Sir David Dundas, KB, Commander in Chief

Coloured etching by and after Robert Dighton Snr, published by Robert Dighton Snr, London, April 1810.

A veteran of the German campaigns of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), who did not serve in America, he published the book that made his reputation, 'The Principles of Military Movements', in 1788. Following a succession of staff and field-command appointments he became Commander-in-Chief in March 1809 in succession to the Duke of York, then under a cloud on account of the Mary Anne Clarke scandal. He willingly resigned the post of Commander-in-Chief to York in May 1811.