Note 31 — Chapter II
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He had fallen in with Capt. Tupper of the 23d Fuzileers (with whom he was well acquainted) on his way to Algeciras, who had accompanied him to San Roque. Poor Tupper! led away by a somewhat quixotic love of strife, he was persuaded in an unlucky moment to throw up his company in one of the first regiments in the British service, to become the Colonel of a regiment of adventurers, and was killed whilst gallantly leading on his men at the first attack on Hernani of fatal memory.