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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Portrait at Thirty Years of Age. 



Lord North. The friendship of Viscount Sackville secured for 

 Thompson a commission of lieutenant colonel in the British army, and 

 he sailed for New York to command a regiment of cavalry, but con- 

 trary winds compelled the ship to enter the harbor of Charleston. S. C, 

 where he remained for several weeks, finally reaching New York in 

 January, 1782. The war soon being at an end, he left for England 

 in the following April, after seeing but little actual service in America. 



Having been advanced to the full rank of colonel, and there being 

 no activity in the British army, he determined to add to his fame by 

 volunteering in the service of Austria against the Turks. On receiving 

 permission from the King to visit the continent, he left England, still 

 holding his commission and drawing the half pay of a colonel. 



He was now thirty years of age, strikingly handsome, with bright 

 blue eyes, dark auburn hair, nearly six feet in height, athletic, a grace- 



