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-the Cheshire Regiment of Foot, by Richard Cannon
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
-of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at
-www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you
-will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before
-using this eBook.
-
-Title: Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment
- of Foot
- containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689,
- and of its subsequent services to 1849
-
-Author: Richard Cannon
-
-Release Date: February 17, 2021 [eBook #64581]
-
-Language: English
-
-Character set encoding: UTF-8
-
-Produced by: Brian Coe, John Campbell and the Online Distributed
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- Library.)
-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE
-TWENTY-SECOND, OR THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT ***
-
-
-
-
- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
-
- Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
-
- Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been
- placed at the end of each major section.
-
- A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example S^t or Esq^{re}.
-
- Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration:
-
- BY COMMAND OF His late Majesty WILLIAM THE IV^{TH}.
- _and under the Patronage of_
- Her Majesty the Queen.
-
- HISTORICAL RECORDS,
- _OF THE_
- British Army
-
- _Comprising the_
- _History of every Regiment_
- _IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE_.
-
- _By Richard Cannon Esq^{re}._
-
- _Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards._
-
- London.
-
- _Printed by Authority._]
-
-
-
-
- HISTORICAL RECORD
-
- OF
-
- THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
- OR
-
- THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
-
- CONTAINING
-
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT
- IN 1689,
-
- AND OF ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES
- TO 1849.
-
- COMPILED BY
-
- RICHARD CANNON, ESQ.,
-
- ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS.
-
- ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.
-
- LONDON:
- PARKER, FURNIVALL, & PARKER,
- 30, CHARING-CROSS.
-
- MDCCCXLIX.
-
-
-
-
-GENERAL ORDERS.
-
-
- _HORSE-GUARDS_,
- _1st January, 1836_.
-
-His Majesty has been pleased to command that, with the view of doing
-the fullest justice to Regiments, as well as to Individuals who have
-distinguished themselves by their Bravery in Action with the Enemy,
-an Account of the Services of every Regiment in the British Army
-shall be published under the superintendence and direction of the
-Adjutant-General; and that this Account shall contain the following
-particulars, viz.:--
-
- ---- The Period and Circumstances of the Original Formation of
- the Regiment; The Stations at which it has been from time to time
- employed; The Battles, Sieges, and other Military Operations in
- which it has been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement
- it may have performed, and the Colours, Trophies, &c., it may have
- captured from the Enemy.
-
- ---- The Names of the Officers, and the number of Non-Commissioned
- Officers and Privates Killed or Wounded by the Enemy, specifying
- the place and Date of the Action.
-
- ---- The Names of those Officers who, in consideration of their
- Gallant Services and Meritorious Conduct in Engagements with the
- Enemy, have been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other Marks
- of His Majesty's gracious favour.
-
- ---- The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and
- Privates, as may have specially signalized themselves in Action.
-
- And,
-
- ---- The Badges and Devices which the Regiment may have been
- permitted to bear, and the Causes on account of which such Badges
- or Devices, or any other Marks of Distinction, have been granted.
-
- By Command of the Right Honorable
- GENERAL LORD HILL,
- _Commanding-in-Chief_.
-
- JOHN MACDONALD,
- _Adjutant-General_.
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE.
-
-
-The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend
-upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are
-animated, and consequently it is of the highest importance that any
-measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, by which alone
-great and gallant actions are achieved, should be adopted.
-
-Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment of this desirable
-object than a full display of the noble deeds with which the Military
-History of our country abounds. To hold forth these bright examples
-to the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to incite him to
-emulate the meritorious conduct of those who have preceded him in
-their honorable career, are among the motives that have given rise to
-the present publication.
-
-The operations of the British Troops are, indeed, announced in the
-"London Gazette," from whence they are transferred into the public
-prints: the achievements of our armies are thus made known at the
-time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute of praise and
-admiration to which they are entitled. On extraordinary occasions,
-the Houses of Parliament have been in the habit of conferring on the
-Commanders, and the Officers and Troops acting under their orders,
-expressions of approbation and of thanks for their skill and bravery;
-and these testimonials, confirmed by the high honour of their
-Sovereign's approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier most
-highly prizes.
-
-It has not, however, until late years, been the practice (which
-appears to have long prevailed in some of the Continental armies)
-for British Regiments to keep regular records of their services
-and achievements. Hence some difficulty has been experienced in
-obtaining, particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic account
-of their origin and subsequent services.
-
-This defect will now be remedied, in consequence of His Majesty
-having been pleased to command that every Regiment shall, in future,
-keep a full and ample record of its services at home and abroad.
-
-From the materials thus collected, the country will henceforth
-derive information as to the difficulties and privations which
-chequer the career of those who embrace the military profession. In
-Great Britain, where so large a number of persons are devoted to
-the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and
-where these pursuits have, for so long a period, being undisturbed
-by the _presence of war_, which few other countries have escaped,
-comparatively little is known of the vicissitudes of active service
-and of the casualties of climate, to which, even during peace, the
-British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or
-no interval of repose.
-
-In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which the country
-derives from the industry and the enterprise of the agriculturist
-and the trader, its happy inhabitants may be supposed not often to
-reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,--on
-their sufferings,--and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so
-many national benefits are obtained and preserved.
-
-The conduct of the British Troops, their valour, and endurance,
-have shone conspicuously under great and trying difficulties; and
-their character has been established in Continental warfare by the
-irresistible spirit with which they have effected debarkations in
-spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the gallantry and
-steadiness with which they have maintained their advantages against
-superior numbers.
-
-In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, ample
-justice has generally been done to the gallant exertions of the
-Corps employed; but the details of their services and of acts of
-individual bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the
-various Regiments.
-
-These Records are now preparing for publication, under his Majesty's
-special authority, by Mr. RICHARD CANNON, Principal Clerk of the
-Adjutant General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot fail
-to be useful and interesting to military men of every rank, it is
-considered that they will also afford entertainment and information
-to the general reader, particularly to those who may have served in
-the Army, or who have relatives in the Service.
-
-There exists in the breasts of most of those who have served, or
-are serving, in the Army, an _Esprit de Corps_--an attachment to
-everything belonging to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative
-of the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove interesting.
-Authentic accounts of the actions of the great, the valiant, the
-loyal, have always been of paramount interest with a brave and
-civilized people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes who,
-in moments of danger and terror, have stood "firm as the rocks
-of their native shore:" and when half the world has been arrayed
-against them, they have fought the battles of their Country with
-unshaken fortitude. It is presumed that a record of achievements in
-war,--victories so complete and surprising, gained by our countrymen,
-our brothers, our fellow citizens in arms,--a record which revives
-the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant deeds before
-us,--will certainly prove acceptable to the public.
-
-Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers
-will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments,
-and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, been
-conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying the value and importance
-of its services, will be faithfully set forth.
-
-As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record of each Regiment will
-be printed in a distinct number, so that when the whole shall be
-completed, the Parts may be bound up in numerical succession.
-
-
-
-
-INTRODUCTION
-
-TO
-
-THE INFANTRY.
-
-
-The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for
-innate courage and unshaken firmness, and the national superiority
-of the British troops over those of other countries has been evinced
-in the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains so
-many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery, that no doubts can
-be raised upon the facts which are recorded. It must therefore be
-admitted, that the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is
-INTREPIDITY. This quality was evinced by the inhabitants of England
-when their country was invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army,
-on which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into the sea to
-attack the Roman soldiers as they descended from their ships; and,
-although their discipline and arms were inferior to those of their
-adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing intimidated the
-flower of the Roman troops, including Cæsar's favourite tenth legion.
-Their arms consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons of
-rude construction. They had chariots, to the axles of which were
-fastened sharp pieces of iron resembling scythe-blades, and infantry
-in long chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and fought on
-foot, and for change of ground, pursuit or retreat, sprang into the
-chariot and drove off with the speed of cavalry. These inventions
-were, however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in the course
-of time a military system, with discipline and subordination, was
-introduced, and British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted to
-the greatest advantage; a full development of the national character
-followed, and it shone forth in all its native brilliancy.
-
-The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted principally of
-infantry: Thanes, and other men of property, however, fought on
-horseback. The infantry were of two classes, heavy and light. The
-former carried large shields armed with spikes, long broad swords and
-spears; and the latter were armed with swords or spears only. They
-had also men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and javelins.
-
-The feudal troops established by William the Conqueror consisted (as
-already stated in the Introduction to the Cavalry) almost entirely
-of horse; but when the warlike barons and knights, with their trains
-of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion of men appeared
-on foot, and, although these were of inferior degree, they proved
-stout-hearted Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary troops
-were employed, infantry always constituted a considerable portion of
-the military force; and this _arme_ has since acquired, in every
-quarter of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the armies of any
-nation at any period.
-
-The weapons carried by the infantry, during the several reigns
-succeeding the Conquest, were bows and arrows, half-pikes, lances,
-halberds, various kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour
-was worn on the head and body, and in course of time the practice
-became general for military men to be so completely cased in steel,
-that it was almost impossible to slay them.
-
-The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the destructive purposes
-of war, in the early part of the fourteenth century, produced a
-change in the arms and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and
-arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but British archers
-continued formidable adversaries; and, owing to the inconvenient
-construction and imperfect bore of the fire-arms when first
-introduced, a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow from
-their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition to every army,
-even as late as the sixteenth century.
-
-During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth each company
-of infantry usually consisted of men armed five different ways; in
-every hundred men forty were "_men-at-arms_," and sixty "_shot_;" the
-"men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe men, and thirty
-pikemen; and the "shot" were twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and
-twenty harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his principal
-weapon, a sword and dagger.
-
-Companies of infantry varied at this period in numbers from 150
-to 300 men; each company had a colour or ensign, and the mode of
-formation recommended by an English military writer (Sir John Smithe)
-in 1590 was:--the colour in the centre of the company guarded by the
-halberdiers; the pikemen in equal proportions, on each flank of the
-halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of the pikes; half
-the archers on each flank of the musketeers, and the harquebusiers
-(whose arms were much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal
-proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.[1] It
-was customary to unite a number of companies into one body, called
-a REGIMENT, which frequently amounted to three thousand men: but
-each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous improvements
-were eventually introduced in the construction of fire-arms, and,
-it having been found impossible to make armour proof against the
-muskets then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without its
-being too weighty for the soldier, armour was gradually laid aside by
-the infantry in the seventeenth century: bows and arrows also fell
-into disuse, and the infantry were reduced to two classes, viz.:
-_musketeers_, armed with matchlock muskets, swords, and daggers; and
-_pikemen_, armed with pikes from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and
-swords.
-
-In the early part of the seventeenth century Gustavus Adolphus, King
-of Sweden, reduced the strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused
-the gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in flasks, or in
-small wooden bandoliers, each containing a charge, to be made up
-into cartridges, and carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment
-into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division of pikemen. He
-also adopted the practice of forming four regiments into a brigade;
-and the number of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each
-regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that his infantry could
-resist the charge of the celebrated Polish horsemen and Austrian
-cuirassiers; and his armies became the admiration of other nations.
-His mode of formation was copied by the English, French, and other
-European states; but so great was the prejudice in favour of ancient
-customs, that all his improvements were not adopted until near a
-century afterwards.
-
-In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service, styled the
-Admiral's regiment. In 1678 each company of 100 men usually consisted
-of 30 pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with light firelocks.
-In this year the King added a company of men armed with hand grenades
-to each of the old British regiments, which was designated the
-"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived as to fit in the
-muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets similar to those at present in
-use were adopted about twenty years afterwards.
-
-An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by order of King James II.,
-to guard the artillery, and was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now
-7th Foot). This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did not carry
-pikes.
-
-King William III. incorporated the Admiral's regiment in the second
-Foot Guards, and raised two Marine regiments for sea-service.
-During the war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting
-the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14 pikemen and 46
-musketeers; the captains carried pikes; lieutenants, partisans;
-ensigns, half-pikes; and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697
-the Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again formed on the
-breaking out of the war in 1702.[2]
-
-During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were laid aside, and every
-infantry soldier was armed with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the
-grenadiers ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades;
-and the regiments were directed to lay aside their third colour: the
-corps of Royal Artillery was first added to the Army in this reign.
-
-About the year 1745, the men of the battalion companies of infantry
-ceased to carry swords; during the reign of George II. light
-companies were added to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of
-General Officers recommended that the grenadiers should lay aside
-their swords, as that weapon had never been used during the Seven
-Years' War. Since that period the arms of the infantry soldier have
-been limited to the musket and bayonet.
-
-The arms and equipment of the British Troops have seldom differed
-materially, since the Conquest, from those of other European states;
-and in some respects the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed
-to be inferior to that of the nations with whom they have had to
-contend; yet, under this disadvantage, the bravery and superiority of
-the British infantry have been evinced on very many and most trying
-occasions, and splendid victories have been gained over very superior
-numbers.
-
-Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like champions who have
-dared to confront a host of foes, and have proved themselves valiant
-with any arms. At _Crecy_, King Edward III., at the head of about
-30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August, 1346, Philip King of
-France, whose army is said to have amounted to 100,000 men; here
-British valour encountered veterans of renown:--the King of Bohemia,
-the King of Majorca, and many princes and nobles were slain, and
-the French army was routed and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards,
-Edward Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black Prince,
-defeated, at _Poictiers_, with 14,000 men, a French army of 60,000
-horse, besides infantry, and took John I., King of France, and his
-son Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415, King Henry
-V., with an army of about 13,000 men, although greatly exhausted by
-marches, privations, and sickness, defeated, at _Agincourt_, the
-Constable of France, at the head of the flower of the French nobility
-and an army said to amount to 60,000 men, and gained a complete
-victory.
-
-During the seventy years' war between the United Provinces of the
-Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy, which commenced in 1578 and
-terminated in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the
-States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable spirit and
-firmness;[3] and in the thirty years' war between the Protestant
-Princes and the Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the
-service of Sweden and other states were celebrated for deeds of
-heroism.[4] In the wars of Queen Anne, the fame of the British army
-under the great MARLBOROUGH was spread throughout the world; and
-if we glance at the achievements performed within the memory of
-persons now living, there is abundant proof that the Britons of the
-present age are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities
-which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds of the brave men,
-of whom there are many now surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801,
-under the brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army, which had
-been vainly styled _Invincible_, to evacuate that country; also the
-services of the gallant Troops during the arduous campaigns in the
-Peninsula, under the immortal WELLINGTON; and the determined stand
-made by British Army at Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had
-long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain, and had sought and
-planned her destruction by every means he could devise, was compelled
-to leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to place himself
-at the disposal of the British Government These achievements, with
-others of recent dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the
-same valour and constancy which glowed in the breasts of the heroes
-of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to
-animate the Britons of the nineteenth century.
-
-The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust and muscular
-frame,--intrepidity which no danger can appal,--unconquerable
-spirit and resolution,--patience in fatigue and privation, and
-cheerful obedience to his superiors. These qualities, united with
-an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate and give
-a skilful direction to the energies and adventurous spirit of the
-hero, and a wise selection of officers of superior talent to command,
-whose presence inspires confidence,--have been the leading causes
-of the splendid victories gained by the British arms.[5] The fame
-of the deeds of the past and present generations in the various
-battle-fields where the robust sons of Albion have fought and
-conquered, surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory; these
-achievements will live in the page of history to the end of time.
-
-The records of the several regiments will be found to contain a
-detail of facts of an interesting character, connected with the
-hardships, sufferings, and gallant exploits of British soldiers in
-the various parts of the world, where the calls of their Country and
-the commands of their Sovereign have required them to proceed in the
-execution of their duty, whether in active continental operations,
-or in maintaining colonial territories in distant and unfavourable
-climes.
-
-The superiority of the British infantry has been pre-eminently set
-forth in the wars of six centuries, and admitted by the greatest
-commanders which Europe has produced. The formations and movements of
-this _arme_, as at present practised, while they are adapted to every
-species of warfare, and to all probable situations and circumstances
-of service, are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military
-tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific principles.
-Although the movements and evolutions have been copied from the
-continental armies, yet various improvements have from time to time
-been introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by which the
-superiority of the national military character is maintained. The
-rank and influence which Great Britain has attained among the nations
-of the world, have in a great measure been purchased by the valour
-of the Army, and to persons who have the welfare of their country
-at heart, the records of the several regiments cannot fail to prove
-interesting.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES:
-
-[1] A company of 200 men would appear thus:--
-
- __|
- | |
- |__|
- |
- 20 20 20 30 2|0 30 20 20 20
- |
- Harquebuses. Muskets. Halberds. Muskets. Harquebuses.
- Archers. Pikes. Pikes. Archers.
-
-The musket carried a ball which weighed 1/10th of a pound; and the
-harquebus a ball which weighed 1/25th of a pound.
-
-[2] The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps
-in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of
-Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under Admiral
-Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and in its
-subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at the
-siege of Barcelona in 1705.
-
-[3] The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed
-in 1590, observes:--"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation
-would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the
-field, let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the
-Spanish infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe.
-For instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the
-Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or
-Buffs.
-
-[4] _Vide_ the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of
-Foot.
-
-[5] "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes
-the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in
-Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but
-His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed
-on the consideration of every part of the army, that it has been a
-strict observance of order, discipline, and military system, which
-has given the full energy to the native valour of the troops, and
-has enabled them proudly to assert the superiority of the national
-military character, in situations uncommonly arduous, and under
-circumstances of peculiar difficulty."--_General Orders in 1801._
-
-In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope
-(afterwards Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the
-successful result of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January,
-1809, it is stated:--"On no occasion has the undaunted valour of
-British troops ever been more manifest. At the termination of a
-severe and harassing march, rendered necessary by the superiority
-which the enemy had acquired, and which had materially impaired the
-efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages were to be encountered.
-These have all been surmounted by the conduct of the troops
-themselves; and the enemy has been taught, that whatever advantages
-of position or of numbers he may possess, there is inherent in
-the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not how to
-yield,--that no circumstances can appal,--and that will ensure
-victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human
-means."
-
-
-
-
- THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
- OR
-
- THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT,
-
- BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR
-
- THE WORDS
-
- "SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD,"
-
- IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY
- IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE,
- DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843;
-
- AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES
-
- OF MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD,
-
- FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY,
- ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843.
-
-
-
-
-THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
-OR
-
-THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
-
-
-
-
-CONTENTS
-
-OF THE
-
-HISTORICAL RECORD.
-
-
- YEAR PAGE
-
- INTRODUCTION.
-
- 1689 Formation of the Regiment 1
-
- ---- Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy -
-
- ---- Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment -
-
- ---- Stationed at Chester -
-
- ---- Embarked for Ireland -
-
- ---- Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus 2
-
- ---- Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh -
-
- ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment,
- appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to
- the Duke of Norfolk -
-
- 1690 Engaged at the _Battle of the Boyne_ -
-
- ---- Reviewed by King William at _Finglass_ -
-
- ---- Advanced against Athlone -
-
- ---- Rejoined the Army -
-
- ---- Employed at the first siege of Limerick -
-
- ---- Proceeded into winter-quarters -
-
- ---- Engaged with the Rapparees -
-
- 1691 Proceeded with the Army against _Ballymore_ 3
-
- 1691 Engaged in the Siege and Capture of _Athlone_ 3
-
- ---- Engaged at the Battle of _Aghrim_ -
-
- ---- Engaged at the Capture of _Galway_ -
-
- ---- ------------------------ _Limerick_ 4
-
- ---- Termination of the War in Ireland -
-
- 1695 Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders -
-
- 1696 Returned to England -
-
- 1697 Treaty of Peace concluded at _Ryswick_ -
-
- 1698 Re-embarked for Ireland 5
-
- 1701 Appointment of Brigadier-General William
- Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot,
- with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis -
-
- 1702 Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King
- William III -
-
- ---- Regiment embarked for Jamaica -
-
- ---- Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General
- Selwyn, deceased -
-
- 1705 Establishment augmented by two companies -
-
- 1712 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to
- the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father,
- Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired 6
-
- 1713 Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht -
-
- 1714 Regiment returned to England, leaving two
- Independent Companies at Jamaica -
-
- 1715 Employed in recruiting its Establishment -
-
- 1718 Embarked for _Ireland_ -
-
- 1726 ------------ _Minorca_ -
-
- 1727 Detachment embarked for _Gibraltar_ to assist in
- its Defence against the Spaniards -
-
- 1730 Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from
- the Twenty-Eighth Regiment, to the Colonelcy,
- in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd,
- removed to the Sixteenth Regiment -
-
- 1734 Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to
- the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel William
- Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot 7
-
- 1737 Appointment of Major-General John Moyle,
- from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, to the Colonelcy,
- in succession to Colonel Hon. James
- St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment
- of Foot -
-
- 1738 Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the
- Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General
- Moyle, deceased -
-
- 1741 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell,
- from the Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in
- succession to Colonel Paget, deceased -
-
- 1748 Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle -
-
- 1749 Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to
- Ireland -
-
- 1751 Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating
- the Clothing, Colours, Numbers,
- Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of
- the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry -
-
- 1756 War declared against France -
-
- ---- Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America -
-
- 1757 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore
- from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment to the Colonelcy,
- in succession to Major-General
- O'Farrell, deceased 8
-
- 1758 Engaged in the siege of _Louisburg_, and the
- Capture of the Island of _Cape Breton_ -
-
- 1759 The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the
- Louisburg Grenadiers,--Engaged at the Battle
- of Quebec 9
-
- 1760 Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to
- _Quebec_, and advanced to _Montreal_ -
-
- ---- Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas -
-
- 1761 Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the
- _West Indies_ 9
-
- ---- Engaged in the capture of the Island of _Dominica_ 10
-
- 1762 Engaged in the Capture of _Martinique_, _Grenada_,
- _St. Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_ --
-
- ---- Embarked with the expedition against the
- _Havannah_ --
-
- ---- Storming and Capture of _Fort Moro_ 11
-
- ---- Appointment of Major-General Honorable
- Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy, in succession
- to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea --
-
- 1763 Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau --
-
- ---- The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange
- for the Province of Florida, in South America --
-
- ---- Regiment proceeded to West Florida --
-
- 1765 Embarked for Great Britain --
-
- 1773 Proceeded to Ireland --
-
- 1775 Embarked for North America 12
-
- ---- Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill --
-
- 1776 Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia --
-
- ---- Embarked for Staten Island, near New York --
-
- ---- Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the
- Americans at Brooklyn --
-
- ---- Gained possession of New York, captured Fort
- Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys 13
-
- ---- Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode
- Island --
-
- 1778 The King of France having united with the
- Americans, made preparations for the re-capture
- of Rhode Island, but was compelled
- to abandon the siege 14
-
- 1779 The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to
- vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded
- to New York 15
-
- 1782 Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the
- Colonelcy, in succession to General the Honorable
- Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons 15
-
- ---- Regiment received instructions to assume the title of
- _the Twenty-Second_, or _the Cheshire Regiment_ --
-
- 1783 The American War having terminated, the regiment
- embarked for England --
-
- 1785 Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards
- at the Castle --
-
- ---- King George the III. authorized an _Order of Merit_ to
- be instituted in the corps --
-
- 1787 Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and thence to
- Portsmouth 16
-
- 1788 Proceeded to Chatham and Dover --
-
- 1790 Embarked for Ireland --
-
- 1791 Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the
- Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Hara,
- removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders 17
-
- 1793 War commenced between Great Britain and France --
-
- ---- Regiment embarked for the West Indies --
-
- 1794 Capture of the Island of Martinique --
-
- ---- ---- ---- St. Lucia --
-
- ---- ---- ---- Guadaloupe --
-
- ---- ---- ---- St. Domingo --
-
- 1795 Returned to England from St. Domingo 18
-
- ---- Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the
- Eighty-Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession
- to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light
- Dragoons --
-
- 1798 Proceeded to Guernsey --
-
- 1798 Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the
- Eighty-First Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession
- to Major-General Crosbie, deceased 18
-
- 1799 Removed to Portsmouth 19
-
- ---- Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being
- sent to the Cape of Good Hope, preparatory to being
- embarked for service in the East Indies --
-
- 1800 Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope --
-
- 1802 Proceeded to India 20
-
- 1803 Arrival at Calcutta --
-
- ---- The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force
- assembled for the attack of the province of Cuttack --
-
- ---- Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of
- Barrabatta by storm --
-
- 1804 Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege
- of Bhurtpore 21
-
- 1805 Marched from _Fort William_ and encamped at _Benares_,
- thence proceeded to _Cawnpore_ --
-
- ---- Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies
- distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks --
-
- ---- _Rajah Sing_ submitted and concluded a treaty of peace 22
-
- ---- British army withdrew from Bhurtpore --
-
- ---- The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore --
-
- ---- _Holkar_ and _Scindia_ concluded Treaties of Peace --
-
- 1806 Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to _Delhi_ --
-
- ---- Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the
- Governor-General in Council and of General Lord Lake,
- Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war --
-
- 1806 Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig,
- K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased 22
-
- 1807 Proceeded to Berhampore --
-
- 1809 Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to General Sir James
- Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders --
-
- 1810 Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the
- expedition against the Mauritius --
-
- ---- Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius 23
-
- 1811 Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of
- Madagascar --
-
- 1812 Proceeded to Bourbon --
-
- 1813 Removed a second time to the Mauritius --
-
- 1814 A second Battalion added to the establishment of the
- regiment, which was reduced in the same year --
-
- 1815 The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the
- Mauritius from Hindoostan 24
-
- 1819 Embarked for England from the Mauritius --
-
- ---- Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton 25
-
- 1821 Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland --
-
- 1822 Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men
- assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork. The officers
- commanding this detachment received the thanks of
- H. R. H. the Duke of York, and were presented with a
- silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the
- Town of Newmarket, for attacking and defeating this
- body of insurgents --
-
- 1826 Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies
- preparatory to embarkation for foreign service 26
-
- ---- Service Companies embarked for Jamaica --
-
- 1830 Depôt Companies embarked for England 27
-
- 1831 Service Companies employed in suppressing an
- insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica --
-
- 1836 Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland --
-
- 1837 Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland,
- and rejoined by the Depôt Companies --
-
- 1840 Embarked from Ireland for England --
-
- 1841 Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah 28
-
- 1842 Proceeded to _Scinde_, and encamped at Kurrachee --
-
- 1843 Employed in the destruction of the Fort of _Emaum Ghur_ --
-
- ---- The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described
- by Major-General William E. P. Napier 29
-
- ---- The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr 30
-
- ---- Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde --
-
- ---- Treacherous attack upon the British residency at
- _Hyderabad_, and gallant defence made by the _Light
- Company_ of the _Twenty-Second_ regiment --
-
- ---- Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir
- Charles Napier 31
-
- ---- Battle of Meeanee --
-
- ---- Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle --
-
- ---- British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad 32
-
- ---- Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee --
-
- ---- Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment 34
-
- ---- Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed 36
-
- ---- Battle of Hyderabad --
-
- ---- Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert 37
-
- ---- Particulars of the march of the British troops through
- the desert --
-
- 1843 Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and
- by the British Parliament, on the Twenty-second
- regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde 38
-
- ---- Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops
- in distributing the medals conferred on them for their
- gallantry in this campaign 40
-
- ---- Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee 42
-
- ---- Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir
- Charles Napier's order on the occasion 43
-
- ---- Embarked for Bombay --
-
- ---- Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay --
-
- ---- Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the
- Colonelcy, in succession to General Honorable E. Finch,
- deceased 44
-
- 1844 Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts --
-
- ---- Capture of Forts _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_ --
-
- ---- Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district 45
-
- ---- Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh --
-
- 1845 Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts --
-
- ---- Returned to Poonah --
-
- 1846 Marched to Bombay 46
-
- 1847 Removed to Poonah --
-
- 1849 Proceeded to Bombay --
-
- ---- Conclusion --
-
-
- Description of the Standards captured at the battles of
- Meeanee and Hyderabad, and of the Medal conferred in
- honor of the victories obtained at those places 47
-
-
-
-
-SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
-
-OF
-
-THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
-OR
-
-THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
-
-
- YEAR PAGE
-
- 1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk 48
-
- ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt. 49
-
- 1701 William Selwyn 51
-
- 1702 Thomas Handasyd --
-
- 1712 Roger Handasyd 52
-
- 1730 William Barrell --
-
- 1734 _Hon._ James St. Clair --
-
- 1737 John Moyle 53
-
- 1738 Thomas Paget 54
-
- 1741 Richard O'Farrell --
-
- 1757 Edward Whitmore --
-
- 1762 _Hon._ Thomas Gage 55
-
- 1782 Charles O'Hara 56
-
- 1791 David Dundas 57
-
- 1795 William Crosbie 59
-
- 1798 John Graves Simcoe 60
-
- 1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B. 61
-
- 1809 _Hon._ Edward Finch 62
-
- 1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. 63
-
-
-PLATES.
