John Wallace

General Sir John Alexander Dunlop Agnew Wallace, (c.1775 – 10 February 1857) was a British Army officer. He was the only son of Sir Thomas Dunlop Wallace, of Craigie, Ayrshire, and his first wife, Eglantine Maxwell. Sir Thomas had been born John Dunlop and adopted the name and style of Baronet Wallace on inheriting the Craigie estate of his grandfather Sir Thomas Wallace, 4th Baronet. John Alexander Wallace joined the British Army in 1787 as an ensign in the newly raised 75th (Highland) Regiment of Foot. He served with the regiment in India in 1789, became lieutenant in 1790, and took part in Cornwallis's operations against Sultan Tippoo in 1791–2, including the siege of Seringapatam in 1792. He acted as aide-de-camp to Colonel Maxwell, who commanded the army's left wing. In 1796 he obtained a company in the 58th Regiment of Foot and returned to England to join it. He went with the 58th to the Mediterranean in 1798, was present at the capture of Minorca, and in the campaign of 1801 in Egypt. The 58th formed part of the reserve forces under Lt-General Moore, and was very hotly engaged in the Battle of Alexandria. It came home in 1802.