Biographia Hibernica/Charles Caldwell
CHARLES CALDWELL,
Brother of the above Henry Caldwell, was first-lieutenant of the Stirling man-of-war, when she was ordered home from America, upon which he procured himself to be removed to the Trident, that he might assist in the reduction of Canada. He distinguished himself so much in debarking the troops at Port, in the island of Orleans, that General Wolfe took him into his family, and employed him as a marine aid-de-camp in the whole campaign for whatever related to the sea-service. The two brothers, Henry and Charles, led on each of them a party of grenadiers at the attack of Montmorency, where Charles was wounded in the leg with a musket-ball. He recovered so far as to be able to attend General Wolfe in the reduction of Quebec, and was near him when he fell. His superior officers bore most decided testimony of his extraordinary merit. He died in 1776, chiefly through exerting himself beyond his strength, in raising men for the navy.