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Dictionary of National Biography By LESLIE. STEPHEN j ROBERTS DAVID 1757 1819 lieutenant colonel after serving for a few months in an independent company and in the 22nd dragoons became lieutenant in the 1st lifeguards on 12 Aug 1794 and captain on 25 Sept 1799 He exchanged to half pay in 1801 and was brought back to full pay in the 51st foot on 25 Feb 1804 He went with that regiment to Portugal in 1808 served as brigade major to General Leith during the retreat to Coruña and lost his right hand in the affair at Lugo It was shot through in two places as he was in the act of killing a French officer Ilo received a brevet majority on 4 June 1811 and on 12 Dec of that year became major in the 51st He was in temporary command of that regiment at Vittoria for which he received a gold medal and was made brevet lieutenant colonel 21 June 1813 The 51st belonged to Lord Dal housie's division and after Soult's unsuccessful attempt to relieve Pampeluna it took part still under Roberts's command in the attack upon the retiring French at Ostiz on 30 July which Wellington described as admirablyconducted and executed

Dictionary of National Biography By LESLIE. STEPHEN A mondi later the regiment was severely engaged on the Bidaasoa in the combat of j Yen and Roberto received a ballet in the harlr which could not be extracted and which incapacitated him for farther service in the field He retired from the army on 22 June 1815 and died at Havre in April 1819 He is said to have been the author of The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome with an Account of his Campaigns in the Peninsula and in Pall Mall which was illustrated with fifteen coloured sketches by Rowlandsoo and published in 1815 It is a poem of nearly three thousand lines of little merit bat popular enough at the time to reach a second edition in the following year and to encourage imitations chief of which was The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy 1818 a poem by John Mit ford 1782 183Ì q T Gent Mae 1819 L 490 Wheat Records of the Services of the Fifty First Regiment Greco's Rowldndson the Caricaturist ii 29S 1 K_ K_ 1