-
- Colours of the Regiment _to face_ 1
-
- Costume of the Regiment 32
-
- Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the
- Battle of Meeanee in 1843; and of the Silver
- Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged
- in the Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad 47
-
-
-[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
-
-QUEEN'S COLOUR.
-
-REGIMENTAL COLOUR.
-
-FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.
-
-_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand_]
-
-
-
-
-HISTORICAL RECORD
-
-OF
-
-THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
-OR
-
-THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
-
-
-[Sidenote: 1689]
-
-The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in February,
-1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations of security to the
-civil and religious institutions of the country, and of prosperity
-in every branch of national industry; but in Ireland the majority
-of the people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and a
-body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance of that
-country from the power of King James, who had landed there with
-an armament from France. On this occasion HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK,
-evinced zeal for the principles of the Revolution, and raised a
-regiment of pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers
-was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of his Grace
-now bears the title of the TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF
-FOOT.
-
-Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped, and disciplined,
-the regiment was encamped near Chester in the early part of August,
-and soon afterwards embarked for Ireland, with the forces commanded
-by Marshal Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of
-_Carrickfergus_ was commenced, and the garrison of that fortress was
-forced to surrender in a few days.
-
-From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the army to Dundalk,
-where the troops were encamped on low and wet ground, and suffered
-much in their health.
-
-While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the Duke of Norfolk was
-succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir Henry Bellasis, who had commanded
-the Sixth regiment of foot when it was in the Dutch service.
-
-On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its march from Dundalk
-for Armagh, for winter-quarters.
-
-[Sidenote: 1690]
-
-In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to serve at the
-battle of the _Boyne_, under the eye of its Sovereign, who commanded
-the army in Ireland in person; and on this occasion it took part in
-forcing the passage of the river, and in gaining a decisive victory
-over the army of King James on the 1st of July.
-
-Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin, the regiment
-was reviewed by King William at Finglass, on the 8th of July, and
-mustered six hundred and twenty-eight rank and file under arms.
-It was afterwards detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against
-Athlone; but that fortress was found better provided for a siege than
-had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the army.
-
-The TWENTY-SECOND was one of the corps employed at the siege of
-_Limerick_. Many things combined to prevent the capture of that
-fortress until the following year, and when the siege was raised,
-the regiment proceeded into winter-quarters, from whence it sent
-out detachments, which had several rencounters with bands of armed
-peasantry, called Rapparees.
-
-[Sidenote: 1691]
-
-On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army commanded by
-Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards Earl of Athlone) on its march
-for _Ballymore_, which fortress was speedily forced to surrender.
-
-From Ballymore, the regiment marched to _Athlone_, and had the honour
-to take part in the siege of that fortress, which was captured by
-storm on the 1st of July. The grenadier company of the regiment
-formed part of the storming party, which forded the river Shannon
-under a heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry. The
-capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid achievements which
-have exalted the reputation of the British arms, and its reduction
-proved a presage of additional triumphs.
-
-Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone, General St. Ruth
-retreated, with the French and Irish army under his orders, to a
-position at _Aghrim_, where he was attacked on the 12th of July. On
-this occasion, the regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by
-its Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it contributed
-towards the complete overthrow of the army of King James, which was
-driven from the field with severe loss, including its commander,
-General St. Ruth, who was killed by a cannon-ball.
-
-The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers killed; one
-Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded.
-
-On the 19th of July the army approached _Galway_; after sunset six
-regiments of foot and four squadrons of horse and dragoons passed the
-river by pontoons, and on the following morning they captured some
-outworks. On the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General
-Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway, and he took
-possession of the town with the TWENTY-SECOND and two other regiments
-of foot.
-
-The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege and capitulation
-of _Limerick_, which city was surrendered in September, and completed
-the deliverance of Ireland from the power of King James.
-
-[Sidenote: 1692]
-
-[Sidenote: 1695]
-
-After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed in garrison
-and other duties of home-service, until 1695, when it proceeded to
-the Netherlands, to reinforce the army commanded by King William
-III., who was engaged in war for the preservation of the liberties of
-Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of France. After landing at
-Ostend, the regiment was placed in garrison.
-
-[Sidenote: 1696]
-
-Some advantages had been gained over the French arms; to counteract
-which, Louis XIV. attempted to weaken the confederates by forming
-plans for causing England to become the theatre of civil war. With
-this view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in the
-French service were sent to England in disguise, to instigate the
-adherents of King James to take arms; a plot was also formed for
-the assassination of King William, and a French army marched to
-the coast to be in readiness to embark for England. Under these
-circumstances the TWENTY-SECOND regiment and a number of other corps
-were ordered to return to England, where they arrived in March, 1696,
-and the TWENTY-SECOND landed at Gravesend. The conspirators for the
-assassination of King William were discovered; several persons were
-apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the French ports,
-and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated.
-
-[Sidenote: 1697]
-
-In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded at Ryswick,
-and the British Monarch saw his efforts for the civil and religious
-liberties of Europe attended with success.
-
-[Sidenote: 1698]
-
-[Sidenote: 1700]
-
-The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was afterwards sent to Ireland, where it
-was stationed during the remainder of the reign of King William III.
-
-[Sidenote: 1701]
-
-On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment was
-conferred on Brigadier-General William Selwyn, in succession to
-Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis, who was removed to the Second
-foot, then styled the Queen Dowager's regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1702]
-
-King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded by Queen
-Anne, who declared war against France. Brigadier-General Selwyn
-was nominated Governor of Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of
-Major-General on the 10th of June, 1702. The TWENTY-SECOND regiment
-was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other corps also
-embarked for stations in the West Indies: the British government
-designing to make a general attack on the possessions of France and
-Spain in South America.
-
-Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded in the
-colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel, Thomas Handasyd, by
-commission dated the 20th of June, 1702.
-
-[Sidenote: 1703]
-
-A considerable body of troops arrived in the West Indies in 1703: but
-they were afterwards recalled to take part in the war in Europe. The
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment was left at the island of Jamaica, and during
-the reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in protecting
-Jamaica, and the other British settlements in the West Indies, which
-important duty it performed with reputation.
-
-[Sidenote: 1704]
-
-[Sidenote: 1705]
-
-While employed on this duty, the regiment received drafts from
-several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation of two companies was
-made to its establishment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1712]
-
-Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General in
-December, 1705, and to that of Major-General in January, 1710. In
-1712 he retired from the colonelcy, resigning his commission in
-favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd, of the regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1713]
-
-[Sidenote: 1714]
-
-In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace to Europe;
-and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was issued for the men of the
-regiment fit for duty to be formed into two independent companies for
-service at Jamaica: the officers and staff returning to Europe to
-recruit.
-
-The two independent companies thus formed from the TWENTY-SECOND
-were the nucleus of the FORTY-NINTH regiment, which was formed of
-independent companies at Jamaica in 1743.
-
-[Sidenote: 1715]
-
-[Sidenote: 1718]
-
-The officers and the serjeants not required for the independent
-companies, having arrived in England, were actively employed in
-recruiting in 1715; and in 1718 the regiment proceeded to Ireland.
-
-[Sidenote: 1719]
-
-[Sidenote: 1726]
-
-The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight years from
-1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned year, it
-proceeded to the island of Minorca, which had been captured by the
-English, in 1708, and was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of
-Utrecht in 1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar.
-
-[Sidenote: 1727]
-
-In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged _Gibraltar_, and a
-detachment of the regiment, being sent to reinforce the garrison, had
-the honor to take part in the successful defence of that important
-fortress. When the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment
-rejoined the regiment at Minorca.
-
-[Sidenote: 1730]
-
-Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with reputation until 1730,
-when he was removed to the Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by
-Brigadier-General William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1734]
-
-Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth foot in 1734,
-when King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment on Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the
-First foot-guards.
-
-[Sidenote: 1737]
-
-On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair was
-removed to the First, the Royal regiment of foot, and his Majesty
-nominated Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the
-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1738]
-
-Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November, 1738, and the
-colonelcy was afterwards conferred on Colonel Thomas Paget, from the
-Thirty-second regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1739]
-
-[Sidenote: 1741]
-
-In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.
-He died on the 28th of May, 1741, and was succeeded in the colonelcy
-of the regiment by Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth
-foot.
-
-[Sidenote: 1748]
-
-[Sidenote: 1749]
-
-The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was employed in the protection of the
-island of Minorca, during the whole of the War of the Austrian
-Succession, and, peace having been concluded, it was relieved from
-that duty in 1749, and proceeded to Ireland.
-
-[Sidenote: 1751]
-
-In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and distinctions of
-the several regiments of the army, dated the 1st of July, 1751, the
-facings of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment were directed to be of _pale
-buff_. The First, or King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second,
-or Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in the
-upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number of the Rank of
-the regiment, in gold Roman characters, within a wreath of roses and
-thistles on the same stalk.
-
-[Sidenote: 1755]
-
-[Sidenote: 1756]
-
-The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755 by the
-aggressions of the French on the British territory in North America;
-and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was declared against France; in the
-same year the TWENTY-SECOND regiment embarked from Ireland for North
-America.
-
-[Sidenote: 1757]
-
-In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the Forty-third,
-Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the Sixtieth, under
-Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with the view of being employed in
-the attack of _Louisburg_, the capital of the French island of _Cape
-Breton_, situate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was
-deferred until the following year, and the regiment was stationed in
-Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General O'Farrell died in the
-summer of this year, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred
-on Brigadier-General Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of
-the Thirty-sixth regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1758]
-
-Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the command of
-Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the regiment proceeded with the
-expedition commanded by Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst,
-and a landing was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the
-8th of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry. The
-TWENTY-SECOND had Lieutenants Pierce Butler, John Jermyn, and William
-Hamilton wounded; also several private soldiers killed and wounded.[6]
-
-The siege of _Louisburg_, the capital of the island, was afterwards
-commenced; and in carrying on the approaches the troops underwent
-great fatigue with cheerful alacrity. By their perseverance, and
-the co-operation of the fleet, the town was taken in July, and two
-other islands in the Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the
-thanks of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for their
-conduct on this occasion.
-
-[Sidenote: 1759]
-
-During the year 1759 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment was stationed at
-Louisburg. Major-General James Wolfe proceeded up the river St.
-Lawrence, with a small armament,[7] and Quebec was captured; but the
-nation sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was killed in
-the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front of Quebec, on the 13th
-of September, 1759.
-
-[Sidenote: 1760]
-
-In the spring of 1760 the TWENTY-SECOND and Fortieth regiments
-proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel Lord Rollo, of the
-TWENTY-SECOND, up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they
-advanced upon _Montreal_, with the troops under Brigadier-General
-the Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in Canada were
-invaded at three points, and the Governor concentrated his forces at
-Montreal; but he was unable to withstand the valour and discipline of
-British troops, commanded by officers of talent and experience; he
-therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada, the French
-battalions becoming prisoners of war. The TWENTY-SECOND had thus the
-honor of taking part in the conquest of the two fine provinces of
-Upper and Lower Canada, which have since continued to form part of
-the possessions of the British Crown.
-
-[Sidenote: 1761]
-
-After the conquest of Canada, the TWENTY-SECOND were removed to
-Albany, from whence they proceeded to New York, in April, 1761, and
-afterwards embarked, under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies.
-
-The island of _Dominica_ had been declared neutral; but it was found
-to be so much under the influence of France, and proved a refuge
-to so many privateers of that nation, that the British government
-resolved to take possession of it. The TWENTY-SECOND, and other corps
-under Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June, under
-cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove the enemy from his
-batteries: the grenadiers of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment distinguished
-themselves on this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to
-submission with little loss.
-
-[Sidenote: 1762]
-
-From Dominica the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded to Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes,
-and joined the troops assembled at that place under the orders of
-Major-General the Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the
-French island of _Martinique_. After several attempts on other parts
-of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des Navières Bay, on the
-16th of January, 1762; the works on the heights of _Morne Tortenson_
-were captured on the 24th of that month; _Morne Garnier_ was carried
-on the 27th; and the citadel of _Fort Royal_ surrendered on the 4th
-of February. These successes were followed by the surrender of the
-opulent city of St. Pierre, and the submission of the whole island
-to the British Crown. The Commander of the expedition stated in his
-despatch--"I cannot find words to render that ample justice which is
-due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have had the honor
-to command. The difficulties they had to encounter in the attack of
-an enemy possessed of every advantage of art and nature were great;
-and their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles, furnishes a
-noble example of British spirit."
-
-The capture of Martinique was followed by that of _Grenada_, _St.
-Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_; and the acquisition of these islands
-gave additional honor to the expedition of which the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment formed part.
-
-Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment, mustering six hundred and two rank and file, under
-the command of Major Loftus, joined the expedition commanded by
-General the Earl of Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and
-important Spanish city of the _Havannah_, in the island of Cuba The
-TWENTY-SECOND, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five companies of the
-Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under Brigadier-General Lord Rollo.
-
-Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament arrived
-within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th of June. A landing
-was effected on the following day, and the _Moro_ fort, being the
-key-position of the extensive works which covered the town, was
-besieged. This proved an undertaking of great difficulty; but every
-obstacle was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea
-forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of July. An
-extensive series of batteries was prepared, and opened, on the 11th
-of August, so well-directed a fire on the works which protected the
-town, that the guns of the garrison were soon silenced, and the
-important city of the Havannah was surrendered to the British arms.
-Nine Spanish men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the
-stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour.
-
-In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who was drowned at
-sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by Major-General the Honorable
-Thomas Gage, from the Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which
-was raised in 1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau.
-
-[Sidenote: 1763]
-
-At the peace of Fontainebleau the _Havannah_ was restored to Spain,
-in exchange for the province of Florida, on the continent of America;
-and in 1763 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment proceeded to _West Florida_.
-
-[Sidenote: 1764]
-
-[Sidenote: 1765]
-
-The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year 1764, and in
-1765 it was relieved from duty in that province, and embarked for
-Great Britain.
-
-[Sidenote: 1766]
-
-[Sidenote: 1770]
-
-[Sidenote: 1772]
-
-[Sidenote: 1773]
-
-From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at various stations in
-England; during the years 1770, 1771, and 1772, it performed duty in
-Scotland; and in 1773 it proceeded to Ireland.
-
-[Sidenote: 1775]
-
-While the TWENTY-SECOND were stationed in Ireland the
-misunderstanding between the English government and the British
-provinces in North America, on the subject of taxation, was followed
-by hostilities. The regiment embarked from Ireland for North America
-in 1775, and joined the troops at Boston under General Gage.
-
-During the night of the 16th of June the Americans commenced
-fortifying the heights on the peninsula of Charlestown, called
-_Bunker's Hill_; and on the following day they were attacked by the
-flank companies of the British corps, and by a few regiments, and
-driven from their works. The TWENTY-SECOND lost their commanding
-officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who died of his wounds. He
-was succeeded by Major James Campbell.
-
-[Sidenote: 1776]
-
-General Sir William Howe assumed the command of the British troops in
-North America, on General Gage returning to England in October, 1775;
-in March, 1776, Boston was vacated, when the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded
-to Nova Scotia.
-
-From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition to Staten
-Island, near New York; and, additional troops having arrived from
-Europe, it was formed in brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth,
-and Sixty-third, under Brigadier-General Francis Smith.
-
-A landing was effected on _Long Island_ on the 22nd of August; and
-on the 27th of that month the TWENTY-SECOND were engaged in driving
-the Americans from their positions at _Flat Bush_ to their fortified
-lines at _Brooklyn_. The flank companies had several men killed and
-wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion companies was
-limited to two men.
-
-The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and passed the
-river to New York. They were followed by the British, who gained
-possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced a great
-part of the Jerseys.
-
-During the winter the regiment was detached, with several other
-corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and Earl Percy, against _Rhode
-Island_. The regiment embarked on this service in the beginning of
-December, and a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that
-month, the island was speedily reduced to submission.
-
-[Sidenote: 1777]
-
-During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in Rhode Island.
-On the 10th of July the American Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode
-Island with a few active men, surprised Major-General Richard
-Prescott in his quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner.
-
-[Sidenote: 1778]
-
-In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General Sullivan had
-taken the command of the American troops at Providence, with the
-view of making a descent on Rhode Island; and on the night of the
-24th of May the battalion companies of the TWENTY-SECOND, the flank
-companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians, embarked
-under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the TWENTY-SECOND, to attack the
-enemy's quarters. After landing three miles below _Warren_, early
-on the following morning, a detachment under Captain Seir of the
-TWENTY-SECOND destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a
-Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another detachment
-destroyed a number of boats, a galley of six twelve pounders, and two
-sloops, in the Kickamuct River. The party then marched to Warren,
-destroyed a park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer
-sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further quantity of stores
-was destroyed. The Americans assembled in great numbers, and fired on
-the British from a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant
-HAMILTON of the TWENTY-SECOND, eight British, and four Hessian
-soldiers were wounded.
-
-On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major Eyre of the
-Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to a creek near Taunton
-River, and inflicted a severe loss on the Americans.
-
-The King of France having united with the Americans, a French
-armament arrived off the coast, and formidable preparations were
-made for the re-capture of Rhode Island. The French fleet, however,
-sustained some severe losses from a storm, and from the English
-navy. A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan landed
-at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and commenced the siege
-of _Newport_, in defence of which place the TWENTY-SECOND were
-employed. The place being defended with great resolution, and
-the Americans being disappointed of aid from the French fleet,
-they raised the siege, and retired on the 29th of August. The
-TWENTY-SECOND, Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth
-and Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General Smith, by
-the east road, to intercept the retreating enemy. A stand was made
-by the Americans, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the
-TWENTY-SECOND, under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished
-themselves. The Americans were driven from _Quakers' Hill_, when they
-fell back to their works at the north end of the island, from which
-they afterwards withdrew. Major-General Pigot stated in his public
-despatch,--"To these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add
-Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the general tribute
-due to the good conduct of every individual under his command,
-has particularly distinguished Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL and the
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment, on whom, by their position, the greatest
-weight of the action fell." The regiment had eleven rank and file
-killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two
-serjeants, and forty-eight rank and file wounded; one man missing.
-
-[Sidenote: 1779]
-
-The British Commander-in-Chief in North America, Lieut.-General Sir
-Henry Clinton, having resolved to vacate Rhode Island, the regiment
-embarked from thence on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to
-New York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month.
-
-[Sidenote: 1780]
-
-During the remainder of the American War the regiment was stationed
-at New York and the posts in advance of that city.
-
-[Sidenote: 1782]
-
-General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed to the Seventeenth
-Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and King George III. conferred the
-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment on Major-General Charles
-O'Hara, from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards.
-
-A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to the
-regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be designated the
-TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE regiment, in order that a connexion
-between the corps and that county should be cultivated, with the view
-of promoting the success of the recruiting service.
-
-[Sidenote: 1783]
-
-The American War having terminated, the regiment returned to Europe
-in 1783 and was stationed in South Britain.
-
-[Sidenote: 1785]
-
-In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor, under the
-command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and furnished the usual guard
-at the Castle, where his Majesty resided, an "ORDER OF MERIT" was
-instituted in the corps, with the view of promoting good order and
-discipline,--the field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time
-being, to be members of the order. The order consisted of THREE
-CLASSES: the first wore a silver medal gilt, suspended to a blue
-riband two inches broad, and worn round the neck; the second a silver
-medal, and the third a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates
-for the third class must have served seven years with an unblemished
-character; for the second, fourteen; and for the first, twenty-one
-years. On the 1st of July, the KING was graciously pleased to accept
-from Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie a medal of the first class of the
-regimental ORDER OF MERIT: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment
-being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on parade, with the
-non-commissioned officers and soldiers selected to receive medals in
-front, the rules of the order were read; the corps presented arms,
-the band played "God save the King;" the members of the order took
-off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each member with
-his medal; the drums beating a point of war during the whole time.
-
-[Sidenote: 1787]
-
-In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and Jersey, where its
-establishment was augmented; and it was ordered to be held in
-readiness for foreign service, in consequence of some revolutionary
-proceedings in Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to
-Portsmouth, and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced.
-Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of the
-Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct.
-
-[Sidenote: 1788]
-
-On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the regiment received a
-very flattering mark of the high estimation in which its conduct was
-held by the inhabitants.
-
-[Sidenote: 1790]
-
-The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring of 1790, and
-proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on the 5th of April.
-
-[Sidenote: 1791]
-
-Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the Seventy-fourth
-Highlanders in April, 1791, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of
-the TWENTY-SECOND by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of
-the Army in Ireland.
-
-[Sidenote: 1792]
-
-In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform, and the
-establishment was augmented.
-
-[Sidenote: 1793]
-
-Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France, and the violent
-conduct of the republican government in that country occasioned a
-war between Great Britain and France, which commenced in 1793. In
-September of that year the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose of taking part
-in the capture of the French West India islands. They were followed
-by the battalion companies in December.
-
-[Sidenote: 1794]
-
-The flank companies joined the armament under General Sir Charles
-(afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing at three different
-points on the island of _Martinique_, in February, 1794, and
-accomplished in a short period the conquest of that valuable colony.
-
-The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness Prince Edward,
-afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the light infantry under
-Major-General Dundas, were engaged in the conquest of _St. Lucia_ in
-the beginning of April.
-
-After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on _Guadaloupe_,
-and that valuable island was speedily rescued from the power of the
-republican government of France.
-
-The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique, where it was
-joined by the flank companies.
-
-Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Lysaght, proceeded to
-the island of _St. Domingo_, and formed part of the garrison of
-Cape St. Nicholas Mole: and five companies joined the garrison of
-_Busy-town_, which place was besieged by the enemy.
-
-In April, the TWENTY-SECOND, Twenty-third, and Forty-first
-regiments, with some other troops, embarked under the command of
-Brigadier-General John Whyte, for the attack of _Port-au-Prince_, the
-capital of the French possessions in the island of _St. Domingo_.
-A landing was effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting
-occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND distinguished themselves:
-_Fort Bizzotton_ was captured, and the enemy was forced to abandon
-_Port-au-Prince_, which was taken possession of by the British
-troops. The regiment had Captain Wallace killed on this occasion,
-also several private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a
-malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British lost forty
-officers and six hundred soldiers by disease within two months after
-the capture of the place.
-
-A detachment of the regiment formed part of the garrison of _Fort
-Bizzotton_, which was attacked by two thousand of the enemy on
-the 5th of December. The British defended their post with great
-gallantry, and repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the
-TWENTY-SECOND distinguished himself.
-
-Another portion of the regiment was stationed at Jeremie, and a
-detachment at Irois.
-
-[Sidenote: 1795]
-
-Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St. Domingo, the
-regiment was relieved from duty at that island, and returned to
-England in 1795.
-
-Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons, and
-the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND was conferred on Major-General
-William Crosbie, from the Eighty-ninth regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1798]
-
-The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its ranks until
-December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey.
-
-Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded by
-Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the Eighty-first regiment.
-
-[Sidenote: 1799]
-
-In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from Guernsey, and
-landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that month.
-
-On its return from the West Indies, the regiment enlisted a number
-of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it received drafts of boys, or lads,
-from other corps; it was designated a boy regiment, and sent to the
-Cape of Good Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be
-gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become better adapted for
-service in the East Indies, than recruits sent direct from Europe to
-India.
-
-[Sidenote: 1800]
-
-In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked for the Cape of
-Good Hope, where it arrived in May and June following. The companies
-on board of one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in
-consequence of their crowded state: the crew was composed of Lascars,
-among whom much disease prevailed; the infection was communicated
-to the soldiers, and the men of the TWENTY-SECOND suffered in their
-health; sixty soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital,
-before the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape in
-a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working the vessel
-during the voyage, and the masts and rigging had been damaged during
-a gale of wind.
-
-[Sidenote: 1801]
-
-The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg, and afterwards
-encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land projecting from the east side
-of Table Mountain. The sick men received every attention which could
-be procured by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the Cape,
-and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters, which were
-removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801, and again encamped at
-Wynberg in March. In May the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in
-September joined the camp at Rondebosch.
-
-The lads having become much improved in size and strength, the light
-infantry company joined the flank battalion; and the grenadiers were
-detached to the interior, and stationed at Graaff Reinett.
-
-[Sidenote: 1802]
-
-Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was removed to
-Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett.
-
-The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed to India, it
-was joined by a number of volunteers from corps serving at the Cape
-of Good Hope, and embarked from thence in September, October, and
-November, when it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and
-fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for duty.
-
-[Sidenote: 1803]
-
-In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment landed at Fort
-William, Calcutta, where the other companies had previously arrived.
-
-At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao Scindia and
-Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers of the Peishwa, and were
-desolating the Mahratta states with war; and these two chiefs,
-with the Rajah of Berar, formed a confederacy against the British
-and their allies. Under these circumstances the flank companies
-of the regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the field
-force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for the attack of
-the province of Cuttack. On entering that province, the troops had
-to overcome numerous difficulties from the nature of the country,
-the season of the year, and the resistance of the enemy, which they
-surmounted with great gallantry.
-
-On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment highly distinguished themselves at the capture of the fort
-of _Barrabatta_ by storm, when they led the assault, and took several
-of the enemy's colours. They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and
-eight soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the TWENTY-SECOND,
-with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth Native Infantry,
-were publicly displayed at Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort
-William, with an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken.
