… became a Gold Plated Drinking Cup
"Born in the largest Irish county of Cork, Sir Charles McCarthy was a knighted Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal African Corps before his appointment as Governor of Senegal in 1812. With injuries sustained in two different wars in 1794 and 1798, McCarthy had seen his fair share of battles.
The latter of his battle wounds was received when he fought off a French privateer while serving in the 2nd Regiment of the Le Comte de Walsh-Serrant of the British-paid Irish Brigade. The brigade was disbanded in 1798, and in 1799, McCarthy was commissioned to serve in the Royal African Corps, a British penal military unit composed of deserters and prisoners of war; "culprits from the hulks" as they were so popularly called, the prisoners were mainly British-captured French soldiers.
His émigré French father, Jean Gabriel Guérault, had only adopted his mother's maiden name upon advice from his uncle Thaddeus McCarthy, a British captain, because of the existing feud between the French and the British at that time…"
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Interesting… I was not aware about the British penal military units on Napoleonic Wars… are there more of them?…thanks in advance for any info about them…
Amicalement
Armand
finally dips his toe into the world of Aeronef.
