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Ensign 1st Foot Guards 22.1.1728 Lieutenant and Captain 25.4.1741 Captain-Lieutenant 24.2.1747 Lieutenant-Colonel 18.5.1747 Colonel 50th Foot 30.5.1756 Major-General 25.6.1759 Colonel of 5th Foot 24.10.1759 Lieutenant-General 19.1.1761 He commanded the force that took the citidal of Belle-Ile-en-Mer in 1761. Colonel of 4th Foot 7.11.1768 General 2.4.1778 Colonel of 4th Horse (7DG) 7.6.1782 Colonel of 11th Light Dragoons 14.3. 1789 - 19.10.1798 Field-Marshal 30.7.1796 Died 19.10.1798 aged 90 |
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