-
-[Sidenote: 1804]
-
-The flank companies of the regiment remained in the field, and the
-splendid successes of the British arms appeared likely to bring about
-a speedy termination of the war; but hostilities were protracted
-by the defection of the Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of
-the TWENTY-SECOND joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two men
-killed and three wounded at the capture of _Deeg_, in December, and
-were engaged in the attempt to bring the refractory Rajah Sing to
-submission by the siege of the strong fortress of Bhurtpore.
-
-[Sidenote: 1805]
-
-In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its march from Fort
-William, for the Upper provinces, and in January, 1805, it halted and
-encamped at Benares; but resumed its march in February, and proceeded
-to Cawnpore.
-
-The siege of _Bhurtpore_ was carried on, and the flank companies
-were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to capture that place
-by storm on the 9th of January, when they had eleven men killed
-and twenty-four wounded. They were also engaged in the desperate
-attempt to capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when
-they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains Lindsay and
-McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman, and Caswell, and thirty-one
-non-commissioned officers and soldiers, wounded. At the third
-unsuccessful attack, on the 21st of February, they had two serjeants
-and three soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded.
-
-Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn hope on each
-occasion, and his gallant conduct was rewarded with the commission
-of ensign in the Sixty-fifth regiment.
-
-Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace with the
-British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore, and the surviving officers
-and soldiers of the flank companies joined the regiment at Cawnpore,
-in June.
-
-Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority, and Scindia
-evinced a disposition to renew hostilities. These events occasioned
-the regiment to quit Cawnpore, in October, to pursue the army of
-Holkar, who was driven from place to place, until the British troops
-arrived at the banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted,
-and a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia also
-concluded a second treaty, and the British power and influence in
-India were thus augmented and consolidated.
-
-[Sidenote: 1806]
-
-From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched to Delhi, where
-it arrived in February, 1806, and in March it was removed to Muttra,
-where it received the thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the
-Governor-General in Council, for its conduct during the war.
-
-On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in 1806, was
-succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by Lieut.-General Sir
-James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth foot.
-
-[Sidenote: 1807]
-
-Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded to Berhampore,
-where it arrived on the 7th of August.
-
-[Sidenote: 1809]
-
-Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed colonel of
-the regiment on the 18th of September, 1809, from the Fifty-fourth
-foot, in succession to Sir James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the
-Seventy-eighth Highlanders.
-
-[Sidenote: 1810]
-
-The regiment remained at Berhampore until August, 1810, when it
-embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort William, in order to form
-part of the expedition against the _Mauritius_, under Major-General
-the Honorable J. Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of
-Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition, and on the
-following day the troops advanced towards the capital; being exposed
-to severe heat, and unable to procure water, the soldiers became
-exhausted, and arriving at the powder-mills, five miles from Port
-Louis, they halted near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of
-December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in force, and some
-sharp fighting occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND took part and had
-several men wounded. The French were driven from their ground, and
-they fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front of the
-position occupied by the French. Being unable to withstand the valour
-and discipline of the invading army, the governor, General de Caen,
-surrendered the island to the British arms.
-
-[Sidenote: 1811]
-
-After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was stationed a
-short time at that island, and in January it sent a detachment
-of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave, in the Island of
-Madagascar. In March and April the regiment was removed to the island
-of Bourbon, where it was joined by the survivors of the detachment
-from Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers and
-twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by the enemy, and
-re-captured by the British ships of war.
-
-[Sidenote: 1812]
-
-[Sidenote: 1813]
-
-In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius; but again
-proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was removed to the Mauritius a
-second time in May, 1813.
-
-[Sidenote: 1814]
-
-[Sidenote: 1815]
-
-A number of men having volunteered from the militia to the
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was
-pleased to approve of a _second battalion_ being formed, and it was
-placed on the establishment of the army on the 10th of February,
-1814. The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by the
-abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration of the Bourbon
-dynasty to the throne of France, the second battalion was disbanded
-at Chester, on the 24th of October, transferring the men fit for duty
-to the first battalion, which they joined at the Mauritius, in April,
-1815, in so good a state, as to be specially noticed in general
-orders, and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party, received the
-thanks of the governor.
-
-On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first battalion
-of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first battalion of the
-Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment, were formed into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June
-embarked from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The troops
-arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August; re-embarked on
-the 23rd of September, and landed at the Mauritius on the 14th of
-November, 1815. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment,
-while on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between Ceylon
-and the opposite continent. The conduct of the flank companies, while
-in India, was highly commended in general orders issued before they
-embarked from Fort William,--on their return to the Mauritius.
-
-While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder of the
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment was placed under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven
-miles from Port Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing
-disease at the Mauritius. There being but a small force left on
-the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency by disease,
-a meditated insurrection had nearly attained an outbreak, but for
-timely information.
-
-[Sidenote: 1819]
-
-The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius, under the
-command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July, 1819, when it embarked
-for England. Previous to quitting the island it was inspected by
-Major-General Ralph Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his
-admiration of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while
-serving under his command.
-
-Though the TWENTY-SECOND had participated in the capture of the
-Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the island presented a large
-and handsome gold snuff-box to the regiment on its embarkation for
-England, bearing this inscription, "_Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment
-de S. M.--Souvenir des Habitans de l'île Maurice_; 1819;" thus
-testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly and
-soldierlike conduct of the corps during its service of nine years in
-the colony.
-
-After landing at Gosport, in November and December, the regiment
-marched to Northampton, under the orders of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough,
-K.C.B.
-
-[Sidenote: 1821]
-
-In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to Liverpool, where
-it embarked on the 9th of October, for Ireland. Having landed at
-Dublin on the 10th of October, the regiment marched to Buttevant,
-with detachments at Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and
-Ballyclough.
-
-Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in consequence of the
-riotous and violent proceedings of the misguided peasantry at this
-part of the country, and the disposition evinced to violate the law.
-
-[Sidenote: 1822]
-
-On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three thousand men
-assembled with such arms as they could procure, for an attack on
-Newmarket; and they were repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men
-of the regiment, under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel
-Green, who received the expression of the approbation of His Royal
-Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, and were presented
-with a silver cup, by the noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of
-the town and vicinity of Newmarket,--"In testimony of the high sense
-entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and defeating an
-armed body of three thousand insurgents, with thirty men."
-
-A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the regiment performed
-many marches, and much extra duty, in consequence of the disturbed
-state of the country.
-
-[Sidenote: 1823]
-
-[Sidenote: 1824]
-
-The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at Buttevant during
-the year 1823, and the first nine months of 1824; and the state
-of the regiment was repeatedly commended in orders by the General
-Officers who made the half-yearly inspections.
-
-[Sidenote: 1826]
-
-In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it was subsequently
-stationed in Galway, and in the summer of 1826 it was divided into
-six service and four depôt companies, in order that the former might
-proceed on foreign service.
-
-The service companies embarked from Cork in November and December,
-in three divisions, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major
-James Steuart, and Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division
-arrived at the island of Jamaica in February, 1827.
-
-[Sidenote: 1827]
-
-The service companies suffered severely from the effects of the
-climate of Jamaica; in September and October, 1827, they lost three
-officers, seventeen serjeants, and one hundred and twenty men, from
-fever; the total loss during the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P.
-C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant
-Edward Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant
-William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two non-commissioned
-officers and soldiers.
-
-[Sidenote: 1828]
-
-[Sidenote: 1829]
-
-In the following year the losses were much less numerous; and in
-April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar arrived and assumed the
-command. In June of the same year, the regiment received the thanks
-of the civil authorities for the prompt assistance rendered in
-extinguishing an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town.
-
-[Sidenote: 1830]
-
-On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked from Cork for
-South Britain, where they were stationed until the summer of 1836,
-when they embarked from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin.
-
-[Sidenote: 1831]
-
-The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable insurrection
-among the slaves in Jamaica in the winter of 1831-2; the two flank
-companies were encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the
-following winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in Jamaica,
-in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks of the custos and
-magistrates were awarded to the corps for its good conduct.[8]
-
-[Sidenote: 1837]
-
-The service companies performed duty at the island of Jamaica until
-the beginning of 1837, when they commenced embarking for Europe, and
-landed at Cork in March and April; they were afterwards joined by the
-depôt companies.
-
-[Sidenote: 1838]
-
-[Sidenote: 1839]
-
-[Sidenote: 1840]
-
-The regiment remained in Ireland during the years 1838 and 1839;
-and embarking from Dublin on the 19th of December, 1840, landed at
-Liverpool on the 21st of that month.
-
-[Sidenote: 1841]
-
-The TWENTY-SECOND regiment, having been selected to proceed to
-India, embarked from Gravesend in January, 1841, and landed at
-Bombay in May following. It afterwards proceeded to Poonah, where an
-encampment was formed, and the regiment was stationed there during
-the remainder of the year.
-
-[Sidenote: 1842]
-
-In the following year the regiment quitted the camp at Poonah by
-divisions, and proceeding to the country of Scinde, was encamped
-some time near Kurrachee. The regiment was encamped in two separate
-divisions at Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its
-ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its prevalence
-a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole, consisting of two
-companies, was ordered to proceed by the Indus, in the month of
-April, 1842, to Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal
-of the British force from Beloochistan.
-
-The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the British in 1839,
-and application was made to the Ameers, who governed the country,
-for a portion of land on the banks of the river. This they agreed to
-give; but at the same time meditated the destruction of the British
-power in the country by treachery. The TWENTY-SECOND quitted the camp
-at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the country.
-
-[Sidenote: 1843]
-
-The regiment formed part of the force assembled under Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in the destruction of the fort
-of _Emaum Ghur_, in the desert, on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843.
-
-Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled "_The Conquest
-of Scinde_," has given, with his characteristic eloquence, the
-following spirited description of the march to _Emaum Ghur_, a march
-which His Grace the Duke of Wellington described in the House of
-Lords, "_as one of the most curious military feats he had ever known
-to be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life.
-Sir Charles Napier_ (added His Grace) _moved his troops through
-the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns transported
-under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and in a manner the most
-extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat of the enemy which rendered
-it impossible for them ever to regain their positions_."
-
-"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness through which
-they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were passing. The sand-hills stretched
-north and south for hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at
-top, and most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore
-after a placid tide. Varying in their heights, their breadth and
-steepness, they presented one uniform surface, but while some were
-only a mile broad, others were more than ten miles across; some
-were of gentle slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the
-howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The sand was mingled with
-shells, and ran in great streams resembling numerous rivers, skirted
-on each side by parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle,
-yet thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and wild boar, and
-the prints of small deer's footsteps, were sometimes seen at first,
-but they soon disappeared, and then the solitude of the waste was
-unbroken.
-
-"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this gloomy region,
-living from hand to mouth, uncertain each morning if water could be
-found in the evening; and many times it was not found. They were not
-even sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and untiring
-strength, they continued their dreary dangerous way. The camels found
-very little food, and got weak, but the stout infantry helped to
-drag the heavy howitzers up the sandy steeps; and all the troops,
-despising the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked with a
-power and will that overcame every obstacle. On the eighth day they
-reached _Emaum Ghur_, eager to strike and storm, and then was seen
-how truly laid down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in
-war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan, with a strong
-fortress well provided, and having a garrison six times as numerous
-as the band coming to assail him, had fled with his treasure two days
-before; taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by tracks
-with which his people were well acquainted, leaving all his stores of
-grain and powder behind."
-
-As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in which the
-Beloochees might be able to resist British supremacy, Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier determined upon destroying the fortress. It was
-a place of great strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks,
-into which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing down, so
-that recourse was had to mining. The place was full of gunpowder and
-grain, and the former was employed in blowing up the fortress, which
-was effected on the 15th of January.
-
-After this difficult and harassing service, the troops returned
-triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr, where
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited his whole army. It is to be
-observed that the march was performed without the loss of a man, or
-without even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed,
-and their plan of campaign frustrated.
-
-A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the 14th of February:
-directions were sent to the British political resident, Major Outram,
-by the Ameers, to quit _Hyderabad_, the capital, and before this was
-complied with, _eight thousand_ Beloochees, commanded by several
-Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into the enclosure
-of the British residency. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment, mustering _one hundred_ men, under Captain T. S. Conway,
-Lieutenant F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only
-force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded by a
-wall from four to five feet high. The gallant officers and soldiers
-of this company kept the eight thousand Scindian troops, with six
-pieces of artillery, at bay nearly four hours; and when their
-ammunition was nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with
-Major Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels, joined the
-troops under Major-General Sir Charles Napier, at Hala. The light
-company had two men killed and four wounded on this occasion.
-
-The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled a numerous
-force to destroy the few British troops in the country. Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, trusting to the valour of the troops under
-his orders, advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February,
-_twenty-two thousand_ Scindian troops were discovered in position
-behind the bank of a river at _Meeanee_. The British, mustering _two
-thousand eight hundred_ men, advanced in _echelon_ of regiments to
-attack their numerous opponents, and the TWENTY-SECOND, commanded by
-Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead the attack. A
-numerous body of Beloochees discharged their matchlocks and pistols
-at the TWENTY-SECOND, and then rushed forward sword in hand to close
-upon the British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went down
-under the superior power of the musket and bayonet.
-
-After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated, and, on the
-day following the victory, six of the Ameers delivered their swords
-to the British General upon the field of battle. The Beloochees
-lost five thousand men, and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure
-were taken, together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of
-February, the British colours waved in triumph over the fortress of
-_Hyderabad_.
-
-In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "_The Conquest of
-Scinde_," is given the following spirited and picturesque description
-of the battle of MEEANEE:--
-
-"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and covered by the
-village of Kattree, which was filled with men; that flank offered no
-weak point. But in the Shikargah on their left the General instantly
-detected a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was covered
-by a wall, having only one opening, not very wide, through which it
-was evident the Beloochees meant to pour out on the flank and rear
-of the advancing British line. The General rode near this wall, and
-found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer, and marked it
-had no loop-holes for the enemy to shoot through; he rode into the
-opening under a play of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall,
-saw there was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over
-the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the aid of heroism.
-Taking a company of the TWENTY-SECOND, he thrust them at once into
-the opening, telling their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block
-up that entrance; to die there, if it must be,--never to give way!
-And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he died there, but
-the opening was defended. The great disparity of numbers was thus
-abated, and the action of six thousand men paralysed by the more
-skilful action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to
-numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won Blenheim for the
-Duke of Marlborough.
-
-[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
-
-FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.
-
-_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._]
-
-"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments, approached the
-enemy's front. The British right passed securely under the wall of
-the Shikargah, cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling sound
-of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the dead level of the plain was
-swept by the Beloochee cannon and matchlocks, which were answered
-from time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for
-rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to close with their
-unseen foes. When the TWENTY-SECOND had got within a hundred yards
-of the high sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at
-the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees could be just
-seen, bending with fiery glances over the levelled matchlocks, and
-the voice of the General, shrill and clear, was heard along the line,
-commanding the charge.
-
-"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were run forward into
-position, the infantry closed upon the Fulaillee with a run, and
-rushed up the sloping bank. The Beloochees, having their matchlocks
-laid ready in rest along the summit, waited until the assailants
-were within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the rapid
-pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope on the inside,
-deceived their aim, and the execution was not great; the next moment
-the TWENTY-SECOND were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear
-down all before them, but they staggered back in amazement at the
-forest of swords waving in their front! Thick as standing corn,
-and gorgeous as a field of flowers, stood the Beloochees in their
-many-coloured garments and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed
-of the Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered the
-plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their large dark shields,
-they shook their sharp swords, beaming in the sun, their shouts
-rolled like a peal of thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed
-forwards, and full against the front of the TWENTY-SECOND dashed with
-demoniac strength and ferocity. But with shouts as loud, and shrieks
-as wild and fierce as theirs, and hearts as big, and arms as strong,
-the Irish soldiers met them with that queen of weapons the musket,
-and sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood."
-
-The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General Sir Charles
-Napier testify the part borne by the TWENTY-SECOND in the victory of
-MEEANEE:--
-
-"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely wounded as with the
-high courage of a soldier he led his regiment (TWENTY-SECOND) up
-the desperate bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains Tucker
-and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and Phayre, were all wounded, while
-gloriously animating their men to sustain the shock of numbers."
-
-"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant Wood, all fell
-honorably, urging on the assault with unmitigated valour.
-
-"Major Poole, of the TWENTY-SECOND, and Captain Jackson of the
-Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded to the command of those
-regiments, proved themselves worthy of their dangerous posts.
-
-"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, Lieutenant McMurdo, of
-the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, had his horse killed, and, while on foot
-leading some soldiers in a desperate dash down the enemy's side of
-the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has greatly assisted me by his
-activity and zeal during the whole of our operations.
-
-"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity which took place
-between our soldiers and their opponents, too numerous for detail in
-this despatch, yet well meriting a record."
-
-In the NOTIFICATION of the Right Honorable Lord Ellenborough, the
-Governor-General of India, it was directed,
-
-"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad, shall be sent
-to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal column, whereon shall
-be inscribed in the English, and two native languages, the names
-of Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several
-officers mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and likewise
-the names of the several officers, non-commissioned officers, and
-privates mentioned in the reports, that thus the names may be for
-ever recorded of those who, at MEEANEE, obtained for themselves that
-glory in the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier."
-
-Major Poole, commanding the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, in consequence
-of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather having been severely wounded,
-stated in his report, respecting the soldiers of the regiment
-under his command, who had distinguished themselves in the battle
-of Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they feel
-difficulty in making selections, where the conduct of every man of
-their companies was so satisfactory. In so general a field of action
-and persevering exertion, I equally feel at a loss where to draw a
-distinction; but it may be proper to mention the names of Private
-James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a standard whilst we
-were actively engaged with the enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who
-shot, bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee Mahomed Khan,
-who was mounted, and directing the enemy in the hottest part of the
-engagement."
-
-The loss of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment at the battle of Meeanee
-was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,[9] one serjeant, and twenty-two rank
-and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, Captain T. S.
-Conway, Lieutenants W. M. G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R.
-Pennefather and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and fifty
-privates wounded.
-
-The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs who continued
-to resist assembled an army, which was commanded by Meer Shere
-Mahomed. The British advanced from _Hyderabad_ at daybreak on the
-morning of the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock
-twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order of battle
-behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately made for commencing
-the action, and the TWENTY-SECOND regiment led the attack in gallant
-style. Major John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D.
-George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic example of these
-officers, the TWENTY-SECOND advanced steadily against the enemy's
-left, exposed to a heavy fire of matchlocks, without returning a
-shot, until they arrived within forty paces of the entrenchment,
-when they stormed the position occupied by the Beloochees with that
-determined bravery which has ever distinguished British soldiers.
-Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the rampart, seized one of
-the enemy's standards, and was severely wounded while in the act of
-waving it, and cheering on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized
-another standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant
-example of their officers, displayed that heroism which adorns the
-British military character. Privates J. Doherty, C. Lynar, E. Jobin,
-J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G. Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot
-the defenders, and then captured fourteen standards, and made five
-prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury also captured
-standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot one of the Scindians, and
-took from him a silver-knobbed standard. The Beloochee infantry and
-artillery fought well, but were unable, although greatly superior in
-numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined soldiers.
-
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public despatch, "The
-battle was decided by the troop of Horse Artillery, and Her Majesty's
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment.
-
-"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant
-Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too highly; and regret to say,
-he has received a sabre wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut
-down in single combat during the day.
-
-"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and the officers,
-non-commissioned officers, and privates under their command, I have
-to return my thanks for their valiant bearing in the action."
-
-The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven pieces of cannon
-were taken in position on the nullah, together with seventeen
-standards. The Beloochee force was completely defeated, and their
-commander, Meer Shere Mahomed, fled to the desert.[10] Among the
-killed was the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee.
-Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed on this
-occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J. Coote, H. A. G. Evans,
-and John Brennan, Ensign Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one
-drummer, four corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates
-wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment mustered only five
-hundred and sixty-two rank and file; the remainder being sick and
-convalescent, having been left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde.
-
-As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories, Her Majesty,
-on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint Major-General Sir
-Charles James Napier a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable
-Military Order of the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,[11]
-Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George, and
-Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions of the Bath, and their
-brevet rank was dated from the above period.
-
-Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command that a medal
-should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and
-Soldiers engaged in the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad.
-
-On the 18th of August, 1843, the TWENTY-SECOND received the Royal
-authority to bear upon the regimental or second colour, and on
-the appointments, the word "SCINDE," in commemoration of its
-distinguished gallantry in the campaign against the Ameers of that
-country, during the early part of the year 1843.
-
-Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred increased honor on
-the TWENTY-SECOND, by authorising the corps to bear on the regimental
-colour and appointments, in addition to the word "SCINDE," the words
-"MEEANEE" and "HYDERABAD," in commemoration of the distinguished
-gallantry displayed in the general engagements fought at those places
-respectively, on the 17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843.
-
-On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament were voted to
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B., and to the troops under his
-command, "_for the eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by
-him in the recent military operations in_ SCINDE, _particularly in
-the two decisive battles of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD;" to the several
-officers serving under Sir Charles Napier, "_for their unwearied zeal
-and conspicuous gallantry_;" and to the troops, "_for their brave and
-meritorious conduct_."
-
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the regiments at
-Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them for their gallantry in
-this campaign, addressed the soldiers as follows:--
-
-"Soldiers! the Battle of _Meeanee_ is among those of which history
-will speak as proving the superiority of _discipline_ over numbers;
-and it is well, Soldiers! that we should dwell upon these things;
-that we may understand how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed.
-
-"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would not have won the
-victories of _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_! Valour is like the _Strength_
-of a man, Discipline is like his _Mind_, that directs his strength
-to effective exertion. If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one
-strikes at random, while the other boxes with science, planting every
-blow home, we know how the fight must be soon decided. So it is with
-two armies,--the one disciplined, the other without discipline. The
-General of the disciplined Army directs his columns upon that part of
-the enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as the mind
-of the boxer directs his blow against the opening offered by his
-unskilful enemy. But this is not all,--obedience to orders (which
-is discipline) enables us to bring up all the necessary provisions
-of war to the day and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at
-hand to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and the
-body are thrown forward to support and give vigour to the blow of
-the pugilist. But not only is valour useless without discipline,
-but it is even dangerous; for without discipline the rashly brave
-would run heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek
-'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus the Army would be
-scattered: but when an Army is disciplined, the ponderous charges
-of Cavalry, the steady tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing
-to charge with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery
-pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously to strike
-and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers, are Medals won, more by
-discipline than by any extraordinary efforts of individual courage.
-To reward this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man who
-wears this honoured badge is known to the world as one who, in the
-midst of the noise, the danger, and confusion of battle, had obeyed
-orders, and performed the three great duties of a Soldier--first, not
-to fire without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so as
-to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to keep his rank and
-dress upon his colours. The Medal tells the world that he has bravely
-done these things, and no man can walk with one of these Medals
-on his breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid
-Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be low caste, but the
-Soldier, who bears on his breast a medal won in battle, is above all
-the castes in the world. The pleasure of giving you these Medals,
-Soldiers of the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to
-me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing the
-reward which you honorably earned, and my satisfaction is increased
-by the presence of so large a body of Europeans, for it affords me
-an opportunity of saying to my countrymen that they will find these
-swarthy warriors of the East staunch and true in action as they were
-at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed the example set them by
-the glorious TWENTY-SECOND regiment. They will fight to the last
-drop of their blood, and stand or fall by the side of their European
-comrades. If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times,
-War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted to lead an
-Army into the field, I should go into action with perfect confidence
-in the courage of the Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their
-gallantry, not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and from
-my own knowledge, of their daring courage.
-
-"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner to the Officers
-now before me, and in justice to them say, that their conduct, and
-the conduct of all the British Officers in these two battles, was
-very noble. For several hours the two lines were fighting close to
-each other, and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw
-the British Officers display their worthiness as Military leaders,
-and with unflinching intrepidity animating their Soldiers to battle!
-To them, therefore, I will now first distribute these honorable
-decorations."
-
-The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the line of officers
-of several regiments, and who had not before received their medals,
-his Excellency presented each with the Medal,--the bands playing "God
-save the Queen."
-
-On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston, of the 25th
-N. I., the General observed,--"But for you, Marston, I probably
-should not have had this pleasure;" alluding to this Officer having
-intrepidly thrown himself in front of his General when attacked by a
-Beloochee Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach the
-General.
-
-On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and proceeded to
-Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters embarked on the
-27th of April, and sailed to Bombay. Previously to the embarkation
-of the regiment for Bombay, the following order was issued by
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:--
-
- "_27th April, 1843._
-
- "TWENTY-SECOND Regiment!
-
- "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and you also know how much
- I dislike doing so. But nothing shall stand in the way of your
- health and well-being, that I have the power to remove. Cut up by
- Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may again join
- us, and add to the Laurels with which you are already decorated.
-
- "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_,
- _Governor_."
-
-The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd of May, was
-distinguished by high marks of honor, by command of the Governor, on
-which occasion the accompanying order was issued:--
-
- "_Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843._
-
- "GARRISON ORDERS.
-
- "By the Honorable the Governor.--The Head-Quarters of Her Majesty's
- TWENTY-SECOND Regiment of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be
- disembarked to-morrow morning at sunrise.
-
- "On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
- Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of honor to this
- distinguished Corps, will himself receive it at the Apollo Pier.
-
- "On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute is to be
- fired from the Saluting Battery.
-
- "The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn up in Review
- Order, in a convenient position, and will salute Her Majesty's
- TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as it passes on its way to Fort George
- Barracks.
-
- "His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military Officers at
- the Presidency who may not be sick, or engaged on other duty.
-
- "The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to carry out the above
- order.
-
- "BRUCE SETON, _Major_,
- _Town Major_."
-
-The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration of the
-gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a public banquet to the
-Officers of the corps; and the inhabitants of Bombay, including the
-Civil Authorities, raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to
-the benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and orphans, by
-the Campaign in Scinde.
-
-The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, and proceeded
-from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on the 23rd of May. The right
-wing and head-quarters arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of
-June.
-
-General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th of October, 1843,
-and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Major-General Sir
-Charles James Napier, K.C.B.
-
-[Sidenote: 1844]
-
-On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment marched from
-Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the 19th the whole moved together
-for Field Service in the Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost
-two officers, and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by
-cholera.
-
-A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the north pettah
-under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the 27th of November; on
-the 28th, 29th, and 30th of November the regiment, under the command
-of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment
-of _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_, and on the 1st of December was at
-the capture of those forts, the latter of which was taken by the
-regiment. During these operations the TWENTY-SECOND formed part of
-the third brigade of the force employed under Major-General Delamotte.
-
-On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment marched, and joined
-the first brigade on service in the Sawunt-Warree district; the other
-wing remained near Kolapore.
-
-On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment arrived at
-Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the first brigade of the Field
-Force in the Sawunt-Warree country, and was employed in investing
-the forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the
-operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades in the
-densely wooded country between Susseedroog and the Forts.
