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See also:DICKSON, See also:SIR See also:ALEXANDER (1777–1840) , See also:British artillerist, entered the Royal Military See also:Academy in 1793, passing out as second See also:lieutenant in the Royal See also:Artillery in the following See also:year. As a subaltern he saw service in See also:Minorca in 1798 and at See also:Malta in 'Soo. As a See also:captain he took See also:part in the unfortunate See also:Montevideo Expedition of 1806–07, and in 18o9 he accompanied_Howorth to the See also:Peninsular See also:War as See also:brigade-See also:major of the artillery. He soon obtained a command in the Portuguese artillery, and as a lieutenant-See also:colonel of the Portuguese service took part in the various battles of 1810–1I. At the two sieges of Budazoz, See also:Ciudad Rodrigo, the See also:Salamanca forts and See also:Burgos, he was entrusted by See also:Wellington (who had the highest See also:opinion of him) with most of the detailed artillery See also:work, and at Salamanca See also:battle he commanded the reserve artillery. In the end he became See also:commander of the whole of the artillery of the allied See also:army, and though still only a substantive captain in the British service he had under his orders some 8000 men. At See also:Vitoria, the See also:Pyrenees battles and See also:Toulouse he directed the movements of the artillery engaged, and at the end of the war received handsome presents from the See also:officers who had served under him, many of whom were his seniors in the army See also:list. He was at the disastrous affair of New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, but returned to See also:Europe in See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for the See also:Waterloo See also:campaign. He was See also:present at Quatre See also:Bras and Waterloo on the artillery See also:staff of Wellington's army, and subsequently commanded the British battering See also:train at the sieges of the See also:French fortresses See also:left behind the advancing See also:allies. For the See also:rest of his See also:life he was on See also:home service, principally as a staff officer of artillery. He died, a major-See also:general and G.C.B., in_184o. A.memorial was erected at See also:Woolwich in 1847. Dickson was one of the earliest See also:fellows of the Royal See also:Geographical Society.
His diaries kept in the See also:Peninsula were the See also:main source of See also:information used in See also:Duncan's See also:History of the Royal Artillery.
End of Article: DICKSON, SIR ALEXANDER (1777–1840)
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