sentences:  In 1814 Mackinnon was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.Early in June 1815, he embarked with another officer at Ramsgate in an open boat, in order to join his regiment who were quartered near Brussels, and arrived the next morning at Ostend.He was present at the engagements of the 16th and 17th, and at the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th, where he had three horses shot from under him.