HLI Chronicle 1910 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
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he ~as promoted Captain into the 67th
RegIment, but exchanged into the 88th Connaught
Rangers to remain in India. Two
years later ill-health compelled him to return
to ~~gland, ,and he was employed in the recrUltmg
,servIce until 1803, upon which he was
fo: Il; tIme Brigade-~1ajor of the Southern
DIstrIct.
. In 1804 Camp bell was promoted Major
mto the. 6th Garr~son Battalion in Guernsey,
an~ on Its reductIOn in April, 1805, was appomted
t) the 2nd Battalion of the 7lst
Highland Regiment.
Und~r the Defence Act of August, 1804,
authonty ha~ been given for the Seventyfirst,
along WIth many other Regiments, to be
augm~nted by a second Battalion, and the
c0.untles of Du:ubarton, Stirling, Clackmannan,
Kmross, and FIfe were allotted to the Regiment.
~rd George Beresford was appointed to the
Lleutenant-Colonelcy of this new Battalion, but
the whole work of raising and command was
actually performed by Major Camp bell The
Battalion ~as quartered in the old Gall~wgate
Barracks m Glasgow, where their success
in recruiting was said at the time to have been
"unprecedented," and largely due to Major
Campbell's efiorts and influence.
In 1808 Major Campbell was transferred
to the 1st Battalion, and embarked for Portugal
w~th it in July. He was pLesent with
the Reglffient at the battles of Roleia and Vim­
~era, ~d the advance to Madrid. On receipt of
mtell~gence .of the enemy's approach towards
MadIld"MaJor Campbell was sent forward with
two. Companies of the Regiment to occupy
an Important pass through the Guadarama
Mountains, over which the Division afterwards
crossed. He continued with the Regiment
during)he retreat to Corruna, and was present
at the battle.
In the spring of 1809 he was one of the
officers selected to accompany Marshal Beresford
to Portugal, to assist him in the task of
reorganising . the Portuguese Army, and was
promoted Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet the
same year. Camp bell was given command
of the 16th Portuguese Regiment, and from
that time onwards, first as Colonel of his
Regiment, and latterly as Brigadier-General
he took part in most of the famous battle~
of the Peninsular War, and was frequently
mentioned in despatches.
In Ap~il, 1814, he was knighted, promoted
Colonel ID the Army, and appointed Aide-de­
. camp to the Prince Regent, and in the followIng
year was madf.) a K.C.B. Re had received
the Portuguesc Order of the Tower and
Sword in 1813.
After the conclusion of the war he rema~ed
for so~e time is the Portuguese
serViCe as a Major-General, and in 1816 he
was appointed to the command of the Lisbon
Division. He resigned this appointment in
1820, and returned home .
In the following yeaI Sir Archibald was
appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 38th
Regiment, and proceeded to India, and was
soon afterwards nominated to command the
Expedition against the Burmese. He commanded
throughout the operations ill 1824­
1825, and brought the campaign to a successful
conclusio~ by the capture of A va, the Burmese
capItal, in January, 1826.
In recognition of his service Sir, Archibald
Camp bell (now ~Iajor-General) was made a
G.C.B., and received the thanks of both Houses
of Parliament, and a pension of £1,000 a year
from the East India Company. He returned
home on account of ill-health in 1825' was
appointed Colonel of the 95th Regiment, and
two years la~er was created a Baronet, being
granted speCial arms and the motto " A va "
by Royal licence.
Sir Archibald held the office of Lieutenant­
Governor of New Brunswick from 1831 to 1837
after which he returned home to reside at 'hi~
estate of Garth, in Fortingall.-I
Sir Archibald Campbell died in Edinburgh
on the 6th of October, 1843, -at the age of
seventy-four.*
A DISTINGUISHED COMMANDING
OFFICER OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH.
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN MACDUFF, C,B.
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN MACDUFF, C.B., a
~allant sol~ier, wh~ spent many years of his
hfe on f~relgn serViCe, came of a family long
known m Strathbraan, as the lairds of
Ballanloan. The General's grandfather, Alex.
Macdufi, a youI.1ger son of the family, had
fought under Prmce Charles' banner in "the
Forty-five," and had afterwards settled down
on the farm of Westwood, in Strathord which
he and his elderfson David rented fr~m the
Duke of Atholl. David Macdufi was in course
of ' time appointed ground-officer on the Duke's
[" NOTE.-A portr>lit of Sir Archibald Campbell
appeared in .the "Chronicle," in one of the earlier
lIUIDerS, which was erroqeQQsly supposed ti. be that
of Sir Archiald Call1vbell. the miser of the Uti;,
The same mistake appears in 'f{.elty'~ H History of
the Highlands,"~EolTOR.J .... I