Note 26 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,

Lieutenant Charles Turner was promoted to a company in the African Colonial Corps, on the 8th of June, 1803; to a Majority of the same corps on the 18th of April, 1804; and to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the West Indian Rangers, on the 28th of May, 1807. He joined the army in Portugal, under Marshal Sir William Carr Beresford, K.B., and lost his left arm in the repulse of a sortie of the French from Badajoz, on the 10th of May, 1811, while in command of the 17th Portuguese Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General on the 19th of July, 1821; and was appointed Captain General and Commander-in-Chief in Africa, on the 24th of June, 1824; he died at Sierra Leone on the 7th of March, 1826.