August 1813, he was wounded twice, first by a bayonet to the chest and then by a musket-ball, whilst mounting a night attack at Urdax on 1813-08-31, causing him to be carried off the field of combat. The musket ball was surgically removed through his back. He having reached the rank of Major in the British Army in 1813, his service was discontinued, with reduced pay, in 1814; so in August 1815 he travelled to Rio de Janeiro, at the time the home of the Royal Court of Portugal. There, the King of Portugal made him a knight of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. He was commissioned into the Portuguese Army at the same time, at his older British rank of Lieutenant-Colonel rather than Major. He organized the 1st Regiment of the Portuguese Army, for the purpose of suppressing the Pernambucan revolt, for the success of which the King further made him a Knight Commander of the Royal Military Order of São Bento de Aviz and promoted him to full Colonel. Upon returning from Pernambuco to Rio he was transferred to a staff post, because of his health, and was chosen in 1818 to bear dispatches to England. He had to recover the same after pirates attacked and ransacked the transport. After he died, a post-mortem examination concluded that a contributory factor towards his death had been the wounds that, three decades earlier, he had sustained at Urdax and the damage to his intestines that he had suffered as the result of the surgery that he had undergone to remove the musket ball. References Reference bibliography () Further reading 1772 births 1842 deaths 18th-century British Army personnel 19th-century British Army personnel People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 76th Regiment of Foot officers South Staffordshire Regiment officers 63rd Regiment of Foot officers British Army personnel of the Peninsular War Portuguese army personnel