coast, destroying the shore batteries at Palamos and St Phillion in April that year. Returning to the bay of Rosas, Bullen captured 19 merchant vessels off Cadaques before sailing south to Tarragona in April, where, together with other ships from the squadron he aided the early defence during the siege, at one point risking running his ship aground by taking it close in shore to deliver broadsides on the enemy. Later, whilst serving in a battery ashore in Selva, he was badly wounded. Bullen quit Cambrian on 9 December and returned to England invalided. Later service Bullen did not go to sea again until 10 November 1814 when he was appointed to HMS Akbar as flag captain to Admiral Thomas Byam Martin, helping to supervise the partition of naval supplies at Antwerp. Bullen and the Akbar then proceeded to Halifax, Nova Scotia with Rear Admiral Edward Griffith. In June 1815, Bullen was made a companion of the Order of the Bath for his services. The Akbar was paid off on 1 January 1817. After nearly seven years ashore, Bullen returned to active duty on 12 December 1823, when he was appointed commodore on the west coast of Africa. With his broad pennant in the fifth rate , he supported operations along the Gold Coast during the First Ashanti War. While defending the British depot at Cape Coast, his men were forced to strip the lead from the roof to cast extra bullets. In anti slave trade operations, Bullen was responsible for freeing almost 10,000 would be slaves before his return home in September 1827. In July 1830, he was appointed a Commissioner of Navy for the Navy Board for Chatham Dockyard and then Pembroke Dockyard before being given command of the Royal Yacht Royal Sovereign. In 1835, Bullen became a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order, and was dubbed a Knight Bachelor. He gained promotion to rear admiral in January 1837 and although he retired in March the same year, he continued to receive awards and promotions. Bullen was awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1839, a good service pension of £300 a year in 1843 and was promoted to vice admiral in 1846. In 1852 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath followed by promotion to full admiral in July that year. Admiral Charles Bullen died aged