Name

Caesar Bacon

Biography

Major in the 23rd Light Dragoons, son of John Joseph Bacon — one of Douglas's foremost merchants in the pre-Revestment era, whose shipping ledger recorded voyages of the brig Caesar to Naples and Gothenburg. The father's ledger was the record of the commercial world the Revestment destroyed. The son fought in the war that followed. Bacon was wounded twice — at Quatre-Bras and again at Waterloo. His uniform — navy and red jacket, silver-threaded epaulettes, leather sabretache — survives as the oldest known Napoleonic light cavalry uniform in the British Isles, held by Manx National Heritage alongside Quilliam's naval uniform.

Active Period

c.1791–c.1860

Place

Douglas

Quatre-Bras

Waterloo

Period

Crown Administration

Role / Office

Major, 23rd Light Dragoons

Military Officer

Book Chapter

Chapter 15