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the 53rd, and he commanded the light infantry companies at the Battle of Saratoga (1777), and surrendered there with Burgoyne.
He was released from captivity in 1779.
On 1 June 1780, he married his first cousin, Elizabeth Dalrymple and they had four children:
Elizabeth Keith Lindsay (d. 1825)
James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford (1783–1869)
Charles Robert Lindsay (1784–1835)
Anne Lindsay (d. 1846)
Promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd during his imprisonment, he was subsequently promoted to the rank of colonel and made
lieutenant-colonel commandant of the second 71st Regiment of Foot, a battalion of the 71st uninvolved in the surrender at Yorktown
(as was the rest of the regiment). He was chosen a representative peer for Scotland in 1784, and was re-elected through 1807,
inclusive. On 27 August 1789 he was appointed colonel of the 63rd Regiment of Foot, and was promoted major-general in 1793.
Governor of Jersey from 1793 to 1794, he was then appointed Governor of Jamaica. He was promoted lieutenant-general in 1798,
and resigned the governorship in 1801. On September 25, 1803 he was promoted general.
After his return from the American Revolution, he was introduced to Benedict Arnold (who had led several gallant attacks on his
position at Saratoga). Balcarres snubbed Arnold as a traitor, and a duel ensued, neither party being injured.
http://www.clanfraser.ca/saratoga.htm
He is shown in the below portrait of the Death of Brigadier-General Simon Fraser
On October 7th, leaving 800 men to protect his camp,
Burgoyne set out with 1,500 men and ten guns in the second
battle of Saratoga, known as the Battle of Stillwater, or Bemis
Heights. With Riedesel in the centre, Phillips on the left flank
and Burgoyne on the right, the Indians and Loyalists made their
way through the forest to create a diversion at the back of the
American position. The Americans, under Colonel Daniel
Morgan [1736-1802], fell heavily under their left column, then
extended the attack to the centre, bringing 4,000 men into
action. Fraser, while attempting to contain a simultaneous
attack on the British right, withdrew the 24th Regiment and his
light infantry to support the grenadiers. Seeing Fraser riding
across the British lines, Arnold said to Morgan, That officer
upon a gray horse is of himself a host and must be disposed
of. Morgan passed the order on to Timothy Murphy, one of his
riflemen, with the words, That gallant officer is General
Fraser. I admire him, but it is necessary that he should die. Do
your duty. An American militiaman recorded that the bullets
began to fly around Fraser. One shot cut the crupper of his
horse; another grazed its ears. An aide-de-camp urged Fraser
to withdraw; but he rode on and the third bullet ripped through
his stomach, mortally wounding him.
The Baroness Friederike von Riedesel [1746-1808], wife of the
Hessian commander, who had been with the column throughout - as nurse and housekeeper, recorded the horrors of war in her
journal, published as Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Independence [1827]:
About three o'clock in the afternoon... they brought in to me upon a litter poor General Fraser... Our dining table which was already spread
was taken away and in its place they fixed up a bed for the general... I heard him often amidst his groans exclaim, 'Oh, fatal ambition! Poor
General Burgoyne! My poor wife!' Prayers were read to him. Then he sent a message to General Burgoyne begging that he would have
him buried the following day at six o'clock in the evening on the top of a hill which was a sort of redoubt.
General Fraser died the next morning at eight o'clock and, even though the redoubt was now within full range of the advancing
Americans, Burgoyne complied with the dying wish of his comrade.
http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/forts/fortsA_D/balcarresRedoubt.htm
< Balcarres Redoubt, 1777, Saratoga County, Bemis Heights. October 1777, Battle
of Saratoga. A strong British position 500 yards long and 12 to 14 feet high,
mounting 8 guns. Incorporated the Freeman House. Located south of Brymann
Redoubt.
http://www.vonriedesel.org/history.htm
BATTLE OF BEMIS HEIGHTS
The general officers surveyed the battlegrounds of the Freeman's Farm on
September 20, 1777 to set up a defensive position. On the right flank was built a
redoubt to be manned and protected by Breymann's grenadiers. On the left flank
was a hill that commanded the whole valley; the Hesse-Hanau regiment and
artillery was posted there. The Brunswick regiments were posted on the high
ground extending from the hill protecting the British left flank. In the center of the Burgoyne's line was Balcarres Redoubt, a very
strong works that was supported by well placed outworks.
On October 7, 1777 the battle of Bemis Heights begins when a combined reconnaissance in force and foraging expedition moved
out from the Balcarres Redoubt at about 10:00 AM down the south-west road heading towards the Barber Wheatfield. This force of
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