[1][4] He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel after the fall of Badajoz in April 1812, and was awarded a medal (for distinguished service against a superior force) after action at Pamplona on 1813-07-30.
[4] Having then transferred to the 8th Regiment in 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.
[4] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.