Talk:William Dyott/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 16:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

I'll get to this shortly--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

• Images appropriately licensed
• The quote in the lede needs a cite

• Does it? The quote is used in the main text as well; I would have thought that covers it as the main text does the rest of the lede information?

• Who decided that Dyott would join the army?

• Reworded

• Weren't promotions generally purchased?

• Generally yes but in no way exclusively. It was entirely possible in this period for an officer to reach general rank having never purchased a promotion. I try to avoid saying purchased/earned unless the source explicitly says one or the other

• A lieutenant colonel as brigade major?

• That's what the sources say date-wise. Perhaps it was a higher rank because he was serving a governor? Have checked the Royal Military Calendar: "...the Lieutenant Colonelcy 18th February; in May 1795 Brigade Major to the Western District"

• operation on 17 June but with no provisions having arrived to support them this was not accomplished. awkward

• Reworded

• It was then decided that, with Dyott's regiment having been so badly hurt by disease who decided?

• Reworded

• If the 25th was reconstituted upon arrival in England, say so

• Can't find a source that discusses this in any detail. The enlisted men were drafted into the 53rd while the officers and sergeants went home, but can't find a source that explicitly describes the regiment becoming whole again. Even Dyott's diary itself does not mention it, moving from the regiment being quartered at Plymouth after landing, straight to being ordered to Jersey in 1798

• Explain that bit about the 25th being only one of two regiments able to serve outside England

• Reworded

• Coote's force embarked into hundreds of small boats in the evening of 16 August; during the night half of them scattered and come morning the force had to wait for the remaining boats to return to their positions. This allowed the French to ready defences against the British, and they moved to a different landing point to avoid these. awkward

• Reworded

• Any idea why Dyott declined a brigade under Wellesley?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:50, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

• I've had to go directly to the edited volumes of his diary for the reason, but have added it anyway

@Sturmvogel 66: Thanks for the review! Some useful queries that helped me expand out those lingering points. Responses above. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 13:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)