-
-[Sidenote: 1845]
-
-The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; on the 17th of
-January, 1845, part of the wing descended the Elephant rock with
-other troops, and took the village of Seevapore, in the Concan, close
-under Fort Monuhurr, where one man was killed and seven wounded. The
-whole of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or heights
-above, and part in the Concan close under the forts, investing them
-from the 17th to the 26th of January, during which period the forts
-were constantly shelled by the British artillery, the enemy from the
-forts firing their great guns and musketry.
-
-On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated the forts
-unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, leaving the forts in
-the possession of the Anglo-Indian army.
-
-The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th of February,
-escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. The regiment was
-employed in doing duty over about six hundred prisoners until its
-recall to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April,
-and arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845.
-
-A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank and file,
-under the command of Captain Souter, marched from Poonah for Bombay
-on the 25th of December, 1845.
-
-[Sidenote: 1846]
-
-The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command of
-Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting of five
-companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay on the 15th of August, 1846,
-and joined the wing of the TWENTY-SECOND at that station. The march
-was performed in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain
-consequently falling nearly the whole of the way.
-
-The regiment remained together at Bombay, having six companies
-at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until the 14th of November,
-1846, when the head-quarters, with five of the companies which were
-stationed at Colaba, were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever
-of a malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every soldier
-at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in less than two months;
-the casualties were very numerous.
-
-[Sidenote: 1847]
-
-[Sidenote: 1848]
-
-The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched from Bombay
-on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived at Poonah on the 21st of
-January. During the year 1848 the regiment continued to be stationed
-at Poonah.
-
-[Sidenote: 1849]
-
-On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded to Bombay, and
-was subsequently stationed at Colaba. The left wing, consisting of
-four companies, embarked for Kurrachee on the 24th of January.
-
-In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has been extended, the
-regiment remained at Colaba, and consisted of fifty-three serjeants,
-nineteen drummers, and 1042 rank and file, under the command of
-Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau
-being in command of the Poonah brigade.
-
-
-1849.
-
-
-[Illustration: BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE,
-BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17^{TH} FEBRUARY 1843.
-
-SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF MEEANEE AND
-HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843.
-
-_For Cannon's Military Records._
-
-_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._]
-
-
- _Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of_
- MEEANEE, _on the 17th of February, 1843._
-
-The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was taken at
-the Battle of _Meeanee_, on the 17th of February, 1843, by Private
-James O'Neill of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as narrated at page 35
-of the Historical Record. The Standard is triangular; the longest
-side is about seven feet in length, and the other sides measure each
-about five feet. The Staff is nine feet in length.
-
-The Standards captured at the Battle of _Hyderabad_, on the 24th of
-March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do not afford a
-just idea of the Army which they may be supposed to have led on. No
-person, on viewing these Trophies, would suppose the Beloochee Army,
-to which they belonged, to have been composed of men so gallant and
-so formidable; so well armed, and so expert in the use of their arms,
-as the Scindian troops proved themselves in these battles.
-
-
- _Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of the
- Victories of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD, _and conferred on the
- Officers and Men engaged in those Battles._
-
-On the obverse; the bust of HER MAJESTY, with the inscription
-"VICTORIA REGINA."
-
-On the reverse; the words "MEEANEE," "HYDERABAD," "1843," enclosed
-within branches of Laurel, and surmounted by the Imperial Crown.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES:
-
-[6] Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was
-restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It
-was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to
-Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763.
-
-[7] The grenadier company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, which had
-been incorporated with the "_Louisburg Grenadiers_," formed part of
-the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights of Abraham
-on the 13th of September, 1759.
-
-[8] When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented
-the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in reference
-to the conduct of the regiment,--"I had myself the means of
-knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, whilst your
-head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally popular,
-and their departure generally regretted. During the few pleasant days
-I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the flank companies of
-the TWENTY-SECOND regiment formed a part, I remember upon remarking
-to the Major-General there commanding, the perfect good conduct of
-all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew better men.'"
-
-[9] Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by
-the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was promoted
-Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was appointed ensign
-in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, the commissions being dated 18th
-February, 1843, the day following the battle of Meeanee.
-
-[10] The following interesting circumstance is recorded by
-Major-General Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde,
-respecting the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere
-Mahomed:--
-
-"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the
-Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat,
-saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of
-water; they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins
-and struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that
-moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the TWENTY-SECOND
-came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the
-generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their
-own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then they
-all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the TWENTY-SECOND men's muskets for
-them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging them to hold
-out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, but soon fell.
-It was then discovered that these noble fellows were all wounded,
-some deeply, but thinking there was to be another fight, they had
-concealed their hurts, and forced nature to sustain the loss of
-blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, the long marches, and the
-sandy desert, that their last moments might be given to their country
-on another field of battle!"
-
- _Names of men of the_ TWENTY-SECOND _regiment who concealed their
- wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with their
- regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand._
-
-Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, Henry Lines,
-Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, James Mulvey, and
-Silvester Day.
-
-[11] Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp to
-the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having been
-deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing as
-a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of
-Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained.
-
-Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, with
-Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and becoming
-supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth regiment from India
-in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, 1848, Colonel Pennefather
-was appointed to serve on the Staff of the army in Ireland.
-
-
-
-
-SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
-
-OF
-
-THE TWENTY-SECOND,
-
-OR
-
-THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
-
-
-HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, K.G.
-
-_Appointed 16th March, 1689._
-
-LORD HENRY HOWARD, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, afterwards Duke of
-Norfolk, was summoned to parliament in 1678, by the title of Lord
-Mowbray: and on the death of Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship
-was nominated governor and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden
-of the forest of Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and
-Surrey. On the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the
-dignity of DUKE OF NORFOLK, and of Earl Marshal of England; and in
-May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble order of the
-Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of the DUKE OF MONMOUTH,
-the DUKE OF NORFOLK took great interest in raising a regiment of
-foot for the service of King James II., now the twelfth regiment of
-foot, of which he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve
-of the measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to the
-protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the King gave the
-DUKE OF NORFOLK the sword of state to carry with him to the Popish
-chapel, which he carried as far as the door and then stopped, not
-being willing to enter the chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your
-father would have gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,--"Your
-Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so
-far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and joined in the invitation
-to the PRINCE OF ORANGE. When the Prince landed, the DUKE OF NORFOLK
-was in London, and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for
-a free parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk,
-declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and some of the
-neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. On the elevation
-of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his Graced was sworn a member
-of the privy council; and afterwards used his interest and influence
-in raising a corps of infantry, now the TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, of
-which he was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his
-commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April 1701.
-
-
-SIR HENRY BELLASIS, KT.
-
-_Appointed 28th September, 1689._
-
-SIR HENRY BELLASIS was educated in strict principles of loyalty and
-attachment to monarchical government, and when a youth he suffered
-in the royal cause during the usurpation of Cromwell. Soon after the
-restoration he was nominated captain of an independent company in
-garrison at Hull, of which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse)
-was appointed governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of
-the Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of 1674, Sir
-Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and pikemen for the
-service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and was engaged
-at the siege of Grave in the autumn of that year. He also served
-at the siege of Maestricht in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel
-in 1677; and in the following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley
-in the command of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the
-battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and ability,
-vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the Prince of
-Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was wounded. During
-the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, in 1685, he accompanied
-his regiment to England; and in 1687 circumstances occurred which
-occasioned him to withdraw from the Dutch service; but he preserved
-his attachment to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of
-Orange. In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy of
-the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, with which corps he served in Ireland
-under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He served as brigadier-general
-under King William in 1690; was at the battle of the Boyne; and at
-the siege of Limerick, where he again distinguished himself. In 1691
-he acquired new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed
-bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the reduction
-of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, and took
-possession of the town on the 26th of July, with his own and two
-other regiments of foot. The rank of major-general was conferred
-on this distinguished officer in April, 1692, and he commanded a
-brigade under King William in Flanders, in the autumn of that year.
-He acquired additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693;
-also in the command of a brigade under King William during the
-following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded him
-with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious conduct procured him
-the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, by whom he was employed
-on important services. He commanded the camp on the Bruges canal,
-in May, 1695; and a division of the covering army was placed under
-his orders during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign
-he was appointed president of the general court-martial which tried
-the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the enemy, and
-sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. He continued to serve
-in the Netherlands until the peace of Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained
-the colonelcy of the Queen Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in
-exchange with Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the
-British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been charged
-with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, he was tried by
-a court-martial and dismissed the service. His reputation was thus
-unfortunately tarnished; but his crime does not appear to have been
-considered of a heinous nature, as he was subsequently elected a
-member of parliament for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen
-Anne, in 1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several
-particulars respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in
-June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He died on the 14th
-of December, 1717.
-
-
-WILLIAM SELWYN.
-
-_Appointed 28th June, 1701._
-
-WILLIAM SELWYN served in the army of the United Provinces of the
-Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., and afterwards held a
-commission under the British crown. In 1688 he was nominated captain
-and lieut.-colonel in the second foot guards, with which corps he
-served in Flanders, and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy
-of the second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke.
-He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen on
-the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under the eye of
-his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, in the summer
-of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general during
-the siege. He subsequently commanded a brigade of infantry in the
-Netherlands, under King William III., who nominated him governor of
-the island of Jamaica. He exchanged to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in
-1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on the 10th June,
-1702. He died in June, 1702.
-
-
-THOMAS HANDASYD.
-
-_Appointed 20th June, 1702._
-
-After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, THOMAS
-HANDASYD was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment, with which corps he proceeded to the island of Jamaica;
-and in June, 1702, Queen Anne promoted him to the colonelcy of the
-regiment. He served in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of
-brigadier-general in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In
-1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in
-favour of his non.
-
-
-ROGER HANDASYD.
-
-_Appointed 3rd April, 1712._
-
-This Officer served many years in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, and was
-promoted by Queen Anne to the lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which
-he commanded some time at the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his
-father in the colonelcy of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the
-sixteenth foot in 1730,--promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in
-1735,--to that of major-general in 1739,--and to lieut.-general in
-1743. He died in 1763.
-
-
-WILLIAM BARRELL.
-
-_Appointed 25th August, 1730._
-
-This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; he
-obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished conduct
-in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the brevet rank of
-colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 he was promoted to
-the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; in 1727 he was appointed
-brigadier-general; in 1730 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment, and in 1734 to the King's Own. In the following year
-he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of
-lieut.-general; and he was also appointed governor of Pendennis
-Castle. He died on the 9th of August, 1749.
-
-
-THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR.
-
-_Appointed 30th October, 1734._
-
-THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR entered the army in the reign of Queen
-Anne, and served under the celebrated JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. He
-was several years an officer in the third foot guards, in which
-corps he rose to the commission of major, with the rank of colonel,
-and in 1734 King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment, from which he was removed, in 1737, to the
-first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted to the rank of
-brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of major-general; and to that of
-lieut.-general in 1745, at which time he was performing the duty of
-quartermaster-general in the Netherlands, to the army commanded by
-His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year
-he commanded an expedition which was originally designed for the
-attack of the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded,
-and afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and the
-peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, achieved.
-He was subsequently employed on an embassy to the courts of Vienna
-and Turin.[12] On the decease of his brother, in 1750, he became
-entitled to the dignity of Lord Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he
-preferred a seat in the House of Commons, of which he had been many
-years a member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 he
-was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, in November,
-1762.
-
-
-JOHN MOYLE.
-
-_Appointed 27th June, 1737._
-
-JOHN MOYLE entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and served
-with reputation under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough; he
-rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot,
-and in 1708 was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army. At the
-peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded. In 1723 King George
-I. conferred the colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel
-Moyle, who was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727,
-and to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to the
-TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He died on the 3rd of November, 1738.
-
-
-THOMAS PAGET.
-
-_Appointed 13th December, 1738._
-
-This officer entered the army in the reign of King William III.,
-and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now seventh
-dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the celebrated John
-Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, 1710, he was promoted
-to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth horse; he was afterwards
-lieut.-colonel of the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in
-July, 1732, was nominated colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from
-which he was removed, in 1738, to the TWENTY-SECOND. In 1739 he was
-promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of
-May, 1741.
-
-
-RICHARD O'FARRELL.
-
-_Appointed 12th August, 1741._
-
-RICHARD O'FARRELL was nominated ensign in a regiment of foot on
-the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation in the wars of
-King William III. and of Queen Anne. On the 20th of December, 1722,
-he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the ninth foot, and he
-performed the duties of commanding officer to that corps many years,
-with credit to himself and advantage to the service. On the decease
-of Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded the
-long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell with the
-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. In 1746 Colonel O'Farrell
-was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1754 to that of
-major-general. His decease occurred in 1757.
-
-
-EDWARD WHITMORE.
-
-_Appointed 11th July, 1757._
-
-EDWARD WHITMORE entered the army in the reign of King George II., and
-serving with distinction in the wars of the Austrian succession,
-was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment
-on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed the duty of commanding
-officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment with reputation ten years;
-and in July, 1757, King George II. rewarded him with the colonelcy
-of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general
-in America in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade under
-Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the descent on Cape
-Breton, and at the siege and capture of Louisburg, of which fortress
-he was afterwards nominated governor. On the 19th of February, 1761,
-he was promoted to the rank of major-general. During the following
-winter he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship
-was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth, and
-Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night, fell overboard
-and was drowned.
-
-
-THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE.
-
-_Appointed 29th March, 1762._
-
-THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE, second son of Thomas, first Viscount
-Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having served some time in the
-subordinate commissions, was appointed major of the Forty-fourth
-foot in February, 1747; and he was further promoted to the
-lieut.-colonelcy of the regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He
-was serving with his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred
-between Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the
-banks of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the
-forces sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to
-command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi.
-In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General
-Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable Thomas Gage
-was wounded. He continued to serve in America, where he raised a
-provincial regiment, which was numbered the eightieth, light-armed
-foot, of which he was appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also
-appointed brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the
-army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued to form
-part of the British dominions from that period. He was promoted
-to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in the same year he
-performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief in North America, and also
-succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth
-regiment, which he held two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst
-was re-appointed. In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the
-TWENTY-SECOND foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the rank
-of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between Great Britain
-and her North American colonies began to assume a serious aspect, he
-was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts
-Bay, and he arrived at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced
-in the following year, and his active exertions to suppress the
-rebellion were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment of
-Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned in a few
-months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed colonel of the
-seventeenth light dragoons; he was promoted to the rank of general
-in November following, and in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh
-dragoons. He died in 1787.
-
-
-CHARLES O'HARA.
-
-_Appointed 18th April, 1782._
-
-CHARLES O'HARA was appointed cornet in the third dragoons in
-December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant and
-captain in the second foot guards. He served in Portugal in 1762,
-and performed the duties of quartermaster-general to the army under
-Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. In 1769 he was promoted to the
-rank of captain and lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment
-in North America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the rank
-of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot guards under
-Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; distinguished himself at
-the passage of the Catawba river on the 1st of February, 1781; and
-was wounded at the battle of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782
-he was nominated to the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment; was
-removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was advanced
-to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded the British
-troops at Toulon, and was wounded and taken prisoner in an action
-with the French republican troops on the 30th of November, 1793. His
-services were rewarded with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar,
-and in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded
-that he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and
-enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and
-accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st of February,
-1802.
-
-
-DAVID DUNDAS.
-
-_Appointed 2nd April, 1791._
-
-DAVID DUNDAS was one of the most distinguished officers of the age
-in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the principles of
-military tactics. He commenced his military education at the age
-of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, and at fifteen he assisted
-in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he obtained a commission in the
-Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 he proceeded with the expedition to
-the coast of France as an assistant quartermaster-general; and in
-the following year obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised
-regiment of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth,
-or King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany in 1760 and
-1761; in the following summer he accompanied an expedition to Cuba,
-as aide-de-camp to Major-General Eliott, and was actively employed in
-the reduction of the Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in
-his regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged by an
-ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every branch of his
-profession, he obtained permission to proceed to the Continent, to
-observe the practice of the French and Austrian armies. In 1775 he
-obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the twelfth light dragoons, joined
-the regiment in Ireland shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the
-appointment of quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was
-removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now the
-fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the Continent,
-attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during three summers,
-and after his return he presented His Majesty with a detailed account
-of their evolutions.
-
-Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced, in
-1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military movements,
-which became the basis of our army regulations for field exercises
-and movements. His abilities obtained for him the favour and
-attention of King George III., who appointed him adjutant-general
-in Ireland, for the purpose of introducing his system of tactics
-into the army of that country. In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted
-to the rank of major-general. In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of
-the TWENTY-SECOND foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish
-staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in service
-of actual warfare. After the commencement of hostilities with the
-French republic, Major-General Dundas was employed on a military
-mission to the island of Jersey, and was subsequently sent to the
-Continent to confer with the Duke of York respecting the siege of
-Dunkirk. From Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded
-under Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was taken
-prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison. His services
-there, although he was ultimately obliged to evacuate the place,
-called forth the approbation of his Sovereign and of the British
-nation. After abandoning Toulon, he made a descent on Corsica, which
-island was reduced and annexed to the British dominions; but shortly
-afterwards he received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he
-arrived in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry
-at the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General
-Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through Holland, and the
-corps under his immediate command gained considerable advantage over
-the enemy in two successive actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly
-distinguished himself also in an attack upon the French post at
-Thuyl, in December of the same year. He continued with the British
-troops in Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was
-appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After his return
-to England he was appointed quartermaster-general to the army; and
-he composed the celebrated regulations for the field exercises and
-movements for the cavalry, which were approved by his Royal Highness
-the Duke of York, and by King George III., and ordered to be
-exclusively adopted throughout the cavalry.
-
-In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of the allied
-army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to Holland; he
-distinguished himself in several actions with the enemy, and was
-highly commended by His Royal Highness in his public despatches. In
-1801 he was appointed colonel of the second, or Royal North British
-dragoons, and was constituted governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was
-promoted to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the
-French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in command of
-the troops in the southern district, which comprised the counties
-of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was appointed governor of the Royal
-Hospital at Chelsea, and created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of
-March, 1809, His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished
-veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army, on the
-resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York,
-which appointment he held until the 25th of May, 1811, when His Royal
-Highness was re-appointed. He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of
-the rifle brigade on the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the
-colonelcy of the King's dragoon guards on the 27th of January, 1813.
-He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of sixty
-years.
-
-
-WILLIAM CROSBIE.
-
-_Appointed 23rd December, 1795._
-
-After serving in the subordinate commissions, WILLIAM CROSBIE was
-nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth regiment, on
-the 9th of May, 1769; and in October, 1778, he was promoted to the
-majority of the seventh Royal Fusiliers, with which corps he served
-in the Carolinas; in April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy
-of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785,
-he obtained the permission of King George III. for the introduction
-of an order of merit in the corps, which under his command obtained
-a high reputation for correct discipline. He was promoted to the
-rank of colonel in 1790; and in 1793 received a letter of service for
-raising the Eighty-ninth regiment, of which he was appointed colonel.
-In 1794 he was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed
-to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in 1795. He died on the 16th of June,
-1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was lieut.-governor at the
-time of his decease.
-
-
-JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE.
-
-_Appointed 18th June, 1798._
-
-JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal Navy, evinced
-great talent from his youth. It is recorded that, when a boy, he was
-taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed up the river St. Lawrence, to
-Quebec; and he constructed a chart of the river, which was given to
-Major-General Wolfe, who sailed with an expedition against Quebec,
-in 1759. On the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the
-Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston, in
-1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment in December,
-1775, and served at Long Island and New York in 1776, and in the
-expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777, when he distinguished himself at
-the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded. In October of the same
-year, he was placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The
-Queen's Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted
-to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services with this corps
-are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, in a letter to
-Lord George Germaine, in the following terms:--"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe
-has been at the head of a battalion since October, 1777, and since
-that time he has been perpetually with the advance of the army.
-The history of the corps under his command is a series of gallant,
-skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without a
-single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or taken, twice
-their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself has been thrice wounded;
-and I do not scruple to assert, that his successes have been no less
-the fruit of the most extensive knowledge of his profession which
-study and the experience within his reach could give him, than of
-the most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly
-distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina, and Virginia,
-he was included in the capitulation of York Town, and returned to
-England in a state of debility from excessive exertion, &c. In 1790
-he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and in the following year
-raised a corps of infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he
-was appointed colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently
-proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the same talent,
-energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously in the American war.
-In 1794 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1796 to
-the local rank of lieut.-general in the island of St. Domingo. In
-January, 1798, he was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment,
-and was removed, in June following, to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment,
-the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in 1806.
-
-
-SIR JAMES H. CRAIG, K.B.
-
-_Appointed 30th October, 1806._
-
-JAMES HENRY CRAIG was appointed ensign in the thirtieth foot, in
-1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in 1771 he was
-promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, with which
-corps he served several campaigns in America; and in 1777 he was
-promoted to the majority, and in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of
-the Eighty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1783, to
-the sixteenth. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and
-to that of major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the
-colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to the rank of
-lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth in 1804. He
-commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, in 1805, with the local
-rank of general, and the dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops
-under his orders landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession
-of the island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND
-regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor of Upper and Lower
-Canada, with the local rank of general in America; in 1809 he was
-removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. He was also appointed
-governor of Blackness Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812.
-
-
-THE HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH.
-
-_Appointed 18th September, 1809._
-
-In 1778 the HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH was appointed cornet in the
-eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was promoted to a lieutenancy
-in the Eighty-seventh foot. He embarked for the West Indies, in
-January, 1780, and served there, and in North America, until 1782,
-when he returned to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain
-in the second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain
-and lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns of
-1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness the Duke of
-York, and shared in the several actions in which the foot guards
-distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was promoted to the rank of
-colonel, and in 1799 he commanded the first battalion of his regiment
-in the expedition to Holland, where he served in several actions
-under Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness
-the Duke of York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the
-expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, and
-was promoted to the rank of major-general, in January, 1801. After
-commanding the light cavalry in Egypt some time, he was placed at
-the head of a brigade of infantry, and was honored with the Order of
-the Crescent from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of foot
-guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in 1807 he commanded
-a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. In 1808 he was promoted to
-the rank of lieut.-general, and appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth
-regiment, and in 1809 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND. He was
-promoted to the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the
-27th of October, 1843.
-
-
-SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.B.
-
-_Appointed 21st November, 1843._
-
-The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General Sir
-Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her Majesty to the Colonelcy
-of the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment.
-
- "TWENTY-SECOND!
-
- Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me at your head,
- and I shall end my military career wearing the uniform of the
- Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory, and well I know it will
- increase, when you have again an opportunity to use your Arms!
- Never were the Musket and Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor
- were the Royal Colours of England ever confided to more intrepid
- Soldiers!
-
- "Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments that
- they had formerly commanded, and with whose glory their own fame
- is associated; but old Comrades have passed away,--to the new men,
- they are strangers,--and nought remains to bind them to their
- Regiments, but Memory and Renown! My good fortune has been greater,
- for while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old Corps,
- the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the TWENTY-SECOND,
- placed among men at whose head I have so lately fought, and to
- whose valour I owe so much!!
-
- "Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as _pseudo_ Philosophers
- pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive us not of Manly
- sentiments. I shall always have the strongest attachment to the
- corps with whom I have served, and among the honors won for me by
- the Army of Scinde, the greatest is that of being your Colonel!!
-
- (Signed) "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_,
- "_Colonel 22nd Regiment_.
-
- "_Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844._"
-
-The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as Colonel of
-the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment, was in the _Duke of Wellington's own
-hand-writing_:--
-
- "P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty, principally
- on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you, as this was
- the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India engaged in the
- two glorious battles fought at _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_, in
- _Scinde_; and Her Majesty was graciously pleased to approve of the
- recommendation on that ground."
-
-
- LONDON:
- Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street,
- For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
-
-
-FOOTNOTE:
-
-[12] David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair,
-during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to
-Vienna and Turin.
