Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Charles Brisbane i te tau 1769, ko ia te tuawha, engari ko ia te tama matua o Admiral John Brisbane. I whakauruhia ia ki runga, i whakahaua e tona papa, i te tau 1779. I tae atu ia ki te mahi o te 8 o Hanuere 1780, me te whakaoranga o te Great Siege o Gibraltar i te Hanuere 1780, ana i muri mai ka mahi ia i nga West Indies. I te mutunga o te tau 1781 i whakanohoia ia ki runga i te kaipuke me Kapene Henry Savage, a i reira i te
Ko te Pakanga o Saintes i Dominica, i te 12 o Paenga-whawha 1782, i whara kino ai ia i te pakaru.