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Critical action and mutiny results in Ostend 1798 dispatch
A detailed British dispatch from Ostend outlines a fierce engagement in May 1798 where Maj Gen Burrard notes heavy casualties after a broken frontline and flanks. Officers Campbell Hely Walker Halkett and others are praised for gallantry while enemy forces reportedly sustain similar losses. A subsequent May 20 return lists killed wounded and missing across Royal Artillery, Guards, infantry, and navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coote
Altho
Elf
Campbell
Third Guards Light Infantry
Dunkin
44Th
Walker
Royal Artillery
Wilson
Godfrey
Simpson
Hughs
Holcroft
Bis
B.tt
Gibbs
11Th
Halkett
23D Light Infantry
Cumberland
Cornet Nixon
7Th Light Dragoons
Lowen
Bruges
H. Burrard
Henry Dundas
Royal Engineers
A7th Light Dragoons
Guards
Regiment of Foot
44Th Regiment of Foot
3D Guards
Hely
Donken
Battalion of
Light Infantry
Duff
29D Light Infantry
Ostend
17Th Light Dragoon Guards
Agth
Lifle
Fost
Douay
Fort L.escarpe
Campbel
Bortard
Forstiers
Lyfe
Eyre Coote
M.G
Whitehall
Ireland
Duke of Portland
Home Department
Dublin Caitie
Wicklow
Lake
Dublin
Allen
Clon
Blake
Mullingar
Kilcock
Meyrick
Dunboyne
Garristown Hill
Myers
Royal Buckinghamshire
Garrion
Boyne
Stackallen
Gtns.Wemyss
Slane
Taylor
Wemyss
Gorgon
Dumfries