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| -Persoon | Montrose (Schots-Gaelisch: Monadh Rois) is een kuststad en een voormalige burgh ongeveer 61 kilometer ten oosten van Dundee in de Schotse lieutenancy en raadsgebied Angus met ongeveer 11 000 inwoners.
William was corporal, later sargent in de compagny van Coll Halkett:
GENERAL SIR CHARLES HALKETT (1683 - 1758) age 75
Was born 1n 1683 and baptized on 17 June 1683 in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Charles Halkett was a Lieutenant General of the Dutch Army. When a Colonel of a regiment of the Scots brigade in the pay of Holland he was wounded at Ramillies (Belgium) in 1706. This was early in a long career that culminated with his nomination as Lieutenant General in the infantry in 1747. Charles father, Lieutenant Colonel Everard Halkett, was gravely wounded at the Battle of Ramillies (Belgium) in 1706 and died at Liege, Belgium a few days later. Fortunately Charles survived his wounds at Ramillies and was able to perpetuate the lineage.
Summary of General Halkett’s military career is as follows: Ensign/cornet in 1700. Wounded near Ramillies, Belgium on 23 May 1706. Assigned as Captain instead of Robert BOYD on 11 October 1708, as Sergeant-Major, in COLYEAR’s Regiment on 14 November 1727, Brigade Lt. Colonel, March 20th, 1730. Sergeant-major, March 17th, 1733. Colonel-commandant and Lt. Colonel November 20th, 1736. Brigadier of the Infantry on 15 October 1742. Defended in 1746 Charleroi, Belgium (capitulated 2 August 1746). Lt. General of the Infantry on 16 May 1747. Colonel, as successor of Walter Philip COLYEAR, 24 January 1748.
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