It is also well known that Lieut. Colonel Commandant Simon Fraser of Lovat [1726-1782], who in 1757 had raised the 2nd Highland Battalion of Foot [originally numbered the 63rd and after the siege of Louisbourg in 1758, renumbered the 78th Regiment of Foot, or Fraser’s Highlanders], did not personally lead the regiment on the Plains of Abraham on September 13th 1759 as he had not recovered from wounds suffered at Montmorency (Beauport) in July. Colonel Fraser was again wounded at Ste Foy (Sillery) in April 1760. Captain John Campbell of Ballimore commanded the Fraser Highlanders at Quebec and, as Major Campbell, assumed command of the regiment when Colonel Fraser left for London in 1761 to take up his seat in the House of Commons, as an elected Member of Parliament for Inverness. In 1762 Fraser was a brigadier-general in the British force sent to Portugal to repel an invasion from Spain, and in 1771 was a major-general in the British army. His attendance at the House of Commons could not have been very regular, as during a great part of the time he was resident at Lisbon. He died a Lieut. General in London in 1782.
Information from; www.clanfraser.ca
This Simon Fraser was the son of the "Old Fox" (Jamie Frasers ugly grandfather)Not to mix up with the man who died at Saratoga, who was Simon Fraser of Balnain.
At the 78. Regiment were loads of other Frasers as well as Simon Frasers.
I hope this infomation will help a bit.
jayn, 04:26:31 03/19/10 Fri