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Waterloo. He wasalso at the defence of Chalons, and in ‘The 
Army of the Loire:’ the last force that remained faithful to 
Napoleon, up to its dissolution in the autumn of 1815. 
‘<< From 1804 to 1806 Mr. O’Reilly was at Brest and else- 
where on the coast of Brittany. 
<< From 1806 to 1807 he was with the armies of Reserve at 
Mayence. 
“From 1807 to 1808 he was with the Army of Observation 
on the Scheldt. 
«From 1808 to 1809 he was with the army of Walcheren. 
<¢TIn 1811 he was with the army of the Scheldt. 
“<In 1812 he was with the Army of Observation in Holland. 
<<In 1813—14he was with the Grand Army in Germany, &c. 
‘¢He had thus more than eleven years of active service, and 
nine campaigns in the French army. 
“¢In the Walcheren campaign, and especially at Flushing, 
in resistance to the British army under Lord Chatham, Col. 
O’Reilly distinguished himself with Col. (afterwards General) 
William Lawless; he saved the eagle of the Irish regiment. 
It was on this occasion that he was promoted to the rank of 
captain, and distinguished by the cross of the Legion of Honour. 
The Emperor also ordered that in future the arms, &e. of the 
regiment should have impressed upon them an ensign bearing a 
flag, with the word ‘ Flessingue’ inscribed upon it, which we 
find on the blade of the sword now presented to the Academy.” 
