[Footnote 166:  Major Tupper succeeded to the command of the marines, of whom there were two battalions at Bunker’s Hill, after the fall of the gallant Major Pitcairn, and was honorably mentioned in the general orders of the day.]

[Footnote 167:  The Primrose, while this young officer was serving in her, was actively employed during the war, and in one engagement had fifteen officers and men killed and wounded.  In 1815, he accompanied Captain Phillott in the boat expedition up the river St. Mary, in the United States, in which that officer was wounded.]

[Footnote 168:  The same officer whose letters have been given in this volume.]

[Footnote 169:  See United Service Journal, March, 1841, pp. 332-3.]

[Footnote 170:  By a singular coincidence, the two brothers commenced their career in the same ship, the Victory, to which their near relative, Lieutenant Carre Tupper, belonged when he was killed in the Mediterranean, in one of her boats, and all three lost their lives in boats!]

APPENDIX D.

COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER.

    ...  My beautiful, my brave!

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    Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime
    Has felt the influence of malignant star,
    And waged with Fortune an unequal war!

This highly gifted young man was a brother of the subject of the preceding memoir, their father having had ten sons and three daughters.  He received an excellent education in England, partly under a private tutor in Warwickshire; and on the restoration of the Bourbons, in 1814, he was sent to a college in Paris, in which he continued until the arrival of Napoleon from Elba, when he was gratified by a glimpse of that extraordinary man.  When he landed in France, although he had barely completed his fourteenth year, his stature was so tall and athletic as to give him the appearance of a young giant; and on being asked his age at the police office, that it might be inserted in his passport, his reply was received with a smile of astonishment and incredulity, which afforded much subsequent amusement to his elder fellow travellers.  At the age of sixteen his strength and activity were so great, that few men could have stood up against him with any chance of success.  On his return to Guernsey, every interest the family possessed was anxiously exerted to indulge his wish of entering the British army, but owing to the great reductions made after the peace of 1815, he was unable to obtain a commission, even by purchase.  Those relatives, who could best have forwarded his views, had been slain in the public service; and in that day few claims were admitted, unless supported by strong parliamentary influence.  He attended the levee of the commander-in-chief, who promised to take his memorial into early consideration; and it was hoped by the family that his tall and strikingly