Excerpt from The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book, Vol. 4 of 5: Containing the Services and Progress of Promotion of the Generals Lieutenant-Generals, Major-Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors of the Army, According to Seniority; With Details of the Principal Military Events of the Last Century Tats oficer, after serving as a volunteer with the 18th foot at Gibraltar, purchased an Ensigncy in that corps the 2otb of June, 1787, and a Lieutenancy the 18th of May, 1791. Lie, with the exception of two months leave of absence, continued at Gibraltar until October, 1798, when he embarked with his regiment for Toulon. After serving with it at the latter place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.