired from the earthworks.

Blucher and his second-in-command General von Gneisenau only just managed to elude capture.

General Charles François Dumouriez, in command of an army of French Revolutionary volunteers, faced the Imperial army of Field Marshal Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and his second-in-command François de Croix, Count of Clerfayt.

In addition to Howard and Chamberlain, William Fessenden's sons, James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden, were both brigadier generals, and seventeen Bowdoin alumni would receive brevets as brigadier generals, including Ellis Spear ( Class of 1858, who was Chamberlain's second-in-command at Gettysburg ), Charles Hamlin ( Class of 1857, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin ), and General Howard's brother Charles ( Class of 1859 ).

He returned to Britain to become second-in-command at the Coldstream Guards and then he joined the General Staff, was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1907 and Colonel in 1911.

Major General Charles Lee, Washington's second-in-command, advised awaiting developments as he did not wish to commit the American force against the British regulars.

His second-in-command, Major General Morgan Lewis, was also " indisposed ".

During the Siege of Béxar, Burleson served as the second-in-command to Gen. Austin, and in November, 1835 he was elected Major General of Texas Volunteers and took command of the Volunteer army besieging San Antonio de Béxar and received the surrender of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos.

President Nixon subsequently asked Richardson's second-in-command, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, to carry out the order.

Pleading illness, Cornwallis did not attend the surrender ceremony, choosing instead to send his second-in-command, the Irish General Charles O ' Hara.

In response, General Washington refused to accept O ' Hara's sword, directing O ' Hara to present it to Lincoln, his second-in-command, instead.

He was replaced by his second-in-command, Colonel Charles N. Hunter, who later prepared a scathing report on General Stilwell's medical evacuation policies ( eventually prompting an Army Inspector General investigation and congressional hearings ).