Dundas Sir David

Dundas, Sir David, was born in Edinburgh, of good Scottish family, about 1735, entered the army in 1752, and in 1759 accompanied Colonel Elliot, afterwards Lord Heathfield, to Germany. Three years later he followed the same officer to the West Indies, obtaining command of a cavalry regiment after twenty years' service. An experience of the Prussian military system under Frederick the Great induced him to write two works on tactics and drill that were for a time adopted in our army. At Toulon (1793), in Holland under the Duke of York (1794), and again in the disastrous expedition of 1799, he fought with distinction. He? became successively Quartermaster-General, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, and Commander-in-Chief in succession to the Duke of York (1809). He died in 1820.