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 64581 *** + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. + + Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been + placed at the end of each major section. + + A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example S^t or Esq^{re}. + + Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. + + + + +[Illustration: + + BY COMMAND OF His late Majesty WILLIAM THE IV^{TH}. + _and under the Patronage of_ + Her Majesty the Queen. + + HISTORICAL RECORDS, + _OF THE_ + British Army + + _Comprising the_ + _History of every Regiment_ + _IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE_. + + _By Richard Cannon Esq^{re}._ + + _Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards._ + + London. + + _Printed by Authority._] + + + + + HISTORICAL RECORD + + OF + + THE TWENTY-SECOND, + + OR + + THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + CONTAINING + + AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT + IN 1689, + + AND OF ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES + TO 1849. + + COMPILED BY + + RICHARD CANNON, ESQ., + + ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS. + + ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. + + LONDON: + PARKER, FURNIVALL, & PARKER, + 30, CHARING-CROSS. + + MDCCCXLIX. + + + + +GENERAL ORDERS. + + + _HORSE-GUARDS_, + _1st January, 1836_. + +His Majesty has been pleased to command that, with the view of doing +the fullest justice to Regiments, as well as to Individuals who have +distinguished themselves by their Bravery in Action with the Enemy, +an Account of the Services of every Regiment in the British Army +shall be published under the superintendence and direction of the +Adjutant-General; and that this Account shall contain the following +particulars, viz.:-- + + ---- The Period and Circumstances of the Original Formation of + the Regiment; The Stations at which it has been from time to time + employed; The Battles, Sieges, and other Military Operations in + which it has been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement + it may have performed, and the Colours, Trophies, &c., it may have + captured from the Enemy. + + ---- The Names of the Officers, and the number of Non-Commissioned + Officers and Privates Killed or Wounded by the Enemy, specifying + the place and Date of the Action. + + ---- The Names of those Officers who, in consideration of their + Gallant Services and Meritorious Conduct in Engagements with the + Enemy, have been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other Marks + of His Majesty's gracious favour. + + ---- The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and + Privates, as may have specially signalized themselves in Action. + + And, + + ---- The Badges and Devices which the Regiment may have been + permitted to bear, and the Causes on account of which such Badges + or Devices, or any other Marks of Distinction, have been granted. + + By Command of the Right Honorable + GENERAL LORD HILL, + _Commanding-in-Chief_. + + JOHN MACDONALD, + _Adjutant-General_. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend +upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are +animated, and consequently it is of the highest importance that any +measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, by which alone +great and gallant actions are achieved, should be adopted. + +Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment of this desirable +object than a full display of the noble deeds with which the Military +History of our country abounds. To hold forth these bright examples +to the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to incite him to +emulate the meritorious conduct of those who have preceded him in +their honorable career, are among the motives that have given rise to +the present publication. + +The operations of the British Troops are, indeed, announced in the +"London Gazette," from whence they are transferred into the public +prints: the achievements of our armies are thus made known at the +time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute of praise and +admiration to which they are entitled. On extraordinary occasions, +the Houses of Parliament have been in the habit of conferring on the +Commanders, and the Officers and Troops acting under their orders, +expressions of approbation and of thanks for their skill and bravery; +and these testimonials, confirmed by the high honour of their +Sovereign's approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier most +highly prizes. + +It has not, however, until late years, been the practice (which +appears to have long prevailed in some of the Continental armies) +for British Regiments to keep regular records of their services +and achievements. Hence some difficulty has been experienced in +obtaining, particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic account +of their origin and subsequent services. + +This defect will now be remedied, in consequence of His Majesty +having been pleased to command that every Regiment shall, in future, +keep a full and ample record of its services at home and abroad. + +From the materials thus collected, the country will henceforth +derive information as to the difficulties and privations which +chequer the career of those who embrace the military profession. In +Great Britain, where so large a number of persons are devoted to +the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and +where these pursuits have, for so long a period, being undisturbed +by the _presence of war_, which few other countries have escaped, +comparatively little is known of the vicissitudes of active service +and of the casualties of climate, to which, even during peace, the +British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or +no interval of repose. + +In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which the country +derives from the industry and the enterprise of the agriculturist +and the trader, its happy inhabitants may be supposed not often to +reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,--on +their sufferings,--and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so +many national benefits are obtained and preserved. + +The conduct of the British Troops, their valour, and endurance, +have shone conspicuously under great and trying difficulties; and +their character has been established in Continental warfare by the +irresistible spirit with which they have effected debarkations in +spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the gallantry and +steadiness with which they have maintained their advantages against +superior numbers. + +In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, ample +justice has generally been done to the gallant exertions of the +Corps employed; but the details of their services and of acts of +individual bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the +various Regiments. + +These Records are now preparing for publication, under his Majesty's +special authority, by Mr. RICHARD CANNON, Principal Clerk of the +Adjutant General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot fail +to be useful and interesting to military men of every rank, it is +considered that they will also afford entertainment and information +to the general reader, particularly to those who may have served in +the Army, or who have relatives in the Service. + +There exists in the breasts of most of those who have served, or +are serving, in the Army, an _Esprit de Corps_--an attachment to +everything belonging to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative +of the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove interesting. +Authentic accounts of the actions of the great, the valiant, the +loyal, have always been of paramount interest with a brave and +civilized people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes who, +in moments of danger and terror, have stood "firm as the rocks +of their native shore:" and when half the world has been arrayed +against them, they have fought the battles of their Country with +unshaken fortitude. It is presumed that a record of achievements in +war,--victories so complete and surprising, gained by our countrymen, +our brothers, our fellow citizens in arms,--a record which revives +the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant deeds before +us,--will certainly prove acceptable to the public. + +Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers +will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, +and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, been +conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying the value and importance +of its services, will be faithfully set forth. + +As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record of each Regiment will +be printed in a distinct number, so that when the whole shall be +completed, the Parts may be bound up in numerical succession. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + +TO + +THE INFANTRY. + + +The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for +innate courage and unshaken firmness, and the national superiority +of the British troops over those of other countries has been evinced +in the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains so +many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery, that no doubts can +be raised upon the facts which are recorded. It must therefore be +admitted, that the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is +INTREPIDITY. This quality was evinced by the inhabitants of England +when their country was invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army, +on which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into the sea to +attack the Roman soldiers as they descended from their ships; and, +although their discipline and arms were inferior to those of their +adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing intimidated the +flower of the Roman troops, including Cæsar's favourite tenth legion. +Their arms consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons of +rude construction. They had chariots, to the axles of which were +fastened sharp pieces of iron resembling scythe-blades, and infantry +in long chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and fought on +foot, and for change of ground, pursuit or retreat, sprang into the +chariot and drove off with the speed of cavalry. These inventions +were, however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in the course +of time a military system, with discipline and subordination, was +introduced, and British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted to +the greatest advantage; a full development of the national character +followed, and it shone forth in all its native brilliancy. + +The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted principally of +infantry: Thanes, and other men of property, however, fought on +horseback. The infantry were of two classes, heavy and light. The +former carried large shields armed with spikes, long broad swords and +spears; and the latter were armed with swords or spears only. They +had also men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and javelins. + +The feudal troops established by William the Conqueror consisted (as +already stated in the Introduction to the Cavalry) almost entirely +of horse; but when the warlike barons and knights, with their trains +of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion of men appeared +on foot, and, although these were of inferior degree, they proved +stout-hearted Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary troops +were employed, infantry always constituted a considerable portion of +the military force; and this _arme_ has since acquired, in every +quarter of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the armies of any +nation at any period. + +The weapons carried by the infantry, during the several reigns +succeeding the Conquest, were bows and arrows, half-pikes, lances, +halberds, various kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour +was worn on the head and body, and in course of time the practice +became general for military men to be so completely cased in steel, +that it was almost impossible to slay them. + +The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the destructive purposes +of war, in the early part of the fourteenth century, produced a +change in the arms and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and +arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but British archers +continued formidable adversaries; and, owing to the inconvenient +construction and imperfect bore of the fire-arms when first +introduced, a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow from +their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition to every army, +even as late as the sixteenth century. + +During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth each company +of infantry usually consisted of men armed five different ways; in +every hundred men forty were "_men-at-arms_," and sixty "_shot_;" the +"men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe men, and thirty +pikemen; and the "shot" were twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and +twenty harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his principal +weapon, a sword and dagger. + +Companies of infantry varied at this period in numbers from 150 +to 300 men; each company had a colour or ensign, and the mode of +formation recommended by an English military writer (Sir John Smithe) +in 1590 was:--the colour in the centre of the company guarded by the +halberdiers; the pikemen in equal proportions, on each flank of the +halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of the pikes; half +the archers on each flank of the musketeers, and the harquebusiers +(whose arms were much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal +proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.[1] It +was customary to unite a number of companies into one body, called +a REGIMENT, which frequently amounted to three thousand men: but +each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous improvements +were eventually introduced in the construction of fire-arms, and, +it having been found impossible to make armour proof against the +muskets then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without its +being too weighty for the soldier, armour was gradually laid aside by +the infantry in the seventeenth century: bows and arrows also fell +into disuse, and the infantry were reduced to two classes, viz.: +_musketeers_, armed with matchlock muskets, swords, and daggers; and +_pikemen_, armed with pikes from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and +swords. + +In the early part of the seventeenth century Gustavus Adolphus, King +of Sweden, reduced the strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused +the gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in flasks, or in +small wooden bandoliers, each containing a charge, to be made up +into cartridges, and carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment +into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division of pikemen. He +also adopted the practice of forming four regiments into a brigade; +and the number of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each +regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that his infantry could +resist the charge of the celebrated Polish horsemen and Austrian +cuirassiers; and his armies became the admiration of other nations. +His mode of formation was copied by the English, French, and other +European states; but so great was the prejudice in favour of ancient +customs, that all his improvements were not adopted until near a +century afterwards. + +In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service, styled the +Admiral's regiment. In 1678 each company of 100 men usually consisted +of 30 pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with light firelocks. +In this year the King added a company of men armed with hand grenades +to each of the old British regiments, which was designated the +"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived as to fit in the +muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets similar to those at present in +use were adopted about twenty years afterwards. + +An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by order of King James II., +to guard the artillery, and was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now +7th Foot). This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did not carry +pikes. + +King William III. incorporated the Admiral's regiment in the second +Foot Guards, and raised two Marine regiments for sea-service. +During the war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting +the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14 pikemen and 46 +musketeers; the captains carried pikes; lieutenants, partisans; +ensigns, half-pikes; and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697 +the Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again formed on the +breaking out of the war in 1702.[2] + +During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were laid aside, and every +infantry soldier was armed with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the +grenadiers ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades; +and the regiments were directed to lay aside their third colour: the +corps of Royal Artillery was first added to the Army in this reign. + +About the year 1745, the men of the battalion companies of infantry +ceased to carry swords; during the reign of George II. light +companies were added to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of +General Officers recommended that the grenadiers should lay aside +their swords, as that weapon had never been used during the Seven +Years' War. Since that period the arms of the infantry soldier have +been limited to the musket and bayonet. + +The arms and equipment of the British Troops have seldom differed +materially, since the Conquest, from those of other European states; +and in some respects the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed +to be inferior to that of the nations with whom they have had to +contend; yet, under this disadvantage, the bravery and superiority of +the British infantry have been evinced on very many and most trying +occasions, and splendid victories have been gained over very superior +numbers. + +Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like champions who have +dared to confront a host of foes, and have proved themselves valiant +with any arms. At _Crecy_, King Edward III., at the head of about +30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August, 1346, Philip King of +France, whose army is said to have amounted to 100,000 men; here +British valour encountered veterans of renown:--the King of Bohemia, +the King of Majorca, and many princes and nobles were slain, and +the French army was routed and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards, +Edward Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black Prince, +defeated, at _Poictiers_, with 14,000 men, a French army of 60,000 +horse, besides infantry, and took John I., King of France, and his +son Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415, King Henry +V., with an army of about 13,000 men, although greatly exhausted by +marches, privations, and sickness, defeated, at _Agincourt_, the +Constable of France, at the head of the flower of the French nobility +and an army said to amount to 60,000 men, and gained a complete +victory. + +During the seventy years' war between the United Provinces of the +Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy, which commenced in 1578 and +terminated in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the +States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable spirit and +firmness;[3] and in the thirty years' war between the Protestant +Princes and the Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the +service of Sweden and other states were celebrated for deeds of +heroism.[4] In the wars of Queen Anne, the fame of the British army +under the great MARLBOROUGH was spread throughout the world; and +if we glance at the achievements performed within the memory of +persons now living, there is abundant proof that the Britons of the +present age are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities +which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds of the brave men, +of whom there are many now surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801, +under the brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army, which had +been vainly styled _Invincible_, to evacuate that country; also the +services of the gallant Troops during the arduous campaigns in the +Peninsula, under the immortal WELLINGTON; and the determined stand +made by British Army at Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had +long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain, and had sought and +planned her destruction by every means he could devise, was compelled +to leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to place himself +at the disposal of the British Government These achievements, with +others of recent dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the +same valour and constancy which glowed in the breasts of the heroes +of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to +animate the Britons of the nineteenth century. + +The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust and muscular +frame,--intrepidity which no danger can appal,--unconquerable +spirit and resolution,--patience in fatigue and privation, and +cheerful obedience to his superiors. These qualities, united with +an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate and give +a skilful direction to the energies and adventurous spirit of the +hero, and a wise selection of officers of superior talent to command, +whose presence inspires confidence,--have been the leading causes +of the splendid victories gained by the British arms.[5] The fame +of the deeds of the past and present generations in the various +battle-fields where the robust sons of Albion have fought and +conquered, surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory; these +achievements will live in the page of history to the end of time. + +The records of the several regiments will be found to contain a +detail of facts of an interesting character, connected with the +hardships, sufferings, and gallant exploits of British soldiers in +the various parts of the world, where the calls of their Country and +the commands of their Sovereign have required them to proceed in the +execution of their duty, whether in active continental operations, +or in maintaining colonial territories in distant and unfavourable +climes. + +The superiority of the British infantry has been pre-eminently set +forth in the wars of six centuries, and admitted by the greatest +commanders which Europe has produced. The formations and movements of +this _arme_, as at present practised, while they are adapted to every +species of warfare, and to all probable situations and circumstances +of service, are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military +tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific principles. +Although the movements and evolutions have been copied from the +continental armies, yet various improvements have from time to time +been introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by which the +superiority of the national military character is maintained. The +rank and influence which Great Britain has attained among the nations +of the world, have in a great measure been purchased by the valour +of the Army, and to persons who have the welfare of their country +at heart, the records of the several regiments cannot fail to prove +interesting. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] A company of 200 men would appear thus:-- + + __| + | | + |__| + | + 20 20 20 30 2|0 30 20 20 20 + | + Harquebuses. Muskets. Halberds. Muskets. Harquebuses. + Archers. Pikes. Pikes. Archers. + +The musket carried a ball which weighed 1/10th of a pound; and the +harquebus a ball which weighed 1/25th of a pound. + +[2] The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps +in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of +Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under Admiral +Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and in its +subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at the +siege of Barcelona in 1705. + +[3] The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed +in 1590, observes:--"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation +would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the +field, let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the +Spanish infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe. +For instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the +Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or +Buffs. + +[4] _Vide_ the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of +Foot. + +[5] "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes +the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in +Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but +His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed +on the consideration of every part of the army, that it has been a +strict observance of order, discipline, and military system, which +has given the full energy to the native valour of the troops, and +has enabled them proudly to assert the superiority of the national +military character, in situations uncommonly arduous, and under +circumstances of peculiar difficulty."--_General Orders in 1801._ + +In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope +(afterwards Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the +successful result of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, +1809, it is stated:--"On no occasion has the undaunted valour of +British troops ever been more manifest. At the termination of a +severe and harassing march, rendered necessary by the superiority +which the enemy had acquired, and which had materially impaired the +efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages were to be encountered. +These have all been surmounted by the conduct of the troops +themselves; and the enemy has been taught, that whatever advantages +of position or of numbers he may possess, there is inherent in +the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not how to +yield,--that no circumstances can appal,--and that will ensure +victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human +means." + + + + + THE TWENTY-SECOND, + + OR + + THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT, + + BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR + + THE WORDS + + "SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD," + + IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY + IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE, + DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843; + + AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES + + OF MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD, + + FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY, + ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843. + + + + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + + + +CONTENTS + +OF THE + +HISTORICAL RECORD. + + + YEAR PAGE + + INTRODUCTION. + + 1689 Formation of the Regiment 1 + + ---- Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy - + + ---- Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment - + + ---- Stationed at Chester - + + ---- Embarked for Ireland - + + ---- Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus 2 + + ---- Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh - + + ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment, + appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to + the Duke of Norfolk - + + 1690 Engaged at the _Battle of the Boyne_ - + + ---- Reviewed by King William at _Finglass_ - + + ---- Advanced against Athlone - + + ---- Rejoined the Army - + + ---- Employed at the first siege of Limerick - + + ---- Proceeded into winter-quarters - + + ---- Engaged with the Rapparees - + + 1691 Proceeded with the Army against _Ballymore_ 3 + + 1691 Engaged in the Siege and Capture of _Athlone_ 3 + + ---- Engaged at the Battle of _Aghrim_ - + + ---- Engaged at the Capture of _Galway_ - + + ---- ------------------------ _Limerick_ 4 + + ---- Termination of the War in Ireland - + + 1695 Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders - + + 1696 Returned to England - + + 1697 Treaty of Peace concluded at _Ryswick_ - + + 1698 Re-embarked for Ireland 5 + + 1701 Appointment of Brigadier-General William + Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot, + with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis - + + 1702 Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King + William III - + + ---- Regiment embarked for Jamaica - + + ---- Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General + Selwyn, deceased - + + 1705 Establishment augmented by two companies - + + 1712 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to + the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father, + Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired 6 + + 1713 Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht - + + 1714 Regiment returned to England, leaving two + Independent Companies at Jamaica - + + 1715 Employed in recruiting its Establishment - + + 1718 Embarked for _Ireland_ - + + 1726 ------------ _Minorca_ - + + 1727 Detachment embarked for _Gibraltar_ to assist in + its Defence against the Spaniards - + + 1730 Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from + the Twenty-Eighth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd, + removed to the Sixteenth Regiment - + + 1734 Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to + the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel William + Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot 7 + + 1737 Appointment of Major-General John Moyle, + from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel Hon. James + St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment + of Foot - + + 1738 Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the + Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General + Moyle, deceased - + + 1741 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, + from the Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in + succession to Colonel Paget, deceased - + + 1748 Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle - + + 1749 Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to + Ireland - + + 1751 Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating + the Clothing, Colours, Numbers, + Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of + the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry - + + 1756 War declared against France - + + ---- Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America - + + 1757 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore + from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Major-General + O'Farrell, deceased 8 + + 1758 Engaged in the siege of _Louisburg_, and the + Capture of the Island of _Cape Breton_ - + + 1759 The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the + Louisburg Grenadiers,--Engaged at the Battle + of Quebec 9 + + 1760 Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to + _Quebec_, and advanced to _Montreal_ - + + ---- Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas - + + 1761 Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the + _West Indies_ 9 + + ---- Engaged in the capture of the Island of _Dominica_ 10 + + 1762 Engaged in the Capture of _Martinique_, _Grenada_, + _St. Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_ -- + + ---- Embarked with the expedition against the + _Havannah_ -- + + ---- Storming and Capture of _Fort Moro_ 11 + + ---- Appointment of Major-General Honorable + Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea -- + + 1763 Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau -- + + ---- The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange + for the Province of Florida, in South America -- + + ---- Regiment proceeded to West Florida -- + + 1765 Embarked for Great Britain -- + + 1773 Proceeded to Ireland -- + + 1775 Embarked for North America 12 + + ---- Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill -- + + 1776 Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia -- + + ---- Embarked for Staten Island, near New York -- + + ---- Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the + Americans at Brooklyn -- + + ---- Gained possession of New York, captured Fort + Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys 13 + + ---- Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode + Island -- + + 1778 The King of France having united with the + Americans, made preparations for the re-capture + of Rhode Island, but was compelled + to abandon the siege 14 + + 1779 The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to + vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded + to New York 15 + + 1782 Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the + Colonelcy, in succession to General the Honorable + Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons 15 + + ---- Regiment received instructions to assume the title of + _the Twenty-Second_, or _the Cheshire Regiment_ -- + + 1783 The American War having terminated, the regiment + embarked for England -- + + 1785 Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards + at the Castle -- + + ---- King George the III. authorized an _Order of Merit_ to + be instituted in the corps -- + + 1787 Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and thence to + Portsmouth 16 + + 1788 Proceeded to Chatham and Dover -- + + 1790 Embarked for Ireland -- + + 1791 Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the + Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Hara, + removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders 17 + + 1793 War commenced between Great Britain and France -- + + ---- Regiment embarked for the West Indies -- + + 1794 Capture of the Island of Martinique -- + + ---- ---- ---- St. Lucia -- + + ---- ---- ---- Guadaloupe -- + + ---- ---- ---- St. Domingo -- + + 1795 Returned to England from St. Domingo 18 + + ---- Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the + Eighty-Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light + Dragoons -- + + 1798 Proceeded to Guernsey -- + + 1798 Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the + Eighty-First Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General Crosbie, deceased 18 + + 1799 Removed to Portsmouth 19 + + ---- Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being + sent to the Cape of Good Hope, preparatory to being + embarked for service in the East Indies -- + + 1800 Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope -- + + 1802 Proceeded to India 20 + + 1803 Arrival at Calcutta -- + + ---- The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force + assembled for the attack of the province of Cuttack -- + + ---- Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of + Barrabatta by storm -- + + 1804 Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege + of Bhurtpore 21 + + 1805 Marched from _Fort William_ and encamped at _Benares_, + thence proceeded to _Cawnpore_ -- + + ---- Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies + distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks -- + + ---- _Rajah Sing_ submitted and concluded a treaty of peace 22 + + ---- British army withdrew from Bhurtpore -- + + ---- The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore -- + + ---- _Holkar_ and _Scindia_ concluded Treaties of Peace -- + + 1806 Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to _Delhi_ -- + + ---- Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the + Governor-General in Council and of General Lord Lake, + Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war -- + + 1806 Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, + K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased 22 + + 1807 Proceeded to Berhampore -- + + 1809 Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch + to the Colonelcy, in succession to General Sir James + Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders -- + + 1810 Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the + expedition against the Mauritius -- + + ---- Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius 23 + + 1811 Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of + Madagascar -- + + 1812 Proceeded to Bourbon -- + + 1813 Removed a second time to the Mauritius -- + + 1814 A second Battalion added to the establishment of the + regiment, which was reduced in the same year -- + + 1815 The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the + Mauritius from Hindoostan 24 + + 1819 Embarked for England from the Mauritius -- + + ---- Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton 25 + + 1821 Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland -- + + 1822 Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men + assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork. The officers + commanding this detachment received the thanks of + H. R. H. the Duke of York, and were presented with a + silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the + Town of Newmarket, for attacking and defeating this + body of insurgents -- + + 1826 Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies + preparatory to embarkation for foreign service 26 + + ---- Service Companies embarked for Jamaica -- + + 1830 Depôt Companies embarked for England 27 + + 1831 Service Companies employed in suppressing an + insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica -- + + 1836 Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland -- + + 1837 Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland, + and rejoined by the Depôt Companies -- + + 1840 Embarked from Ireland for England -- + + 1841 Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah 28 + + 1842 Proceeded to _Scinde_, and encamped at Kurrachee -- + + 1843 Employed in the destruction of the Fort of _Emaum Ghur_ -- + + ---- The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described + by Major-General William E. P. Napier 29 + + ---- The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr 30 + + ---- Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde -- + + ---- Treacherous attack upon the British residency at + _Hyderabad_, and gallant defence made by the _Light + Company_ of the _Twenty-Second_ regiment -- + + ---- Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir + Charles Napier 31 + + ---- Battle of Meeanee -- + + ---- Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle -- + + ---- British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad 32 + + ---- Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee -- + + ---- Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment 34 + + ---- Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed 36 + + ---- Battle of Hyderabad -- + + ---- Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert 37 + + ---- Particulars of the march of the British troops through + the desert -- + + 1843 Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and + by the British Parliament, on the Twenty-second + regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde 38 + + ---- Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops + in distributing the medals conferred on them for their + gallantry in this campaign 40 + + ---- Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee 42 + + ---- Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir + Charles Napier's order on the occasion 43 + + ---- Embarked for Bombay -- + + ---- Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay -- + + ---- Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the + Colonelcy, in succession to General Honorable E. Finch, + deceased 44 + + 1844 Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts -- + + ---- Capture of Forts _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_ -- + + ---- Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district 45 + + ---- Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh -- + + 1845 Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts -- + + ---- Returned to Poonah -- + + 1846 Marched to Bombay 46 + + 1847 Removed to Poonah -- + + 1849 Proceeded to Bombay -- + + ---- Conclusion -- + + + Description of the Standards captured at the battles of + Meeanee and Hyderabad, and of the Medal conferred in + honor of the victories obtained at those places 47 + + + + +SUCCESSION OF COLONELS + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + + YEAR PAGE + + 1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk 48 + + ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt. 49 + + 1701 William Selwyn 51 + + 1702 Thomas Handasyd -- + + 1712 Roger Handasyd 52 + + 1730 William Barrell -- + + 1734 _Hon._ James St. Clair -- + + 1737 John Moyle 53 + + 1738 Thomas Paget 54 + + 1741 Richard O'Farrell -- + + 1757 Edward Whitmore -- + + 1762 _Hon._ Thomas Gage 55 + + 1782 Charles O'Hara 56 + + 1791 David Dundas 57 + + 1795 William Crosbie 59 + + 1798 John Graves Simcoe 60 + + 1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B. 61 + + 1809 _Hon._ Edward Finch 62 + + 1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. 