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James Fullarton

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Lieut. Col. James Fullarton, C.B., K. H. was a soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars (1803-1807). During the Peninsula War he fought in the Battle of Corunna (1809) and the Battle of Barrosa (1811). He then went to Holland and in the War of the Sixth Coalition he was sent to attack Merksem and then bombard Antwerp. During the Hundred Days, he fought in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), where he was second in command of the 3rd Battalion, 95th Regiment of Foot, and wounded at Waterloo. He lived the last seven years of his life in Halifax, Nova Scotia.