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 32 MEMOIR OF LIEUT. TUPPER.

French garrison. He served on the American coast, during the latter part of the war, in the Asia, 74, and was present at the disastrous attack of New Orleans, on the 8th of January, 1815, forming one of a party under Captain Rowland Money, landed from the fleet to co-operate with the army. On the night of the storm, this party, in conjunction with the 85th Light Infantry, under Colonel Thornton, attacked some fortitied works on the right bank of the Mississippi, and were completely successful after sustaining a tri- fling loss, but the failure of the main assault rendered this success unavailing. The cannon on these out- works appear to have enfiladed the principal defences on the left bank of the river, the attempt to carry which cost the army so many men ; and had the main assault been deferred until these guns could be turned against the garrison, the city would probably have been captured. In the same year he joined the flag ship of Sir Thomas Fremantle, who, having been an intimate friend of his late uncle, Sir Isaac Brock, kindly assured him of his influence and support ; but ere he had attained the requisite age for promotion, peace took place and blighted all the bright prospects with which he entered the service. In November, 1817, on his return in the Active frigate, Captain Philip Carteret,* from the Jamaica station, he passed at the Naval College at Portsmouth, and was one of four midshipmen complimented as having undergone a superior examination. In 1823 he was appointed to the Revenge, 76, Sir Harry Neale's flag ship in the Mediterranean, and took a passage to join her in the Sybille, of 48 guns. Captain Yorke,f command-

t The present Earl of Hardwicke.
 * The late Sir Philip Carteret Sylvester, Bart, and C. B.

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