63 + + +PLATES. + + Colours of the Regiment _to face_ 1 + + Costume of the Regiment 32 + + Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the + Battle of Meeanee in 1843; and of the Silver + Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged + in the Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad 47 + + +[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + +QUEEN'S COLOUR. + +REGIMENTAL COLOUR. + +FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS. + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand_] + + + + +HISTORICAL RECORD + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + +[Sidenote: 1689] + +The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in February, +1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations of security to the +civil and religious institutions of the country, and of prosperity +in every branch of national industry; but in Ireland the majority +of the people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and a +body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance of that +country from the power of King James, who had landed there with +an armament from France. On this occasion HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, +evinced zeal for the principles of the Revolution, and raised a +regiment of pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers +was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of his Grace +now bears the title of the TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF +FOOT. + +Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped, and disciplined, +the regiment was encamped near Chester in the early part of August, +and soon afterwards embarked for Ireland, with the forces commanded +by Marshal Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of +_Carrickfergus_ was commenced, and the garrison of that fortress was +forced to surrender in a few days. + +From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the army to Dundalk, +where the troops were encamped on low and wet ground, and suffered +much in their health. + +While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the Duke of Norfolk was +succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir Henry Bellasis, who had commanded +the Sixth regiment of foot when it was in the Dutch service. + +On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its march from Dundalk +for Armagh, for winter-quarters. + +[Sidenote: 1690] + +In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to serve at the +battle of the _Boyne_, under the eye of its Sovereign, who commanded +the army in Ireland in person; and on this occasion it took part in +forcing the passage of the river, and in gaining a decisive victory +over the army of King James on the 1st of July. + +Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin, the regiment +was reviewed by King William at Finglass, on the 8th of July, and +mustered six hundred and twenty-eight rank and file under arms. +It was afterwards detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against +Athlone; but that fortress was found better provided for a siege than +had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the army. + +The TWENTY-SECOND was one of the corps employed at the siege of +_Limerick_. Many things combined to prevent the capture of that +fortress until the following year, and when the siege was raised, +the regiment proceeded into winter-quarters, from whence it sent +out detachments, which had several rencounters with bands of armed +peasantry, called Rapparees. + +[Sidenote: 1691] + +On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army commanded by +Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards Earl of Athlone) on its march +for _Ballymore_, which fortress was speedily forced to surrender. + +From Ballymore, the regiment marched to _Athlone_, and had the honour +to take part in the siege of that fortress, which was captured by +storm on the 1st of July. The grenadier company of the regiment +formed part of the storming party, which forded the river Shannon +under a heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry. The +capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid achievements which +have exalted the reputation of the British arms, and its reduction +proved a presage of additional triumphs. + +Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone, General St. Ruth +retreated, with the French and Irish army under his orders, to a +position at _Aghrim_, where he was attacked on the 12th of July. On +this occasion, the regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by +its Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it contributed +towards the complete overthrow of the army of King James, which was +driven from the field with severe loss, including its commander, +General St. Ruth, who was killed by a cannon-ball. + +The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers killed; one +Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded. + +On the 19th of July the army approached _Galway_; after sunset six +regiments of foot and four squadrons of horse and dragoons passed the +river by pontoons, and on the following morning they captured some +outworks. On the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General +Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway, and he took +possession of the town with the TWENTY-SECOND and two other regiments +of foot. + +The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege and capitulation +of _Limerick_, which city was surrendered in September, and completed +the deliverance of Ireland from the power of King James. + +[Sidenote: 1692] + +[Sidenote: 1695] + +After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed in garrison +and other duties of home-service, until 1695, when it proceeded to +the Netherlands, to reinforce the army commanded by King William +III., who was engaged in war for the preservation of the liberties of +Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of France. After landing at +Ostend, the regiment was placed in garrison. + +[Sidenote: 1696] + +Some advantages had been gained over the French arms; to counteract +which, Louis XIV. attempted to weaken the confederates by forming +plans for causing England to become the theatre of civil war. With +this view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in the +French service were sent to England in disguise, to instigate the +adherents of King James to take arms; a plot was also formed for +the assassination of King William, and a French army marched to +the coast to be in readiness to embark for England. Under these +circumstances the TWENTY-SECOND regiment and a number of other corps +were ordered to return to England, where they arrived in March, 1696, +and the TWENTY-SECOND landed at Gravesend. The conspirators for the +assassination of King William were discovered; several persons were +apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the French ports, +and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated. + +[Sidenote: 1697] + +In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded at Ryswick, +and the British Monarch saw his efforts for the civil and religious +liberties of Europe attended with success. + +[Sidenote: 1698] + +[Sidenote: 1700] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was afterwards sent to Ireland, where it +was stationed during the remainder of the reign of King William III. + +[Sidenote: 1701] + +On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment was +conferred on Brigadier-General William Selwyn, in succession to +Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis, who was removed to the Second +foot, then styled the Queen Dowager's regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1702] + +King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded by Queen +Anne, who declared war against France. Brigadier-General Selwyn +was nominated Governor of Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of +Major-General on the 10th of June, 1702. The TWENTY-SECOND regiment +was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other corps also +embarked for stations in the West Indies: the British government +designing to make a general attack on the possessions of France and +Spain in South America. + +Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded in the +colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel, Thomas Handasyd, by +commission dated the 20th of June, 1702. + +[Sidenote: 1703] + +A considerable body of troops arrived in the West Indies in 1703: but +they were afterwards recalled to take part in the war in Europe. The +TWENTY-SECOND regiment was left at the island of Jamaica, and during +the reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in protecting +Jamaica, and the other British settlements in the West Indies, which +important duty it performed with reputation. + +[Sidenote: 1704] + +[Sidenote: 1705] + +While employed on this duty, the regiment received drafts from +several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation of two companies was +made to its establishment. + +[Sidenote: 1712] + +Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General in +December, 1705, and to that of Major-General in January, 1710. In +1712 he retired from the colonelcy, resigning his commission in +favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd, of the regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1713] + +[Sidenote: 1714] + +In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace to Europe; +and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was issued for the men of the +regiment fit for duty to be formed into two independent companies for +service at Jamaica: the officers and staff returning to Europe to +recruit. + +The two independent companies thus formed from the TWENTY-SECOND +were the nucleus of the FORTY-NINTH regiment, which was formed of +independent companies at Jamaica in 1743. + +[Sidenote: 1715] + +[Sidenote: 1718] + +The officers and the serjeants not required for the independent +companies, having arrived in England, were actively employed in +recruiting in 1715; and in 1718 the regiment proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1719] + +[Sidenote: 1726] + +The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight years from +1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned year, it +proceeded to the island of Minorca, which had been captured by the +English, in 1708, and was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of +Utrecht in 1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar. + +[Sidenote: 1727] + +In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged _Gibraltar_, and a +detachment of the regiment, being sent to reinforce the garrison, had +the honor to take part in the successful defence of that important +fortress. When the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment +rejoined the regiment at Minorca. + +[Sidenote: 1730] + +Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with reputation until 1730, +when he was removed to the Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by +Brigadier-General William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1734] + +Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth foot in 1734, +when King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment on Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the +First foot-guards. + +[Sidenote: 1737] + +On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair was +removed to the First, the Royal regiment of foot, and his Majesty +nominated Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1738] + +Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November, 1738, and the +colonelcy was afterwards conferred on Colonel Thomas Paget, from the +Thirty-second regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1739] + +[Sidenote: 1741] + +In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. +He died on the 28th of May, 1741, and was succeeded in the colonelcy +of the regiment by Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth +foot. + +[Sidenote: 1748] + +[Sidenote: 1749] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was employed in the protection of the +island of Minorca, during the whole of the War of the Austrian +Succession, and, peace having been concluded, it was relieved from +that duty in 1749, and proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1751] + +In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and distinctions of +the several regiments of the army, dated the 1st of July, 1751, the +facings of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment were directed to be of _pale +buff_. The First, or King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second, +or Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in the +upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number of the Rank of +the regiment, in gold Roman characters, within a wreath of roses and +thistles on the same stalk. + +[Sidenote: 1755] + +[Sidenote: 1756] + +The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755 by the +aggressions of the French on the British territory in North America; +and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was declared against France; in the +same year the TWENTY-SECOND regiment embarked from Ireland for North +America. + +[Sidenote: 1757] + +In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the Forty-third, +Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the Sixtieth, under +Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with the view of being employed in +the attack of _Louisburg_, the capital of the French island of _Cape +Breton_, situate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was +deferred until the following year, and the regiment was stationed in +Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General O'Farrell died in the +summer of this year, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred +on Brigadier-General Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of +the Thirty-sixth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1758] + +Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the command of +Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the regiment proceeded with the +expedition commanded by Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, +and a landing was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the +8th of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry. The +TWENTY-SECOND had Lieutenants Pierce Butler, John Jermyn, and William +Hamilton wounded; also several private soldiers killed and wounded.[6] + +The siege of _Louisburg_, the capital of the island, was afterwards +commenced; and in carrying on the approaches the troops underwent +great fatigue with cheerful alacrity. By their perseverance, and +the co-operation of the fleet, the town was taken in July, and two +other islands in the Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the +thanks of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for their +conduct on this occasion. + +[Sidenote: 1759] + +During the year 1759 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment was stationed at +Louisburg. Major-General James Wolfe proceeded up the river St. +Lawrence, with a small armament,[7] and Quebec was captured; but the +nation sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was killed in +the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front of Quebec, on the 13th +of September, 1759. + +[Sidenote: 1760] + +In the spring of 1760 the TWENTY-SECOND and Fortieth regiments +proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel Lord Rollo, of the +TWENTY-SECOND, up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they +advanced upon _Montreal_, with the troops under Brigadier-General +the Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in Canada were +invaded at three points, and the Governor concentrated his forces at +Montreal; but he was unable to withstand the valour and discipline of +British troops, commanded by officers of talent and experience; he +therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada, the French +battalions becoming prisoners of war. The TWENTY-SECOND had thus the +honor of taking part in the conquest of the two fine provinces of +Upper and Lower Canada, which have since continued to form part of +the possessions of the British Crown. + +[Sidenote: 1761] + +After the conquest of Canada, the TWENTY-SECOND were removed to +Albany, from whence they proceeded to New York, in April, 1761, and +afterwards embarked, under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies. + +The island of _Dominica_ had been declared neutral; but it was found +to be so much under the influence of France, and proved a refuge +to so many privateers of that nation, that the British government +resolved to take possession of it. The TWENTY-SECOND, and other corps +under Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June, under +cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove the enemy from his +batteries: the grenadiers of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment distinguished +themselves on this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to +submission with little loss. + +[Sidenote: 1762] + +From Dominica the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded to Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, +and joined the troops assembled at that place under the orders of +Major-General the Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the +French island of _Martinique_. After several attempts on other parts +of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des Navières Bay, on the +16th of January, 1762; the works on the heights of _Morne Tortenson_ +were captured on the 24th of that month; _Morne Garnier_ was carried +on the 27th; and the citadel of _Fort Royal_ surrendered on the 4th +of February. These successes were followed by the surrender of the +opulent city of St. Pierre, and the submission of the whole island +to the British Crown. The Commander of the expedition stated in his +despatch--"I cannot find words to render that ample justice which is +due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have had the honor +to command. The difficulties they had to encounter in the attack of +an enemy possessed of every advantage of art and nature were great; +and their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles, furnishes a +noble example of British spirit." + +The capture of Martinique was followed by that of _Grenada_, _St. +Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_; and the acquisition of these islands +gave additional honor to the expedition of which the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment formed part. + +Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, mustering six hundred and two rank and file, under +the command of Major Loftus, joined the expedition commanded by +General the Earl of Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and +important Spanish city of the _Havannah_, in the island of Cuba The +TWENTY-SECOND, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five companies of the +Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under Brigadier-General Lord Rollo. + +Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament arrived +within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th of June. A landing +was effected on the following day, and the _Moro_ fort, being the +key-position of the extensive works which covered the town, was +besieged. This proved an undertaking of great difficulty; but every +obstacle was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea +forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of July. An +extensive series of batteries was prepared, and opened, on the 11th +of August, so well-directed a fire on the works which protected the +town, that the guns of the garrison were soon silenced, and the +important city of the Havannah was surrendered to the British arms. +Nine Spanish men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the +stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour. + +In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who was drowned at +sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by Major-General the Honorable +Thomas Gage, from the Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which +was raised in 1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau. + +[Sidenote: 1763] + +At the peace of Fontainebleau the _Havannah_ was restored to Spain, +in exchange for the province of Florida, on the continent of America; +and in 1763 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment proceeded to _West Florida_. + +[Sidenote: 1764] + +[Sidenote: 1765] + +The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year 1764, and in +1765 it was relieved from duty in that province, and embarked for +Great Britain. + +[Sidenote: 1766] + +[Sidenote: 1770] + +[Sidenote: 1772] + +[Sidenote: 1773] + +From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at various stations in +England; during the years 1770, 1771, and 1772, it performed duty in +Scotland; and in 1773 it proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1775] + +While the TWENTY-SECOND were stationed in Ireland the +misunderstanding between the English government and the British +provinces in North America, on the subject of taxation, was followed +by hostilities. The regiment embarked from Ireland for North America +in 1775, and joined the troops at Boston under General Gage. + +During the night of the 16th of June the Americans commenced +fortifying the heights on the peninsula of Charlestown, called +_Bunker's Hill_; and on the following day they were attacked by the +flank companies of the British corps, and by a few regiments, and +driven from their works. The TWENTY-SECOND lost their commanding +officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who died of his wounds. He +was succeeded by Major James Campbell. + +[Sidenote: 1776] + +General Sir William Howe assumed the command of the British troops in +North America, on General Gage returning to England in October, 1775; +in March, 1776, Boston was vacated, when the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded +to Nova Scotia. + +From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition to Staten +Island, near New York; and, additional troops having arrived from +Europe, it was formed in brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth, +and Sixty-third, under Brigadier-General Francis Smith. + +A landing was effected on _Long Island_ on the 22nd of August; and +on the 27th of that month the TWENTY-SECOND were engaged in driving +the Americans from their positions at _Flat Bush_ to their fortified +lines at _Brooklyn_. The flank companies had several men killed and +wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion companies was +limited to two men. + +The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and passed the +river to New York. They were followed by the British, who gained +possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced a great +part of the Jerseys. + +During the winter the regiment was detached, with several other +corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and Earl Percy, against _Rhode +Island_. The regiment embarked on this service in the beginning of +December, and a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that +month, the island was speedily reduced to submission. + +[Sidenote: 1777] + +During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in Rhode Island. +On the 10th of July the American Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode +Island with a few active men, surprised Major-General Richard +Prescott in his quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner. + +[Sidenote: 1778] + +In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General Sullivan had +taken the command of the American troops at Providence, with the +view of making a descent on Rhode Island; and on the night of the +24th of May the battalion companies of the TWENTY-SECOND, the flank +companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians, embarked +under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the TWENTY-SECOND, to attack the +enemy's quarters. After landing three miles below _Warren_, early +on the following morning, a detachment under Captain Seir of the +TWENTY-SECOND destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a +Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another detachment +destroyed a number of boats, a galley of six twelve pounders, and two +sloops, in the Kickamuct River. The party then marched to Warren, +destroyed a park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer +sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further quantity of stores +was destroyed. The Americans assembled in great numbers, and fired on +the British from a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant +HAMILTON of the TWENTY-SECOND, eight British, and four Hessian +soldiers were wounded. + +On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major Eyre of the +Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to a creek near Taunton +River, and inflicted a severe loss on the Americans. + +The King of France having united with the Americans, a French +armament arrived off the coast, and formidable preparations were +made for the re-capture of Rhode Island. The French fleet, however, +sustained some severe losses from a storm, and from the English +navy. A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan landed +at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and commenced the siege +of _Newport_, in defence of which place the TWENTY-SECOND were +employed. The place being defended with great resolution, and +the Americans being disappointed of aid from the French fleet, +they raised the siege, and retired on the 29th of August. The +TWENTY-SECOND, Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth +and Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General Smith, by +the east road, to intercept the retreating enemy. A stand was made +by the Americans, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the +TWENTY-SECOND, under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished +themselves. The Americans were driven from _Quakers' Hill_, when they +fell back to their works at the north end of the island, from which +they afterwards withdrew. Major-General Pigot stated in his public +despatch,--"To these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add +Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the general tribute +due to the good conduct of every individual under his command, +has particularly distinguished Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL and the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, on whom, by their position, the greatest +weight of the action fell." The regiment had eleven rank and file +killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two +serjeants, and forty-eight rank and file wounded; one man missing. + +[Sidenote: 1779] + +The British Commander-in-Chief in North America, Lieut.-General Sir +Henry Clinton, having resolved to vacate Rhode Island, the regiment +embarked from thence on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to +New York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month. + +[Sidenote: 1780] + +During the remainder of the American War the regiment was stationed +at New York and the posts in advance of that city. + +[Sidenote: 1782] + +General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed to the Seventeenth +Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and King George III. conferred the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment on Major-General Charles +O'Hara, from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards. + +A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to the +regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be designated the +TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE regiment, in order that a connexion +between the corps and that county should be cultivated, with the view +of promoting the success of the recruiting service. + +[Sidenote: 1783] + +The American War having terminated, the regiment returned to Europe +in 1783 and was stationed in South Britain. + +[Sidenote: 1785] + +In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor, under the +command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and furnished the usual guard +at the Castle, where his Majesty resided, an "ORDER OF MERIT" was +instituted in the corps, with the view of promoting good order and +discipline,--the field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time +being, to be members of the order. The order consisted of THREE +CLASSES: the first wore a silver medal gilt, suspended to a blue +riband two inches broad, and worn round the neck; the second a silver +medal, and the third a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates +for the third class must have served seven years with an unblemished +character; for the second, fourteen; and for the first, twenty-one +years. On the 1st of July, the KING was graciously pleased to accept +from Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie a medal of the first class of the +regimental ORDER OF MERIT: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment +being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on parade, with the +non-commissioned officers and soldiers selected to receive medals in +front, the rules of the order were read; the corps presented arms, +the band played "God save the King;" the members of the order took +off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each member with +his medal; the drums beating a point of war during the whole time. + +[Sidenote: 1787] + +In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and Jersey, where its +establishment was augmented; and it was ordered to be held in +readiness for foreign service, in consequence of some revolutionary +proceedings in Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to +Portsmouth, and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced. +Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of the +Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct. + +[Sidenote: 1788] + +On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the regiment received a +very flattering mark of the high estimation in which its conduct was +held by the inhabitants. + +[Sidenote: 1790] + +The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring of 1790, and +proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on the 5th of April. + +[Sidenote: 1791] + +Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the Seventy-fourth +Highlanders in April, 1791, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of +the Army in Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1792] + +In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform, and the +establishment was augmented. + +[Sidenote: 1793] + +Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France, and the violent +conduct of the republican government in that country occasioned a +war between Great Britain and France, which commenced in 1793. In +September of that year the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose of taking part +in the capture of the French West India islands. They were followed +by the battalion companies in December. + +[Sidenote: 1794] + +The flank companies joined the armament under General Sir Charles +(afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing at three different +points on the island of _Martinique_, in February, 1794, and +accomplished in a short period the conquest of that valuable colony. + +The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness Prince Edward, +afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the light infantry under +Major-General Dundas, were engaged in the conquest of _St. Lucia_ in +the beginning of April. + +After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on _Guadaloupe_, +and that valuable island was speedily rescued from the power of the +republican government of France. + +The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique, where it was +joined by the flank companies. + +Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Lysaght, proceeded to +the island of _St. Domingo_, and formed part of the garrison of +Cape St. Nicholas Mole: and five companies joined the garrison of +_Busy-town_, which place was besieged by the enemy. + +In April, the TWENTY-SECOND, Twenty-third, and Forty-first +regiments, with some other troops, embarked under the command of +Brigadier-General John Whyte, for the attack of _Port-au-Prince_, the +capital of the French possessions in the island of _St. Domingo_. +A landing was effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting +occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND distinguished themselves: +_Fort Bizzotton_ was captured, and the enemy was forced to abandon +_Port-au-Prince_, which was taken possession of by the British +troops. The regiment had Captain Wallace killed on this occasion, +also several private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a +malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British lost forty +officers and six hundred soldiers by disease within two months after +the capture of the place. + +A detachment of the regiment formed part of the garrison of _Fort +Bizzotton_, which was attacked by two thousand of the enemy on +the 5th of December. The British defended their post with great +gallantry, and repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the +TWENTY-SECOND distinguished himself. + +Another portion of the regiment was stationed at Jeremie, and a +detachment at Irois. + +[Sidenote: 1795] + +Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St. Domingo, the +regiment was relieved from duty at that island, and returned to +England in 1795. + +Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons, and +the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND was conferred on Major-General +William Crosbie, from the Eighty-ninth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1798] + +The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its ranks until +December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey. + +Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded by +Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the Eighty-first regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1799] + +In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from Guernsey, and +landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that month. + +On its return from the West Indies, the regiment enlisted a number +of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it received drafts of boys, or lads, +from other corps; it was designated a boy regiment, and sent to the +Cape of Good Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be +gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become better adapted for +service in the East Indies, than recruits sent direct from Europe to +India. + +[Sidenote: 1800] + +In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked for the Cape of +Good Hope, where it arrived in May and June following. The companies +on board of one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in +consequence of their crowded state: the crew was composed of Lascars, +among whom much disease prevailed; the infection was communicated +to the soldiers, and the men of the TWENTY-SECOND suffered in their +health; sixty soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital, +before the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape in +a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working the vessel +during the voyage, and the masts and rigging had been damaged during +a gale of wind. + +[Sidenote: 1801] + +The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg, and afterwards +encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land projecting from the east side +of Table Mountain. The sick men received every attention which could +be procured by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the Cape, +and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters, which were +removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801, and again encamped at +Wynberg in March. In May the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in +September joined the camp at Rondebosch. + +The lads having become much improved in size and strength, the light +infantry company joined the flank battalion; and the grenadiers were +detached to the interior, and stationed at Graaff Reinett. + +[Sidenote: 1802] + +Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was removed to +Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett. + +The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed to India, it +was joined by a number of volunteers from corps serving at the Cape +of Good Hope, and embarked from thence in September, October, and +November, when it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and +fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for duty. + +[Sidenote: 1803] + +In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment landed at Fort +William, Calcutta, where the other companies had previously arrived. + +At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao Scindia and +Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers of the Peishwa, and were +desolating the Mahratta states with war; and these two chiefs, +with the Rajah of Berar, formed a confederacy against the British +and their allies. Under these circumstances the flank companies +of the regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the field +force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for the attack of +the province of Cuttack. On entering that province, the troops had +to overcome numerous difficulties from the nature of the country, +the season of the year, and the resistance of the enemy, which they +surmounted with great gallantry. + +On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment highly distinguished themselves at the capture of the fort +of _Barrabatta_ by storm, when they led the assault, and took several +of the enemy's colours. They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and +eight soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the TWENTY-SECOND, +with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth Native Infantry, +were publicly displayed at Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort +William, with an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken. + +[Sidenote: 1804] + +The flank companies of the regiment remained in the field, and the +splendid successes of the British arms appeared likely to bring about +a speedy termination of the war; but hostilities were protracted +by the defection of the Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of +the TWENTY-SECOND joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two men +killed and three wounded at the capture of _Deeg_, in December, and +were engaged in the attempt to bring the refractory Rajah Sing to +submission by the siege of the strong fortress of Bhurtpore. + +[Sidenote: 1805] + +In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its march from Fort +William, for the Upper provinces, and in January, 1805, it halted and +encamped at Benares; but resumed its march in February, and proceeded +to Cawnpore. + +The siege of _Bhurtpore_ was carried on, and the flank companies +were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to capture that place +by storm on the 9th of January, when they had eleven men killed +and twenty-four wounded. They were also engaged in the desperate +attempt to capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when +they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains Lindsay and +McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman, and Caswell, and thirty-one +non-commissioned officers and soldiers, wounded. At the third +unsuccessful attack, on the 21st of February, they had two serjeants +and three soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded. + +Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn hope on each +occasion, and his gallant conduct was rewarded with the commission +of ensign in the Sixty-fifth regiment. + +Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace with the +British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore, and the surviving officers +and soldiers of the flank companies joined the regiment at Cawnpore, +in June. + +Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority, and Scindia +evinced a disposition to renew hostilities. These events occasioned +the regiment to quit Cawnpore, in October, to pursue the army of +Holkar, who was driven from place to place, until the British troops +arrived at the banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted, +and a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia also +concluded a second treaty, and the British power and influence in +India were thus augmented and consolidated. + +[Sidenote: 1806] + +From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched to Delhi, where +it arrived in February, 1806, and in March it was removed to Muttra, +where it received the thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the +Governor-General in Council, for its conduct during the war. + +On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in 1806, was +succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by Lieut.-General Sir +James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth foot. + +[Sidenote: 1807] + +Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded to Berhampore, +where it arrived on the 7th of August. + +[Sidenote: 1809] + +Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed colonel of +the regiment on the 18th of September, 1809, from the Fifty-fourth +foot, in succession to Sir James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the +Seventy-eighth Highlanders. + +[Sidenote: 1810] + +The regiment remained at Berhampore until August, 1810, when it +embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort William, in order to form +part of the expedition against the _Mauritius_, under Major-General +the Honorable J. Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of +Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition, and on the +following day the troops advanced towards the capital; being exposed +to severe heat, and unable to procure water, the soldiers became +exhausted, and arriving at the powder-mills, five miles from Port +Louis, they halted near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of +December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in force, and some +sharp fighting occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND took part and had +several men wounded. The French were driven from their ground, and +they fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front of the +position occupied by the French. Being unable to withstand the valour +and discipline of the invading army, the governor, General de Caen, +surrendered the island to the British arms. + +[Sidenote: 1811] + +After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was stationed a +short time at that island, and in January it sent a detachment +of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave, in the Island of +Madagascar. In March and April the regiment was removed to the island +of Bourbon, where it was joined by the survivors of the detachment +from Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers and +twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by the enemy, and +re-captured by the British ships of war. + +[Sidenote: 1812] + +[Sidenote: 1813] + +In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius; but again +proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was removed to the Mauritius a +second time in May, 1813. + +[Sidenote: 1814] + +[Sidenote: 1815] + +A number of men having volunteered from the militia to the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was +pleased to approve of a _second battalion_ being formed, and it was +placed on the establishment of the army on the 10th of February, +1814. The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by the +abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration of the Bourbon +dynasty to the throne of France, the second battalion was disbanded +at Chester, on the 24th of October, transferring the men fit for duty +to the first battalion, which they joined at the Mauritius, in April, +1815, in so good a state, as to be specially noticed in general +orders, and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party, received the +thanks of the governor. + +On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first battalion +of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first battalion of the +Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, were formed into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June +embarked from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The troops +arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August; re-embarked on +the 23rd of September, and landed at the Mauritius on the 14th of +November, 1815. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, +while on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between Ceylon +and the opposite continent. The conduct of the flank companies, while +in India, was highly commended in general orders issued before they +embarked from Fort William,--on their return to the Mauritius. + +While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder of the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment was placed under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven +miles from Port Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing +disease at the Mauritius. There being but a small force left on +the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency by disease, +a meditated insurrection had nearly attained an outbreak, but for +timely information. + +[Sidenote: 1819] + +The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius, under the +command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July, 1819, when it embarked +for England. Previous to quitting the island it was inspected by +Major-General Ralph Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his +admiration of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while +serving under his command. + +Though the TWENTY-SECOND had participated in the capture of the +Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the island presented a large +and handsome gold snuff-box to the regiment on its embarkation for +England, bearing this inscription, "_Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment +de S. M.--Souvenir des Habitans de l'île Maurice_; 1819;" thus +testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly and +soldierlike conduct of the corps during its service of nine years in +the colony. + +After landing at Gosport, in November and December, the regiment +marched to Northampton, under the orders of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough, +K.C.B. + +[Sidenote: 1821] + +In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to Liverpool, where +it embarked on the 9th of October, for Ireland. Having landed at +Dublin on the 10th of October, the regiment marched to Buttevant, +with detachments at Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and +Ballyclough. + +Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in consequence of the +riotous and violent proceedings of the misguided peasantry at this +part of the country, and the disposition evinced to violate the law. + +[Sidenote: 1822] + +On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three thousand men +assembled with such arms as they could procure, for an attack on +Newmarket; and they were repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men +of the regiment, under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel +Green, who received the expression of the approbation of His Royal +Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, and were presented +with a silver cup, by the noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of +the town and vicinity of Newmarket,--"In testimony of the high sense +entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and defeating an +armed body of three thousand insurgents, with thirty men." + +A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the regiment performed +many marches, and much extra duty, in consequence of the disturbed +state of the country. + +[Sidenote: 1823] + +[Sidenote: 1824] + +The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at Buttevant during +the year 1823, and the first nine months of 1824; and the state +of the regiment was repeatedly commended in orders by the General +Officers who made the half-yearly inspections. + +[Sidenote: 1826] + +In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it was subsequently +stationed in Galway, and in the summer of 1826 it was divided into +six service and four depôt companies, in order that the former might +proceed on foreign service. + +The service companies embarked from Cork in November and December, +in three divisions, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major +James Steuart, and Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division +arrived at the island of Jamaica in February, 1827. + +[Sidenote: 1827] + +The service companies suffered severely from the effects of the +climate of Jamaica; in September and October, 1827, they lost three +officers, seventeen serjeants, and one hundred and twenty men, from +fever; the total loss during the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P. +C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant +Edward Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant +William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two non-commissioned +officers and soldiers. + +[Sidenote: 1828] + +[Sidenote: 1829] + +In the following year the losses were much less numerous; and in +April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar arrived and assumed the +command. In June of the same year, the regiment received the thanks +of the civil authorities for the prompt assistance rendered in +extinguishing an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town. + +[Sidenote: 1830] + +On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked from Cork for +South Britain, where they were stationed until the summer of 1836, +when they embarked from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin. + +[Sidenote: 1831] + +The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable insurrection +among the slaves in Jamaica in the winter of 1831-2; the two flank +companies were encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the +following winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in Jamaica, +in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks of the custos and +magistrates were awarded to the corps for its good conduct.