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August 1770 – 27 March 1843) was a British Army officer who served during

the Napoleonic Wars. He was an

ensign in 1781. He served in the West Indies from 1791 to 1797 and while

serving there was promoted to lieutenant-colonel (1796). He helped to suppress

the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

He was in Egypt in 1801 and fought at Martinique in 1809. He commanded brigade,

and afterwards division, in the Peninsular War from 1810 until 1814. During the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 he commanded a division in

Belgium and the same year was made a K.C.B.. In 1819 he was promoted to lieutenant-general and

served as commander-in-chief at Bombay from 1819 until 1825. He was governor

of Mauritius from 1828

until 1834. He was promoted to general in 1837.

Charles Colville was the third son of John Colville, 8th Lord Colville of Culross and Amelia

Webber, in the peerage of Scotland, was born on 7 August 1770. In 1818 Colville married Jane Mure 27 May

1843), eldest daughter of William Mure of Caldwell.[4] He had two sons, Charles John (23 Nov 1818–1 Jul 1903), William James (9

Mar 1827–16 Oct 1903) (in 1850 a lieutenant in the Rifle

Brigade—the 95th), and two daughters, Catherine Dorothea ( d. 26 Feb

1904) and Georgina Clementina (d. 18 Mar 1871). Upon the death of his eldest

brother, Admiral John

Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross, in 1849 (without heirs), the title devolved to his first son, Charles, and the honors to all his children.[5] His eldest son was, in 1850, a major in the

artillery. Colville entered the army as an ensign in the 28th regiment on 26 December 1781, but did not join until

1787, in which year he was promoted lieutenant. In May 1791 he was promoted

captain into the 13th Somersetshire Light Infantry, with

which he remained for nineteen years, until he became a major-general. He

joined it in December 1791 in the West Indies, and remained with it until its return to England

in 1797, seeing much service in the interval, especially in San Domingo, and being promoted major 1 September 1795 and to

lieutenant-colonel 26 August 1796.

Colville commanded the 13th in the suppression of the Irish insurrection of 1798,

and in the expeditions to Ferrol and Egypt. In

Egypt, his regiment formed part of Major-General John Cradock's

brigade, and distinguished itself in the battles of Abukir, Mandora, and Canope, and in the

subsequent investment of the French garrison at Alexandria. On leaving Egypt, Colville, who had there

established his reputation as a good regimental officer, took his regiment

to Gibraltar, where he remained until 1805, in which year he was

promoted to colonel. After a short period in England he went with his regiment

to Bermuda in 1808, and in 1809 he was made a

brigadier-general and commanded the 2nd brigade of George Prévost's division in the capture of Martinique.

On 25 July 1810, Colville was promoted major-general and at once applied

for a command in the Iberian Peninsula. In October 1810 he took over the command

of the 1st brigade of the 3rd Division, which was under the command of Thomas Picton. He soon became not only Picton's trusted

lieutenant, but one He commanded his brigade in the pursuit after Massena, and in the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro,

shared the superintendence of the trenches with Major-General John

Hamilton at the second siege of Badajoz. He

also commanded the infantry in the affair at El Bodón on

25 September 1811, and the 4th division in the place of Major-General Cole in

the successful siege of Ciudad Rodrigo.

He shared the superintendence of the trenches in the third and last siege

of Badajoz with Generals

Bowes and Kempt (who replaced the wounded Picton), and commanded the 4th

division in the storming of the Trinidad bastion, where he was shot through the left thigh and lost a

finger of his right hand.

Colville had to go to England for his cure, and thus missed the battle of Salamanca, but

returned to the Peninsula in October 1812 and commanded the 3rd division in winter

quarters until superseded by the arrival of General Picton. He commanded his

brigade only at the Battle of Vitoria, where he was slightly wounded, but was

specially appointed by Lord Wellington to the temporary command of the 6th

division from August to November 1813, when he reverted to the 3rd division,

which he commanded at the battles of the Nivelle and the Nive. He was again superseded by the arrival of Sir Thomas

Picton, but in February 1814 Lord Wellington appointed him permanently to the

5th division in the place, of Sir James Leith.

With it he served under Sir John Hope in

the siege of Bayonne, and it was

Colville who superintended the final embarkation of the last English troops

left in France.

Colville's services were well-rewarded; he received a cross with one

clasp; he was made a K.C.B. in January and a G.C.B. in March, 1815; he was appointed colonel of

the 94th regiment in April 1815. When the return of Napoleon from Elba made

it necessary for a British army to be sent to the continent, he was made a

local lieutenant-general in the Netherlands at Wellington's special request,

and took command of the 4th Division there. Colville's division was posted on

the extreme right of the British division at Halle during the Battle of Waterloo. To

compensate him for not being more actively engaged there, Wellington gave him

the duty of storming Cambrai, the only French fortress which

did not immediately surrender. He succeeded with the loss of only thirty men

killed and wounded. 

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