Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Baring aikin soja ya fara tare da shiga sojojin Hanoverian a 1787. A watan Nuwamba na 1803 (ranar da aka ba shi a ranar 17 ga Nuwamba) ya zama babban jami'in soja a cikin "Jamus na Sarki" (wanda aka sake masa suna a matsayin Jamusanci na Sarki a ranar 19 ga Disamba 1803), wanda ya kasance daya daga cikin mambobin farko. Ya yi yaƙi a cikin kamfen a Hannover (1805, Coalition na Uku), Baltic (1807<unk>08, Gunboat War / English Wars
), Pyrenees (1808-13, Yaƙin Peninsular), Kamfen na Walcheren (1809, Hadin Gwiwa na Biyar), kudancin Faransa (1813-14, Hadin Gwiwa na shida) da Netherlands (1814, Hadin Gwiwa na shida). A ranar 16 ga Mayu 1811 an ji rauni kaɗan a yakin Albuera. A ranar 18 ga Janairu 1815 an daukaka shi zuwa Laftanar Kanal.