James Murray Hadden

Major-General James Murray Hadden (baptised 23 January 1757 – 29 October 1817) was a British Army officer and surveyor-general of the ordnance.

Biography A son of Captain John Hadden of the Royal Marines, he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet, 2 April 1771, and was appointed a second lieutenant in the 2nd battalion Royal Artillery in 1776. His subsequent commissions were: first lieutenant, 7 July 1779; captain-lieutenant, 21 November 1783; captain, 17 January 1793: brevet-major, 1 March 1794; brevet-lieutenant-colonel, 1 January 1798; regimental major, 1 August 1800; regimental lieutenant-colonel, 27 May 1801; colonel, 1 June 1806; major-general, 4 June 1811.

Hadden embarked for Quebec 4 May 1776, arrived there 12 July, and in the following October commanded a gunboat in the operations of the American War of Independence on Lake Champlain. He commanded a detachment of two guns with John Burgoyne's army the year after, and was wounded in the battle of Freeman's Farm, 19 September 1777. He was among the prisoners at the battle of Saratoga, but was exchanged before 1781. He then served as one of the artillery officers of Henry Clinton's force.