ungest was John, who obtained, in 1747, a commission, by
purchase, in General Churchill's regiment of marines, that corps being
then differently constituted to what it is now. He served as a captain
at the celebrated defeat of the French fleet in Quiberon bay, by Sir
Edward Hawke, in 1759; as a major and commandant of a battalion at
Bunker's Hill, in 1775,[166] where he was slightly wounded, and where
the marines, having greatly distinguished themselves, won the laurel
which now encircles their device; and as a lieutenant-colonel in
Rodney's victory of the 12th of April, 1782, having been especially sent
from England to command the marines in the fleet, about 4,000 men, in
the event of their being landed on any of the enemy's West India
islands. At his decease, in January, 1795, he was a major-general in the
army, and commandant-in-chief of the marines. Had the honors of the Bath
been extended in those days to three degrees of knighthood as they have
been since, he would probably have been a knight commander of that
order.

The fatality which has attended the descendants of the two brothers just
named, will appear in the following brief summary:

1.--Lieutenant Carre Tupper, of his majesty's ship Victory, only son of
Major-General Tupper, slain at the siege of Bastia, on the 24th of
April, 1794.

2.--William De Vic Tupper, (son of E. Tupper, Esq.) mortally wounded in
1798, in a duel in Guernsey, with an officer in the army, and died the
day following.

3.--John E. Tupper, aged twenty, perished at sea, in 1812, in the
Mediterranean, the vessel in which he was a passenger, from Catalonia
to Gibraltar, having never been heard of since.

4.--Charles James Tupper,[167] aged sixteen, captain's midshipman of his
majesty's 18-gun brig Primrose, drowned on the 17th August, 1815, at
Spithead, by the upsetting of the boat in which he was accompanying his
commander, Captain Phillott, to the ship.

5.--Lieutenant E. William Tupper, of his majesty's ship Sybille, aged
twenty-eight, mortally wounded in her boats, June 18, 1826, in action
with a strong band of Greek pirates, near the island of Candia.

6.--Colonel William De Vic Tupper, Chilian service, aged twenty-nine,
slain in action near Talca, in Chile, April 17, 1830. The four last sons
of John E. Tupper, Esq., and Elizabeth Brock, his wife; and nephews of
William De Vic Tupper, Esq., already named, and also of Major-General
Sir Isaac Brock, K.B.; of Lieut.-Colonel John B