Colonel Havilland Le Mesurier (1783 - 31 July 1813) was a British army officer. He was the eldestLe Mesurier-Foster, R. ''The Rough Index to the Le Mesurier Family''. 4th edition, 2010

/ref> son of merchant and commissary officer

Havilland Le Mesurier Commissary-General Havilland Le Mesurier (1758–1806) was a British merchant and commissary officer who also published on military matters.W. R. Meyer, ‘Le Mesurier, Havilland (1758–1806)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxfor ...

and his wife Elizabeth Dobrée (? - 1804). He was educated at school in

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and later at

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

.H. M. Chichester, ''‘Le Mesurier, Havilland (1783–1813)’'', rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 3 April 2016
/ref> In January 1801 he entered the Royal Staff Corps as an ensign, and progressed steadily. He became deputy assistant quartermaster-general to Sir John Moore in Sweden, and also at the

Battle of Corunna The Battle of Corunna (or ''A Coruña'', ''La Corunna'', ''La Coruña'' or ''La Corogne''), in Spain known as Battle of Elviña, took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a Briti ...

. He also was present at the

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro In the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (3–5 May 1811), the British–Portuguese Army under Wellington checked an attempt by the French Army of Portugal under Marshal André Masséna to relieve the besieged city of Almeida. A bloody stalema ...

. In 1811 he was appointed Portuguese military secretary to the

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. He was promoted to colonel, shortly before his death during the

Battle of the Pyrenees The Battle of the Pyrenees was a large-scale offensive (the author David Chandler recognises the 'battle' as an offensive) launched on 25 July 1813 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult from the Pyrénées region on Emperor Napoleon’s ord ...

. He was shot through the head on 28 July 1813, dying on the 31st.Brock Tupper, F. ''Family Records'' (1835)
/ref> In 1809 he published a translatio

of ''Considérations sur la Guerre, et particulièrement sur la dernière guerre''

a military book written by the French general :fr:Guillaume Latrille de Lorencez, Guillaume Latrille de Lorencez.

Works

* ''Reflections on Modern War, by the French General Latrille; Translated from the Original by Major Havilland Le Mesurier, Serving on the General Staff in Portugal'' (1809

French original])

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lemesurier, Havilland Royal Staff Corps officers 1783 births 1813 deaths British people of Guernsey descent Lancashire Fusiliers officers 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot officers Royal Scots Fusiliers officers Portuguese army personnel British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars British military personnel killed in action in the Napoleonic Wars