[8] + +[Sidenote: 1837] + +The service companies performed duty at the island of Jamaica until +the beginning of 1837, when they commenced embarking for Europe, and +landed at Cork in March and April; they were afterwards joined by the +depôt companies. + +[Sidenote: 1838] + +[Sidenote: 1839] + +[Sidenote: 1840] + +The regiment remained in Ireland during the years 1838 and 1839; +and embarking from Dublin on the 19th of December, 1840, landed at +Liverpool on the 21st of that month. + +[Sidenote: 1841] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment, having been selected to proceed to +India, embarked from Gravesend in January, 1841, and landed at +Bombay in May following. It afterwards proceeded to Poonah, where an +encampment was formed, and the regiment was stationed there during +the remainder of the year. + +[Sidenote: 1842] + +In the following year the regiment quitted the camp at Poonah by +divisions, and proceeding to the country of Scinde, was encamped +some time near Kurrachee. The regiment was encamped in two separate +divisions at Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its +ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its prevalence +a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole, consisting of two +companies, was ordered to proceed by the Indus, in the month of +April, 1842, to Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal +of the British force from Beloochistan. + +The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the British in 1839, +and application was made to the Ameers, who governed the country, +for a portion of land on the banks of the river. This they agreed to +give; but at the same time meditated the destruction of the British +power in the country by treachery. The TWENTY-SECOND quitted the camp +at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the country. + +[Sidenote: 1843] + +The regiment formed part of the force assembled under Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in the destruction of the fort +of _Emaum Ghur_, in the desert, on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843. + +Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled "_The Conquest +of Scinde_," has given, with his characteristic eloquence, the +following spirited description of the march to _Emaum Ghur_, a march +which His Grace the Duke of Wellington described in the House of +Lords, "_as one of the most curious military feats he had ever known +to be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life. +Sir Charles Napier_ (added His Grace) _moved his troops through +the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns transported +under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and in a manner the most +extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat of the enemy which rendered +it impossible for them ever to regain their positions_." + +"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness through which +they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were passing. The sand-hills stretched +north and south for hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at +top, and most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore +after a placid tide. Varying in their heights, their breadth and +steepness, they presented one uniform surface, but while some were +only a mile broad, others were more than ten miles across; some +were of gentle slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the +howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The sand was mingled with +shells, and ran in great streams resembling numerous rivers, skirted +on each side by parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle, +yet thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and wild boar, and +the prints of small deer's footsteps, were sometimes seen at first, +but they soon disappeared, and then the solitude of the waste was +unbroken. + +"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this gloomy region, +living from hand to mouth, uncertain each morning if water could be +found in the evening; and many times it was not found. They were not +even sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and untiring +strength, they continued their dreary dangerous way. The camels found +very little food, and got weak, but the stout infantry helped to +drag the heavy howitzers up the sandy steeps; and all the troops, +despising the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked with a +power and will that overcame every obstacle. On the eighth day they +reached _Emaum Ghur_, eager to strike and storm, and then was seen +how truly laid down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in +war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan, with a strong +fortress well provided, and having a garrison six times as numerous +as the band coming to assail him, had fled with his treasure two days +before; taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by tracks +with which his people were well acquainted, leaving all his stores of +grain and powder behind." + +As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in which the +Beloochees might be able to resist British supremacy, Major-General +Sir Charles Napier determined upon destroying the fortress. It was +a place of great strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks, +into which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing down, so +that recourse was had to mining. The place was full of gunpowder and +grain, and the former was employed in blowing up the fortress, which +was effected on the 15th of January. + +After this difficult and harassing service, the troops returned +triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr, where +Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited his whole army. It is to be +observed that the march was performed without the loss of a man, or +without even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed, +and their plan of campaign frustrated. + +A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the 14th of February: +directions were sent to the British political resident, Major Outram, +by the Ameers, to quit _Hyderabad_, the capital, and before this was +complied with, _eight thousand_ Beloochees, commanded by several +Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into the enclosure +of the British residency. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, mustering _one hundred_ men, under Captain T. S. Conway, +Lieutenant F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only +force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded by a +wall from four to five feet high. The gallant officers and soldiers +of this company kept the eight thousand Scindian troops, with six +pieces of artillery, at bay nearly four hours; and when their +ammunition was nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with +Major Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels, joined the +troops under Major-General Sir Charles Napier, at Hala. The light +company had two men killed and four wounded on this occasion. + +The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled a numerous +force to destroy the few British troops in the country. Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, trusting to the valour of the troops under +his orders, advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February, +_twenty-two thousand_ Scindian troops were discovered in position +behind the bank of a river at _Meeanee_. The British, mustering _two +thousand eight hundred_ men, advanced in _echelon_ of regiments to +attack their numerous opponents, and the TWENTY-SECOND, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead the attack. A +numerous body of Beloochees discharged their matchlocks and pistols +at the TWENTY-SECOND, and then rushed forward sword in hand to close +upon the British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went down +under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. + +After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated, and, on the +day following the victory, six of the Ameers delivered their swords +to the British General upon the field of battle. The Beloochees +lost five thousand men, and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure +were taken, together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of +February, the British colours waved in triumph over the fortress of +_Hyderabad_. + +In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "_The Conquest of +Scinde_," is given the following spirited and picturesque description +of the battle of MEEANEE:-- + +"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and covered by the +village of Kattree, which was filled with men; that flank offered no +weak point. But in the Shikargah on their left the General instantly +detected a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was covered +by a wall, having only one opening, not very wide, through which it +was evident the Beloochees meant to pour out on the flank and rear +of the advancing British line. The General rode near this wall, and +found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer, and marked it +had no loop-holes for the enemy to shoot through; he rode into the +opening under a play of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall, +saw there was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over +the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the aid of heroism. +Taking a company of the TWENTY-SECOND, he thrust them at once into +the opening, telling their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block +up that entrance; to die there, if it must be,--never to give way! +And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he died there, but +the opening was defended. The great disparity of numbers was thus +abated, and the action of six thousand men paralysed by the more +skilful action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to +numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won Blenheim for the +Duke of Marlborough. + +[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + +FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS. + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._] + +"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments, approached the +enemy's front. The British right passed securely under the wall of +the Shikargah, cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling sound +of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the dead level of the plain was +swept by the Beloochee cannon and matchlocks, which were answered +from time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for +rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to close with their +unseen foes. When the TWENTY-SECOND had got within a hundred yards +of the high sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at +the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees could be just +seen, bending with fiery glances over the levelled matchlocks, and +the voice of the General, shrill and clear, was heard along the line, +commanding the charge. + +"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were run forward into +position, the infantry closed upon the Fulaillee with a run, and +rushed up the sloping bank. The Beloochees, having their matchlocks +laid ready in rest along the summit, waited until the assailants +were within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the rapid +pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope on the inside, +deceived their aim, and the execution was not great; the next moment +the TWENTY-SECOND were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear +down all before them, but they staggered back in amazement at the +forest of swords waving in their front! Thick as standing corn, +and gorgeous as a field of flowers, stood the Beloochees in their +many-coloured garments and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed +of the Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered the +plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their large dark shields, +they shook their sharp swords, beaming in the sun, their shouts +rolled like a peal of thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed +forwards, and full against the front of the TWENTY-SECOND dashed with +demoniac strength and ferocity. But with shouts as loud, and shrieks +as wild and fierce as theirs, and hearts as big, and arms as strong, +the Irish soldiers met them with that queen of weapons the musket, +and sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood." + +The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General Sir Charles +Napier testify the part borne by the TWENTY-SECOND in the victory of +MEEANEE:-- + +"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely wounded as with the +high courage of a soldier he led his regiment (TWENTY-SECOND) up +the desperate bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains Tucker +and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and Phayre, were all wounded, while +gloriously animating their men to sustain the shock of numbers." + +"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant Wood, all fell +honorably, urging on the assault with unmitigated valour. + +"Major Poole, of the TWENTY-SECOND, and Captain Jackson of the +Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded to the command of those +regiments, proved themselves worthy of their dangerous posts. + +"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, Lieutenant McMurdo, of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, had his horse killed, and, while on foot +leading some soldiers in a desperate dash down the enemy's side of +the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has greatly assisted me by his +activity and zeal during the whole of our operations. + +"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity which took place +between our soldiers and their opponents, too numerous for detail in +this despatch, yet well meriting a record." + +In the NOTIFICATION of the Right Honorable Lord Ellenborough, the +Governor-General of India, it was directed, + +"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad, shall be sent +to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal column, whereon shall +be inscribed in the English, and two native languages, the names +of Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several +officers mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and likewise +the names of the several officers, non-commissioned officers, and +privates mentioned in the reports, that thus the names may be for +ever recorded of those who, at MEEANEE, obtained for themselves that +glory in the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier." + +Major Poole, commanding the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, in consequence +of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather having been severely wounded, +stated in his report, respecting the soldiers of the regiment +under his command, who had distinguished themselves in the battle +of Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they feel +difficulty in making selections, where the conduct of every man of +their companies was so satisfactory. In so general a field of action +and persevering exertion, I equally feel at a loss where to draw a +distinction; but it may be proper to mention the names of Private +James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a standard whilst we +were actively engaged with the enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who +shot, bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee Mahomed Khan, +who was mounted, and directing the enemy in the hottest part of the +engagement." + +The loss of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment at the battle of Meeanee +was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,[9] one serjeant, and twenty-two rank +and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, Captain T. S. +Conway, Lieutenants W. M. G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R. +Pennefather and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and fifty +privates wounded. + +The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs who continued +to resist assembled an army, which was commanded by Meer Shere +Mahomed. The British advanced from _Hyderabad_ at daybreak on the +morning of the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock +twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order of battle +behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately made for commencing +the action, and the TWENTY-SECOND regiment led the attack in gallant +style. Major John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D. +George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic example of these +officers, the TWENTY-SECOND advanced steadily against the enemy's +left, exposed to a heavy fire of matchlocks, without returning a +shot, until they arrived within forty paces of the entrenchment, +when they stormed the position occupied by the Beloochees with that +determined bravery which has ever distinguished British soldiers. +Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the rampart, seized one of +the enemy's standards, and was severely wounded while in the act of +waving it, and cheering on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized +another standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant +example of their officers, displayed that heroism which adorns the +British military character. Privates J. Doherty, C. Lynar, E. Jobin, +J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G. Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot +the defenders, and then captured fourteen standards, and made five +prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury also captured +standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot one of the Scindians, and +took from him a silver-knobbed standard. The Beloochee infantry and +artillery fought well, but were unable, although greatly superior in +numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined soldiers. + +Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public despatch, "The +battle was decided by the troop of Horse Artillery, and Her Majesty's +TWENTY-SECOND regiment. + +"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant +Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too highly; and regret to say, +he has received a sabre wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut +down in single combat during the day. + +"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and the officers, +non-commissioned officers, and privates under their command, I have +to return my thanks for their valiant bearing in the action." + +The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven pieces of cannon +were taken in position on the nullah, together with seventeen +standards. The Beloochee force was completely defeated, and their +commander, Meer Shere Mahomed, fled to the desert.[10] Among the +killed was the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee. +Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed on this +occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J. Coote, H. A. G. Evans, +and John Brennan, Ensign Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one +drummer, four corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates +wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment mustered only five +hundred and sixty-two rank and file; the remainder being sick and +convalescent, having been left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde. + +As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories, Her Majesty, +on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint Major-General Sir +Charles James Napier a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable +Military Order of the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,[11] +Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George, and +Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions of the Bath, and their +brevet rank was dated from the above period. + +Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command that a medal +should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and +Soldiers engaged in the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad. + +On the 18th of August, 1843, the TWENTY-SECOND received the Royal +authority to bear upon the regimental or second colour, and on +the appointments, the word "SCINDE," in commemoration of its +distinguished gallantry in the campaign against the Ameers of that +country, during the early part of the year 1843. + +Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred increased honor on +the TWENTY-SECOND, by authorising the corps to bear on the regimental +colour and appointments, in addition to the word "SCINDE," the words +"MEEANEE" and "HYDERABAD," in commemoration of the distinguished +gallantry displayed in the general engagements fought at those places +respectively, on the 17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843. + +On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament were voted to +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B., and to the troops under his +command, "_for the eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by +him in the recent military operations in_ SCINDE, _particularly in +the two decisive battles of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD;" to the several +officers serving under Sir Charles Napier, "_for their unwearied zeal +and conspicuous gallantry_;" and to the troops, "_for their brave and +meritorious conduct_." + +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the regiments at +Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them for their gallantry in +this campaign, addressed the soldiers as follows:-- + +"Soldiers! the Battle of _Meeanee_ is among those of which history +will speak as proving the superiority of _discipline_ over numbers; +and it is well, Soldiers! that we should dwell upon these things; +that we may understand how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed. + +"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would not have won the +victories of _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_! Valour is like the _Strength_ +of a man, Discipline is like his _Mind_, that directs his strength +to effective exertion. If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one +strikes at random, while the other boxes with science, planting every +blow home, we know how the fight must be soon decided. So it is with +two armies,--the one disciplined, the other without discipline. The +General of the disciplined Army directs his columns upon that part of +the enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as the mind +of the boxer directs his blow against the opening offered by his +unskilful enemy. But this is not all,--obedience to orders (which +is discipline) enables us to bring up all the necessary provisions +of war to the day and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at +hand to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and the +body are thrown forward to support and give vigour to the blow of +the pugilist. But not only is valour useless without discipline, +but it is even dangerous; for without discipline the rashly brave +would run heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek +'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus the Army would be +scattered: but when an Army is disciplined, the ponderous charges +of Cavalry, the steady tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing +to charge with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery +pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously to strike +and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers, are Medals won, more by +discipline than by any extraordinary efforts of individual courage. +To reward this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man who +wears this honoured badge is known to the world as one who, in the +midst of the noise, the danger, and confusion of battle, had obeyed +orders, and performed the three great duties of a Soldier--first, not +to fire without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so as +to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to keep his rank and +dress upon his colours. The Medal tells the world that he has bravely +done these things, and no man can walk with one of these Medals +on his breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid +Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be low caste, but the +Soldier, who bears on his breast a medal won in battle, is above all +the castes in the world. The pleasure of giving you these Medals, +Soldiers of the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to +me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing the +reward which you honorably earned, and my satisfaction is increased +by the presence of so large a body of Europeans, for it affords me +an opportunity of saying to my countrymen that they will find these +swarthy warriors of the East staunch and true in action as they were +at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed the example set them by +the glorious TWENTY-SECOND regiment. They will fight to the last +drop of their blood, and stand or fall by the side of their European +comrades. If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times, +War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted to lead an +Army into the field, I should go into action with perfect confidence +in the courage of the Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their +gallantry, not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and from +my own knowledge, of their daring courage. + +"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner to the Officers +now before me, and in justice to them say, that their conduct, and +the conduct of all the British Officers in these two battles, was +very noble. For several hours the two lines were fighting close to +each other, and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw +the British Officers display their worthiness as Military leaders, +and with unflinching intrepidity animating their Soldiers to battle! +To them, therefore, I will now first distribute these honorable +decorations." + +The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the line of officers +of several regiments, and who had not before received their medals, +his Excellency presented each with the Medal,--the bands playing "God +save the Queen." + +On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston, of the 25th +N. I., the General observed,--"But for you, Marston, I probably +should not have had this pleasure;" alluding to this Officer having +intrepidly thrown himself in front of his General when attacked by a +Beloochee Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach the +General. + +On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and proceeded to +Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters embarked on the +27th of April, and sailed to Bombay. Previously to the embarkation +of the regiment for Bombay, the following order was issued by +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:-- + + "_27th April, 1843._ + + "TWENTY-SECOND Regiment! + + "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and you also know how much + I dislike doing so. But nothing shall stand in the way of your + health and well-being, that I have the power to remove. Cut up by + Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may again join + us, and add to the Laurels with which you are already decorated. + + "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_, + _Governor_." + +The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd of May, was +distinguished by high marks of honor, by command of the Governor, on +which occasion the accompanying order was issued:-- + + "_Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843._ + + "GARRISON ORDERS. + + "By the Honorable the Governor.--The Head-Quarters of Her Majesty's + TWENTY-SECOND Regiment of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be + disembarked to-morrow morning at sunrise. + + "On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the + Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of honor to this + distinguished Corps, will himself receive it at the Apollo Pier. + + "On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute is to be + fired from the Saluting Battery. + + "The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn up in Review + Order, in a convenient position, and will salute Her Majesty's + TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as it passes on its way to Fort George + Barracks. + + "His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military Officers at + the Presidency who may not be sick, or engaged on other duty. + + "The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to carry out the above + order. + + "BRUCE SETON, _Major_, + _Town Major_." + +The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration of the +gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a public banquet to the +Officers of the corps; and the inhabitants of Bombay, including the +Civil Authorities, raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to +the benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and orphans, by +the Campaign in Scinde. + +The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, and proceeded +from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on the 23rd of May. The right +wing and head-quarters arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of +June. + +General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th of October, 1843, +and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Major-General Sir +Charles James Napier, K.C.B. + +[Sidenote: 1844] + +On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment marched from +Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the 19th the whole moved together +for Field Service in the Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost +two officers, and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by +cholera. + +A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the north pettah +under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the 27th of November; on +the 28th, 29th, and 30th of November the regiment, under the command +of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment +of _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_, and on the 1st of December was at +the capture of those forts, the latter of which was taken by the +regiment. During these operations the TWENTY-SECOND formed part of +the third brigade of the force employed under Major-General Delamotte. + +On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment marched, and joined +the first brigade on service in the Sawunt-Warree district; the other +wing remained near Kolapore. + +On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment arrived at +Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the first brigade of the Field +Force in the Sawunt-Warree country, and was employed in investing +the forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the +operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades in the +densely wooded country between Susseedroog and the Forts. + +[Sidenote: 1845] + +The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; on the 17th of +January, 1845, part of the wing descended the Elephant rock with +other troops, and took the village of Seevapore, in the Concan, close +under Fort Monuhurr, where one man was killed and seven wounded. The +whole of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or heights +above, and part in the Concan close under the forts, investing them +from the 17th to the 26th of January, during which period the forts +were constantly shelled by the British artillery, the enemy from the +forts firing their great guns and musketry. + +On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated the forts +unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, leaving the forts in +the possession of the Anglo-Indian army. + +The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th of February, +escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. The regiment was +employed in doing duty over about six hundred prisoners until its +recall to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, +and arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845. + +A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank and file, +under the command of Captain Souter, marched from Poonah for Bombay +on the 25th of December, 1845. + +[Sidenote: 1846] + +The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command of +Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting of five +companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay on the 15th of August, 1846, +and joined the wing of the TWENTY-SECOND at that station. The march +was performed in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain +consequently falling nearly the whole of the way. + +The regiment remained together at Bombay, having six companies +at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until the 14th of November, +1846, when the head-quarters, with five of the companies which were +stationed at Colaba, were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever +of a malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every soldier +at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in less than two months; +the casualties were very numerous. + +[Sidenote: 1847] + +[Sidenote: 1848] + +The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched from Bombay +on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived at Poonah on the 21st of +January. During the year 1848 the regiment continued to be stationed +at Poonah. + +[Sidenote: 1849] + +On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded to Bombay, and +was subsequently stationed at Colaba. The left wing, consisting of +four companies, embarked for Kurrachee on the 24th of January. + +In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has been extended, the +regiment remained at Colaba, and consisted of fifty-three serjeants, +nineteen drummers, and 1042 rank and file, under the command of +Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau +being in command of the Poonah brigade. + + +1849. + + +[Illustration: BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE, +BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17^{TH} FEBRUARY 1843. + +SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF MEEANEE AND +HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843. + +_For Cannon's Military Records._ + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._] + + + _Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of_ + MEEANEE, _on the 17th of February, 1843._ + +The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was taken at +the Battle of _Meeanee_, on the 17th of February, 1843, by Private +James O'Neill of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as narrated at page 35 +of the Historical Record. The Standard is triangular; the longest +side is about seven feet in length, and the other sides measure each +about five feet. The Staff is nine feet in length. + +The Standards captured at the Battle of _Hyderabad_, on the 24th of +March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do not afford a +just idea of the Army which they may be supposed to have led on. No +person, on viewing these Trophies, would suppose the Beloochee Army, +to which they belonged, to have been composed of men so gallant and +so formidable; so well armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, +as the Scindian troops proved themselves in these battles. + + + _Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of the + Victories of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD, _and conferred on the + Officers and Men engaged in those Battles._ + +On the obverse; the bust of HER MAJESTY, with the inscription +"VICTORIA REGINA." + +On the reverse; the words "MEEANEE," "HYDERABAD," "1843," enclosed +within branches of Laurel, and surmounted by the Imperial Crown. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[6] Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was +restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It +was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to +Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763. + +[7] The grenadier company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, which had +been incorporated with the "_Louisburg Grenadiers_," formed part of +the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights of Abraham +on the 13th of September, 1759. + +[8] When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented +the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in reference +to the conduct of the regiment,--"I had myself the means of +knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, whilst your +head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally popular, +and their departure generally regretted. During the few pleasant days +I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the flank companies of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment formed a part, I remember upon remarking +to the Major-General there commanding, the perfect good conduct of +all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew better men.'" + +[9] Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by +the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was promoted +Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was appointed ensign +in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, the commissions being dated 18th +February, 1843, the day following the battle of Meeanee. + +[10] The following interesting circumstance is recorded by +Major-General Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, +respecting the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere +Mahomed:-- + +"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the +Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat, +saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of +water; they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins +and struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that +moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the TWENTY-SECOND +came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the +generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their +own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then they +all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the TWENTY-SECOND men's muskets for +them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging them to hold +out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, but soon fell. +It was then discovered that these noble fellows were all wounded, +some deeply, but thinking there was to be another fight, they had +concealed their hurts, and forced nature to sustain the loss of +blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, the long marches, and the +sandy desert, that their last moments might be given to their country +on another field of battle!" + + _Names of men of the_ TWENTY-SECOND _regiment who concealed their + wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with their + regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand._ + +Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, Henry Lines, +Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, James Mulvey, and +Silvester Day. + +[11] Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp to +the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having been +deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing as +a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of +Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained. + +Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, with +Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and becoming +supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth regiment from India +in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, 1848, Colonel Pennefather +was appointed to serve on the Staff of the army in Ireland. + + + + +SUCCESSION OF COLONELS + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + +HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, K.G. + +_Appointed 16th March, 1689._ + +LORD HENRY HOWARD, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, afterwards Duke of +Norfolk, was summoned to parliament in 1678, by the title of Lord +Mowbray: and on the death of Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship +was nominated governor and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden +of the forest of Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and +Surrey. On the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the +dignity of DUKE OF NORFOLK, and of Earl Marshal of England; and in +May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble order of the +Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of the DUKE OF MONMOUTH, +the DUKE OF NORFOLK took great interest in raising a regiment of +foot for the service of King James II., now the twelfth regiment of +foot, of which he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve +of the measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to the +protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the King gave the +DUKE OF NORFOLK the sword of state to carry with him to the Popish +chapel, which he carried as far as the door and then stopped, not +being willing to enter the chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your +father would have gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,--"Your +Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so +far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and joined in the invitation +to the PRINCE OF ORANGE. When the Prince landed, the DUKE OF NORFOLK +was in London, and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for +a free parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk, +declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and some of the +neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. On the elevation +of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his Graced was sworn a member +of the privy council; and afterwards used his interest and influence +in raising a corps of infantry, now the TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, of +which he was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his +commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April 1701. + + +SIR HENRY BELLASIS, KT. + +_Appointed 28th September, 1689._ + +SIR HENRY BELLASIS was educated in strict principles of loyalty and +attachment to monarchical government, and when a youth he suffered +in the royal cause during the usurpation of Cromwell. Soon after the +restoration he was nominated captain of an independent company in +garrison at Hull, of which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) +was appointed governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of +the Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of 1674, Sir +Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and pikemen for the +service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and was engaged +at the siege of Grave in the autumn of that year. He also served +at the siege of Maestricht in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel +in 1677; and in the following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley +in the command of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the +battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and ability, +vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the Prince of +Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was wounded. During +the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, in 1685, he accompanied +his regiment to England; and in 1687 circumstances occurred which +occasioned him to withdraw from the Dutch service; but he preserved +his attachment to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of +Orange. In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, with which corps he served in Ireland +under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He served as brigadier-general +under King William in 1690; was at the battle of the Boyne; and at +the siege of Limerick, where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 +he acquired new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed +bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the reduction +of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, and took +possession of the town on the 26th of July, with his own and two +other regiments of foot. The rank of major-general was conferred +on this distinguished officer in April, 1692, and he commanded a +brigade under King William in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. +He acquired additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; +also in the command of a brigade under King William during the +following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded him +with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious conduct procured him +the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, by whom he was employed +on important services. He commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, +in May, 1695; and a division of the covering army was placed under +his orders during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign +he was appointed president of the general court-martial which tried +the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the enemy, and +sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. He continued to serve +in the Netherlands until the peace of Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained +the colonelcy of the Queen Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in +exchange with Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the +British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been charged +with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, he was tried by +a court-martial and dismissed the service. His reputation was thus +unfortunately tarnished; but his crime does not appear to have been +considered of a heinous nature, as he was subsequently elected a +member of parliament for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen +Anne, in 1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several +particulars respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in +June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He died on the 14th +of December, 1717. + + +WILLIAM SELWYN. + +_Appointed 28th June, 1701._ + +WILLIAM SELWYN served in the army of the United Provinces of the +Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., and afterwards held a +commission under the British crown. In 1688 he was nominated captain +and lieut.-colonel in the second foot guards, with which corps he +served in Flanders, and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy +of the second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke. +He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen on +the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under the eye of +his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, in the summer +of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general during +the siege. He subsequently commanded a brigade of infantry in the +Netherlands, under King William III., who nominated him governor of +the island of Jamaica. He exchanged to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in +1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on the 10th June, +1702. He died in June, 1702. + + +THOMAS HANDASYD. + +_Appointed 20th June, 1702._ + +After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, THOMAS +HANDASYD was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, with which corps he proceeded to the island of Jamaica; +and in June, 1702, Queen Anne promoted him to the colonelcy of the +regiment. He served in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of +brigadier-general in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In +1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in +favour of his non. + + +ROGER HANDASYD. + +_Appointed 3rd April, 1712._ + +This Officer served many years in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, and was +promoted by Queen Anne to the lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which +he commanded some time at the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his +father in the colonelcy of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the +sixteenth foot in 1730,--promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in +1735,--to that of major-general in 1739,--and to lieut.-general in +1743. He died in 1763. + + +WILLIAM BARRELL. + +_Appointed 25th August, 1730._ + +This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; he +obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished conduct +in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the brevet rank of +colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 he was promoted to +the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; in 1727 he was appointed +brigadier-general; in 1730 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, and in 1734 to the King's Own. In the following year +he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of +lieut.