Campbell, Neil ___ 1776-1827 ___ British ___ soldier

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is no detailed information about Campbell readily available on the internet. He appears to have begun his army career by joining the 6th West India Regiment in 1797. After three years service in West Indies, he returned to England and was promoted to lieutenant, and then to major. He returned to the West Indies and served in Jamaica for a while, and was later present at the capture of Guadaloupe. He commanded a Portuguese regiment during the Peninsular War, and also served in Russia. In 1814, he was severely wounded at Fere Champenoise in France, but, the same year, was chosen by the British Government to accompany Napoleon from Fontainebleau to Elba. For a year, Campbell kept an intimate diary, recording events as Napoleon built an empire in miniature. Campbell was absent in Florence, when Napoleon left Elba. Later, after being knighted, he became governor of Sierra Leone and died there of a fever.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1814-1815 ___ military people historyeye prison

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Napoleon on Elba: Diary of an Eyewitness to Exile
 

October 2005. September 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.