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officier âgé de 20 ans seulement, de simple lieutenant qu’il était à la bataille de Chateauguay, fut promu eh 18 15 au grade plus élevé de premier lieutenant, comme l’indique la commission suivante :
" By His Excellency
" Sir George Prévost, baronet, captain gênerai and " governor in chief in and over the provinces of Lower
- Canada, Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New-Brunswick,
" and their several dependencies, vice-admiral of the " same, gênerai and commander of ail His Majesty’s " forces in the said provinces of Lower-Canada and
- Upper-Cahada, Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick, and
" in the Islands of Cape Breton, New-Foundland, the
- Bermudas, etc., etc., etc.
" To lieutenant Maximilian Globensky.
"I do by thèse présents constitute and appoint you to be
- ^ first lietUenant in the corps of light infantry canadian vol-
- tigeurs, and of which lient, colonel Charles de Salaberry
- is appointed, for the time being, commandant and super-
- ’ intendant ; you are iherefore carefully and diligently to
- discharge the duty oifirst lieutenant, by exercising and
" well disciplining both the inferior officers and men of
- that corps ; and I do hereby command them to obey
- you as a first lieutenant : and you are to observe and
- follow such orders and directions, from time to time,
" as you shall receive from me, or any other your superior " officer, according to the rules and articles laid down
