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Havilland Le Mesurier (British Army officer, born 1783)

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Colonel Havilland Le Mesurier (1783 - 31 July 1813) was a British army officer. He was the eldest^[1] son of merchant and commissary officer Havilland Le Mesurier and his wife Elizabeth Dobrée (? - 1804). He was educated at school in Salisbury and later at Westminster School.^[2]

In January 1801 he entered the Royal Staff Corps as an ensign, and progressed steadily. He became deputy assistant quartermaster-general to Sir John Moore in Sweden, and also at the Battle of Corunna. He also was present at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro.^[2]

In 1811 he was appointed Portuguese military secretary to the Duke of Wellington.^[2] He was promoted to colonel, shortly before his death during the Battle of the Pyrenees. He was shot through the head on 28 July 1813, dying on the 31st.^[3]

In 1809 he published a translation [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O0T6R9TIb74C] of Considérations sur la Guerre, et particulièrement sur la dernière guerre, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6qkWAAAAQAAJ] a military book written by the French general Guillaume Latrille de Lorencez.^[3]

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Reflections on Modern War, by the French General Latrille; Translated from the Original by Major Havilland Le Mesurier, Serving on the General Staff in Portugal (1809) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O0T6R9TIb74C] ([https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6qkWAAAAQAAJ] French original])

References

1. ^Le Mesurier-Foster, R. The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family. 4th edition, 2010.
2. ^¹²H. M. Chichester, ‘Le Mesurier, Havilland (1783–1813)’, rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 April 2016
3. ^¹[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=47ANAAAAQAAJ Brock Tupper, F. Family Records (1835)]

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