-general; and he was also appointed governor of Pendennis +Castle. He died on the 9th of August, 1749. + + +THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR. + +_Appointed 30th October, 1734._ + +THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR entered the army in the reign of Queen +Anne, and served under the celebrated JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. He +was several years an officer in the third foot guards, in which +corps he rose to the commission of major, with the rank of colonel, +and in 1734 King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, from which he was removed, in 1737, to the +first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of major-general; and to that of +lieut.-general in 1745, at which time he was performing the duty of +quartermaster-general in the Netherlands, to the army commanded by +His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year +he commanded an expedition which was originally designed for the +attack of the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, +and afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and the +peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, achieved. +He was subsequently employed on an embassy to the courts of Vienna +and Turin.[12] On the decease of his brother, in 1750, he became +entitled to the dignity of Lord Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he +preferred a seat in the House of Commons, of which he had been many +years a member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 he +was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, in November, +1762. + + +JOHN MOYLE. + +_Appointed 27th June, 1737._ + +JOHN MOYLE entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and served +with reputation under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough; he +rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot, +and in 1708 was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army. At the +peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded. In 1723 King George +I. conferred the colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel +Moyle, who was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, +and to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He died on the 3rd of November, 1738. + + +THOMAS PAGET. + +_Appointed 13th December, 1738._ + +This officer entered the army in the reign of King William III., +and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now seventh +dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the celebrated John +Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, 1710, he was promoted +to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth horse; he was afterwards +lieut.-colonel of the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in +July, 1732, was nominated colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from +which he was removed, in 1738, to the TWENTY-SECOND. In 1739 he was +promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of +May, 1741. + + +RICHARD O'FARRELL. + +_Appointed 12th August, 1741._ + +RICHARD O'FARRELL was nominated ensign in a regiment of foot on +the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation in the wars of +King William III. and of Queen Anne. On the 20th of December, 1722, +he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the ninth foot, and he +performed the duties of commanding officer to that corps many years, +with credit to himself and advantage to the service. On the decease +of Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded the +long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell with the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. In 1746 Colonel O'Farrell +was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1754 to that of +major-general. His decease occurred in 1757. + + +EDWARD WHITMORE. + +_Appointed 11th July, 1757._ + +EDWARD WHITMORE entered the army in the reign of King George II., and +serving with distinction in the wars of the Austrian succession, +was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment +on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed the duty of commanding +officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment with reputation ten years; +and in July, 1757, King George II. rewarded him with the colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general +in America in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade under +Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the descent on Cape +Breton, and at the siege and capture of Louisburg, of which fortress +he was afterwards nominated governor. On the 19th of February, 1761, +he was promoted to the rank of major-general. During the following +winter he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship +was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth, and +Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night, fell overboard +and was drowned. + + +THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE. + +_Appointed 29th March, 1762._ + +THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE, second son of Thomas, first Viscount +Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having served some time in the +subordinate commissions, was appointed major of the Forty-fourth +foot in February, 1747; and he was further promoted to the +lieut.-colonelcy of the regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He +was serving with his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred +between Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the +banks of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the +forces sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to +command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi. +In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General +Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable Thomas Gage +was wounded. He continued to serve in America, where he raised a +provincial regiment, which was numbered the eightieth, light-armed +foot, of which he was appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also +appointed brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the +army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued to form +part of the British dominions from that period. He was promoted +to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in the same year he +performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief in North America, and also +succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth +regiment, which he held two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst +was re-appointed. In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the +TWENTY-SECOND foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the rank +of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between Great Britain +and her North American colonies began to assume a serious aspect, he +was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts +Bay, and he arrived at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced +in the following year, and his active exertions to suppress the +rebellion were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment of +Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned in a few +months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed colonel of the +seventeenth light dragoons; he was promoted to the rank of general +in November following, and in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh +dragoons. He died in 1787. + + +CHARLES O'HARA. + +_Appointed 18th April, 1782._ + +CHARLES O'HARA was appointed cornet in the third dragoons in +December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant and +captain in the second foot guards. He served in Portugal in 1762, +and performed the duties of quartermaster-general to the army under +Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. In 1769 he was promoted to the +rank of captain and lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment +in North America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the rank +of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot guards under +Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; distinguished himself at +the passage of the Catawba river on the 1st of February, 1781; and +was wounded at the battle of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782 +he was nominated to the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment; was +removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was advanced +to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded the British +troops at Toulon, and was wounded and taken prisoner in an action +with the French republican troops on the 30th of November, 1793. His +services were rewarded with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar, +and in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded +that he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and +enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and +accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st of February, +1802. + + +DAVID DUNDAS. + +_Appointed 2nd April, 1791._ + +DAVID DUNDAS was one of the most distinguished officers of the age +in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the principles of +military tactics. He commenced his military education at the age +of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, and at fifteen he assisted +in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he obtained a commission in the +Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 he proceeded with the expedition to +the coast of France as an assistant quartermaster-general; and in +the following year obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised +regiment of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth, +or King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany in 1760 and +1761; in the following summer he accompanied an expedition to Cuba, +as aide-de-camp to Major-General Eliott, and was actively employed in +the reduction of the Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in +his regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged by an +ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every branch of his +profession, he obtained permission to proceed to the Continent, to +observe the practice of the French and Austrian armies. In 1775 he +obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the twelfth light dragoons, joined +the regiment in Ireland shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the +appointment of quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was +removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now the +fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the Continent, +attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during three summers, +and after his return he presented His Majesty with a detailed account +of their evolutions. + +Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced, in +1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military movements, +which became the basis of our army regulations for field exercises +and movements. His abilities obtained for him the favour and +attention of King George III., who appointed him adjutant-general +in Ireland, for the purpose of introducing his system of tactics +into the army of that country. In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted +to the rank of major-general. In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish +staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in service +of actual warfare. After the commencement of hostilities with the +French republic, Major-General Dundas was employed on a military +mission to the island of Jersey, and was subsequently sent to the +Continent to confer with the Duke of York respecting the siege of +Dunkirk. From Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded +under Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was taken +prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison. His services +there, although he was ultimately obliged to evacuate the place, +called forth the approbation of his Sovereign and of the British +nation. After abandoning Toulon, he made a descent on Corsica, which +island was reduced and annexed to the British dominions; but shortly +afterwards he received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he +arrived in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry +at the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General +Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through Holland, and the +corps under his immediate command gained considerable advantage over +the enemy in two successive actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly +distinguished himself also in an attack upon the French post at +Thuyl, in December of the same year. He continued with the British +troops in Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was +appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After his return +to England he was appointed quartermaster-general to the army; and +he composed the celebrated regulations for the field exercises and +movements for the cavalry, which were approved by his Royal Highness +the Duke of York, and by King George III., and ordered to be +exclusively adopted throughout the cavalry. + +In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of the allied +army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to Holland; he +distinguished himself in several actions with the enemy, and was +highly commended by His Royal Highness in his public despatches. In +1801 he was appointed colonel of the second, or Royal North British +dragoons, and was constituted governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was +promoted to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the +French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in command of +the troops in the southern district, which comprised the counties +of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was appointed governor of the Royal +Hospital at Chelsea, and created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of +March, 1809, His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished +veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army, on the +resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York, +which appointment he held until the 25th of May, 1811, when His Royal +Highness was re-appointed. He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of +the rifle brigade on the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the +colonelcy of the King's dragoon guards on the 27th of January, 1813. +He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of sixty +years. + + +WILLIAM CROSBIE. + +_Appointed 23rd December, 1795._ + +After serving in the subordinate commissions, WILLIAM CROSBIE was +nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth regiment, on +the 9th of May, 1769; and in October, 1778, he was promoted to the +majority of the seventh Royal Fusiliers, with which corps he served +in the Carolinas; in April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785, +he obtained the permission of King George III. for the introduction +of an order of merit in the corps, which under his command obtained +a high reputation for correct discipline. He was promoted to the +rank of colonel in 1790; and in 1793 received a letter of service for +raising the Eighty-ninth regiment, of which he was appointed colonel. +In 1794 he was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed +to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in 1795. He died on the 16th of June, +1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was lieut.-governor at the +time of his decease. + + +JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE. + +_Appointed 18th June, 1798._ + +JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal Navy, evinced +great talent from his youth. It is recorded that, when a boy, he was +taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed up the river St. Lawrence, to +Quebec; and he constructed a chart of the river, which was given to +Major-General Wolfe, who sailed with an expedition against Quebec, +in 1759. On the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the +Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston, in +1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment in December, +1775, and served at Long Island and New York in 1776, and in the +expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777, when he distinguished himself at +the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded. In October of the same +year, he was placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The +Queen's Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted +to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services with this corps +are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, in a letter to +Lord George Germaine, in the following terms:--"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe +has been at the head of a battalion since October, 1777, and since +that time he has been perpetually with the advance of the army. +The history of the corps under his command is a series of gallant, +skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without a +single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or taken, twice +their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself has been thrice wounded; +and I do not scruple to assert, that his successes have been no less +the fruit of the most extensive knowledge of his profession which +study and the experience within his reach could give him, than of +the most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly +distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina, and Virginia, +he was included in the capitulation of York Town, and returned to +England in a state of debility from excessive exertion, &c. In 1790 +he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and in the following year +raised a corps of infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he +was appointed colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently +proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the same talent, +energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously in the American war. +In 1794 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1796 to +the local rank of lieut.-general in the island of St. Domingo. In +January, 1798, he was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment, +and was removed, in June following, to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, +the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in 1806. + + +SIR JAMES H. CRAIG, K.B. + +_Appointed 30th October, 1806._ + +JAMES HENRY CRAIG was appointed ensign in the thirtieth foot, in +1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in 1771 he was +promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, with which +corps he served several campaigns in America; and in 1777 he was +promoted to the majority, and in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of +the Eighty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1783, to +the sixteenth. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and +to that of major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the +colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to the rank of +lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth in 1804. He +commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, in 1805, with the local +rank of general, and the dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops +under his orders landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession +of the island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor of Upper and Lower +Canada, with the local rank of general in America; in 1809 he was +removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. He was also appointed +governor of Blackness Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812. + + +THE HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH. + +_Appointed 18th September, 1809._ + +In 1778 the HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH was appointed cornet in the +eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was promoted to a lieutenancy +in the Eighty-seventh foot. He embarked for the West Indies, in +January, 1780, and served there, and in North America, until 1782, +when he returned to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain +in the second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain +and lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns of +1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness the Duke of +York, and shared in the several actions in which the foot guards +distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was promoted to the rank of +colonel, and in 1799 he commanded the first battalion of his regiment +in the expedition to Holland, where he served in several actions +under Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness +the Duke of York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the +expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, and +was promoted to the rank of major-general, in January, 1801. After +commanding the light cavalry in Egypt some time, he was placed at +the head of a brigade of infantry, and was honored with the Order of +the Crescent from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of foot +guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in 1807 he commanded +a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. In 1808 he was promoted to +the rank of lieut.-general, and appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth +regiment, and in 1809 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND. He was +promoted to the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the +27th of October, 1843. + + +SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.B. + +_Appointed 21st November, 1843._ + +The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General Sir +Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her Majesty to the Colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment. + + "TWENTY-SECOND! + + Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me at your head, + and I shall end my military career wearing the uniform of the + Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory, and well I know it will + increase, when you have again an opportunity to use your Arms! + Never were the Musket and Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor + were the Royal Colours of England ever confided to more intrepid + Soldiers! + + "Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments that + they had formerly commanded, and with whose glory their own fame + is associated; but old Comrades have passed away,--to the new men, + they are strangers,--and nought remains to bind them to their + Regiments, but Memory and Renown! My good fortune has been greater, + for while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old Corps, + the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the TWENTY-SECOND, + placed among men at whose head I have so lately fought, and to + whose valour I owe so much!! + + "Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as _pseudo_ Philosophers + pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive us not of Manly + sentiments. I shall always have the strongest attachment to the + corps with whom I have served, and among the honors won for me by + the Army of Scinde, the greatest is that of being your Colonel!! + + (Signed) "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_, + "_Colonel 22nd Regiment_. + + "_Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844._" + +The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as Colonel of +the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment, was in the _Duke of Wellington's own +hand-writing_:-- + + "P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty, principally + on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you, as this was + the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India engaged in the + two glorious battles fought at _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_, in + _Scinde_; and Her Majesty was graciously pleased to approve of the + recommendation on that ground." + + + LONDON: + Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street, + For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. + + +FOOTNOTE: + +[12] David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair, +during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to +Vienna and Turin. + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been + corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within + the text and consultation of external sources. + + Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, + and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. + + Pg xxix: 'thence to Portmouth' replaced by 'thence to Portsmouth'. + Pg 34: 'a deperate dash' replaced by 'a desperate dash'. + Pg 41: 'stanch and true' replaced by 'staunch and true'. + Pg 45: 'until its recal' replaced by 'until its recall'. + Pg 52: 'Anne to that' replaced by 'Anne to the'. + Pg 59: '27th of Januuary' replaced by '27th of January'. + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 64581 *** diff --git a/64581-h/64581-h.htm b/64581-h/64581-h.htm index 52f3a3f..4605013 100644 --- a/64581-h/64581-h.htm +++ b/64581-h/64581-h.htm @@ -1,5324 +1,4854 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
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-placed at the end of each major section.</p>
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-<p>Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.</p>
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-<span class="fs90">BY COMMAND OF</span> His late Majesty <span class="fs90">WILLIAM THE IV<sup><span class="fs70">TH</span></sup>.</span><br />
-<span class="fs80"><em>and under the Patronage of</em></span><br />
-Her Majesty the Queen.<br /><br />
-
-HISTORICAL RECORDS,<br />
-<span class="fs80"><em>OF THE</em></span><br />
-<span class="fs150">British Army</span><br />
-
-<em>Comprising the</em><br />
-<em><span class="fs135">History of every Regiment</span></em><br />
-<em>IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE</em>.<br />
-
-<em>By Richard Cannon Esq<sup>re</sup>.</em><br />
-
-<em>Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards.</em><br />
-
-London.<br />
-
-<em>Printed by Authority.</em><br />
-
- </div>
-</div>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h1><span class="fs90 lsp2">HISTORICAL RECORD</span><br />
-
-<span class="fs60">OF</span><br />
-
-<span class="fs135">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</span><br />
-
-<span class="fs60">OR</span><br />
-
-THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</h1>
-</div>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs60">CONTAINING</p>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs90 lht">AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT<br />
-IN 1689,<br />
-
-AND OF ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES<br />
-TO 1849.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-<p class="p3 pfs60">COMPILED BY</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs120">RICHARD CANNON, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>,</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs60 lsp2">ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30a" />
-<p class="pfs60 lsp2">ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.</p>
-<hr class="r30b" />
-
-<p class="p3 pfs100 lsp">LONDON:</p>
-<p class="pfs120 lsp">PARKER, FURNIVALL, & PARKER,</p>
-<p class="pfs80">30, CHARING-CROSS.</p>
-<hr class="r5a" />
-<p class="pfs60">MDCCCXLIX.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_i"></a>[Pg i]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak lsp2" id="GENERAL_ORDERS">GENERAL ORDERS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r20a" />
-<hr class="r20a" />
-<p class="p2 right fs80"><em>HORSE-GUARDS</em>,</p>
-<p class="right fs80"><em>1st January, 1836</em>.</p>
-
-<p class="noindent">His Majesty has been pleased to command that,
-with the view of doing the fullest justice to Regiments,
-as well as to Individuals who have distinguished
-themselves by their Bravery in Action
-with the Enemy, an Account of the Services of
-every Regiment in the British Army shall be published
-under the superintendence and direction of
-the Adjutant-General; and that this Account shall
-contain the following particulars, viz.:—</p>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-
-<p>—— The Period and Circumstances of the Original
-Formation of the Regiment; The Stations at which it
-has been from time to time employed; The Battles,
-Sieges, and other Military Operations in which it has
-been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement
-it may have performed, and the Colours,
-Trophies, &c., it may have captured from the
-Enemy.</p>
-
-<p>—— The Names of the Officers, and the number of
-Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Killed or
-Wounded by the Enemy, specifying the place and
-Date of the Action.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p>
-
-<p>—— The Names of those Officers who, in consideration
-of their Gallant Services and Meritorious
-Conduct in Engagements with the Enemy, have
-been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other
-Marks of His Majesty's gracious favour.</p>
-
-<p>—— The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned
-Officers, and Privates, as may have
-specially signalized themselves in Action.</p>
-
-<p>And,</p>
-
-<p>—— The Badges and Devices which the Regiment
-may have been permitted to bear, and the
-Causes on account of which such Badges or Devices,
-or any other Marks of Distinction, have been
-granted.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="right padr2">By Command of the Right Honorable</p>
-<p class="right padr4">GENERAL LORD HILL,</p>
-<p class="right"><em>Commanding-in-Chief</em>.</p>
-
-<p class="p2 right smcap">John Macdonald,</p>
-<p class="right padr2"><em>Adjutant-General</em>.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[iii]</span><br /></p>
-
-<h2 class="p2 nobreak lsp2" id="PREFACE">PREFACE.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r15" />
-
-<p class="p2 noindent">The character and credit of the British Army must
-chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which
-all who enter into its service are animated, and
-consequently it is of the highest importance that any
-measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation,
-by which alone great and gallant actions are achieved,
-should be adopted.</p>
-
-<p>Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment
-of this desirable object than a full display of the noble
-deeds with which the Military History of our country
-abounds. To hold forth these bright examples to
-the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to
-incite him to emulate the meritorious conduct of those
-who have preceded him in their honorable career,
-are among the motives that have given rise to the
-present publication.</p>
-
-<p>The operations of the British Troops are, indeed,
-announced in the "London Gazette," from whence
-they are transferred into the public prints: the
-achievements of our armies are thus made known at
-the time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span>
-of praise and admiration to which they are entitled.
-On extraordinary occasions, the Houses of Parliament
-have been in the habit of conferring on the Commanders,
-and the Officers and Troops acting under
-their orders, expressions of approbation and of thanks
-for their skill and bravery; and these testimonials,
-confirmed by the high honour of their Sovereign's
-approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier
-most highly prizes.</p>
-
-<p>It has not, however, until late years, been the practice
-(which appears to have long prevailed in some of
-the Continental armies) for British Regiments to keep
-regular records of their services and achievements.
-Hence some difficulty has been experienced in obtaining,
-particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic
-account of their origin and subsequent services.</p>
-
-<p>This defect will now be remedied, in consequence
-of His Majesty having been pleased to command
-that every Regiment shall, in future, keep a full and
-ample record of its services at home and abroad.</p>
-
-<p>From the materials thus collected, the country
-will henceforth derive information as to the difficulties
-and privations which chequer the career of those who
-embrace the military profession. In Great Britain,
-where so large a number of persons are devoted to
-the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures,
-and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span>
-long a period, being undisturbed by the <em>presence of
-war</em>, which few other countries have escaped, comparatively
-little is known of the vicissitudes of active
-service and of the casualties of climate, to which,
-even during peace, the British Troops are exposed in
-every part of the globe, with little or no interval of
-repose.</p>
-
-<p>In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which
-the country derives from the industry and the enterprise
-of the agriculturist and the trader, its happy
-inhabitants may be supposed not often to reflect on
-the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,—on
-their sufferings,—and on the sacrifice of valuable life,
-by which so many national benefits are obtained and
-preserved.</p>
-
-<p>The conduct of the British Troops, their valour,
-and endurance, have shone conspicuously under great
-and trying difficulties; and their character has been
-established in Continental warfare by the irresistible
-spirit with which they have effected debarkations in
-spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the
-gallantry and steadiness with which they have maintained
-their advantages against superior numbers.</p>
-
-<p>In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders,
-ample justice has generally been done to
-the gallant exertions of the Corps employed; but
-the details of their services and of acts of individual<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span>
-bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the
-various Regiments.</p>
-
-<p>These Records are now preparing for publication,
-under his Majesty's special authority, by Mr.
-<span class="smcap">Richard Cannon</span>, Principal Clerk of the Adjutant
-General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot
-fail to be useful and interesting to military men
-of every rank, it is considered that they will also
-afford entertainment and information to the general
-reader, particularly to those who may have served in
-the Army, or who have relatives in the Service.</p>
-
-<p>There exists in the breasts of most of those who
-have served, or are serving, in the Army, an <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Esprit
-de Corps</i>—an attachment to everything belonging
-to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative of
-the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove
-interesting. Authentic accounts of the actions of
-the great, the valiant, the loyal, have always been
-of paramount interest with a brave and civilized
-people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes
-who, in moments of danger and terror, have stood
-"firm as the rocks of their native shore:" and when
-half the world has been arrayed against them, they
-have fought the battles of their Country with unshaken
-fortitude. It is presumed that a record of
-achievements in war,—victories so complete and surprising,
-gained by our countrymen, our brothers,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span>
-our fellow citizens in arms,—a record which revives
-the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant
-deeds before us,—will certainly prove acceptable to
-the public.</p>
-
-<p>Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other
-distinguished Officers will be introduced in the
-Records of their respective Regiments, and the
-Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to
-time, been conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying
-the value and importance of its services, will be
-faithfully set forth.</p>
-
-<p>As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record
-of each Regiment will be printed in a distinct number,
-so that when the whole shall be completed, the
-Parts may be bound up in numerical succession.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span><br />
- <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ix"></a>[ix]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION<br />
-
-<span class="fs60">TO</span><br />
-
-<span class="fs120 lsp2">THE INFANTRY.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r20a" />
-<hr class="r20a" />
-
-<p class="p2 noindent">The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been
-celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness,
-and the national superiority of the British troops
-over those of other countries has been evinced in
-the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains
-so many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery,
-that no doubts can be raised upon the facts which
-are recorded. It must therefore be admitted, that
-the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is
-<span class="smcap">Intrepidity</span>. This quality was evinced by the
-inhabitants of England when their country was
-invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army, on
-which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into
-the sea to attack the Roman soldiers as they descended
-from their ships; and, although their discipline
-and arms were inferior to those of their
-adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing
-intimidated the flower of the Roman troops, including
-Cæsar's favourite tenth legion. Their arms
-consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons
-of rude construction. They had chariots, to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_x"></a>[x]</span>
-axles of which were fastened sharp pieces of iron
-resembling scythe-blades, and infantry in long
-chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and
-fought on foot, and for change of ground, pursuit
-or retreat, sprang into the chariot and drove off
-with the speed of cavalry. These inventions were,
-however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in
-the course of time a military system, with discipline
-and subordination, was introduced, and
-British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted
-to the greatest advantage; a full development of
-the national character followed, and it shone forth
-in all its native brilliancy.</p>
-
-<p>The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted
-principally of infantry: Thanes, and other men of
-property, however, fought on horseback. The
-infantry were of two classes, heavy and light.
-The former carried large shields armed with spikes,
-long broad swords and spears; and the latter were
-armed with swords or spears only. They had also
-men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and
-javelins.</p>
-
-<p>The feudal troops established by William the
-Conqueror consisted (as already stated in the Introduction
-to the Cavalry) almost entirely of horse;
-but when the warlike barons and knights, with their
-trains of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion
-of men appeared on foot, and, although
-these were of inferior degree, they proved stout-hearted
-Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary
-troops were employed, infantry always constituted
-a considerable portion of the military force;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xi"></a>[xi]</span>
-and this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i> has since acquired, in every quarter
-of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the
-armies of any nation at any period.</p>
-
-<p>The weapons carried by the infantry, during the
-several reigns succeeding the Conquest, were bows
-and arrows, half-pikes, lances, halberds, various
-kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour
-was worn on the head and body, and in course of
-time the practice became general for military men
-to be so completely cased in steel, that it was
-almost impossible to slay them.</p>
-
-<p>The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the
-destructive purposes of war, in the early part of the
-fourteenth century, produced a change in the arms
-and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and
-arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but
-British archers continued formidable adversaries;
-and, owing to the inconvenient construction and imperfect
-bore of the fire-arms when first introduced,
-a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow
-from their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition
-to every army, even as late as the sixteenth
-century.</p>
-
-<p>During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth
-each company of infantry usually consisted of
-men armed five different ways; in every hundred
-men forty were "<em>men-at-arms</em>," and sixty "<em>shot</em>;"
-the "men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe
-men, and thirty pikemen; and the "shot" were
-twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and twenty
-harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his
-principal weapon, a sword and dagger.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xii"></a>[xii]</span></p>
-
-<p>Companies of infantry varied at this period in
-numbers from 150 to 300 men; each company had
-a colour or ensign, and the mode of formation recommended
-by an English military writer (Sir John
-Smithe) in 1590 was:—the colour in the centre of
-the company guarded by the halberdiers; the pikemen
-in equal proportions, on each flank of the
-halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of
-the pikes; half the archers on each flank of the musketeers,
-and the harquebusiers (whose arms were
-much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal
-proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>
-It was customary to unite a number of companies
-into one body, called a <span class="smcap">Regiment</span>, which
-frequently amounted to three thousand men: but
-each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous
-improvements were eventually introduced in the
-construction of fire-arms, and, it having been found
-impossible to make armour proof against the muskets
-then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without
-its being too weighty for the soldier, armour was
-gradually laid aside by the infantry in the seventeenth
-century: bows and arrows also fell into disuse,
-and the infantry were reduced to two classes,
-viz.: <em>musketeers</em>, armed with matchlock muskets,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiii"></a>[xiii]</span>
-swords, and daggers; and <em>pikemen</em>, armed with pikes
-from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and swords.</p>
-
-<p>In the early part of the seventeenth century
-Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, reduced the
-strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused the
-gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in
-flasks, or in small wooden bandoliers, each containing
-a charge, to be made up into cartridges, and
-carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment
-into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division
-of pikemen. He also adopted the practice of forming
-four regiments into a brigade; and the number
-of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each
-regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that
-his infantry could resist the charge of the celebrated
-Polish horsemen and Austrian cuirassiers; and his
-armies became the admiration of other nations. His
-mode of formation was copied by the English,
-French, and other European states; but so great
-was the prejudice in favour of ancient customs, that
-all his improvements were not adopted until near a
-century afterwards.</p>
-
-<p>In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service,
-styled the Admiral's regiment. In 1678
-each company of 100 men usually consisted of 30
-pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with
-light firelocks. In this year the King added a company
-of men armed with hand grenades to each of
-the old British regiments, which was designated the
-"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived
-as to fit in the muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiv"></a>[xiv]</span>
-similar to those at present in use were adopted about
-twenty years afterwards.</p>
-
-<p>An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by
-order of King James II., to guard the artillery, and
-was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now 7th Foot).
-This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did
-not carry pikes.</p>
-
-<p>King William III. incorporated the Admiral's
-regiment in the second Foot Guards, and raised
-two Marine regiments for sea-service. During the
-war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting
-the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14
-pikemen and 46 musketeers; the captains carried
-pikes; lieutenants, partisans; ensigns, half-pikes;
-and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697 the
-Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again
-formed on the breaking out of the war in 1702.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p>
-
-<p>During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were
-laid aside, and every infantry soldier was armed
-with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the grenadiers
-ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades;
-and the regiments were directed to lay aside
-their third colour: the corps of Royal Artillery was
-first added to the Army in this reign.</p>
-
-<p>About the year 1745, the men of the battalion
-companies of infantry ceased to carry swords; during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xv"></a>[xv]</span>
-the reign of George II. light companies were added
-to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of
-General Officers recommended that the grenadiers
-should lay aside their swords, as that weapon had
-never been used during the Seven Years' War. Since
-that period the arms of the infantry soldier have been
-limited to the musket and bayonet.</p>
-
-<p>The arms and equipment of the British Troops have
-seldom differed materially, since the Conquest, from
-those of other European states; and in some respects
-the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed to
-be inferior to that of the nations with whom they
-have had to contend; yet, under this disadvantage,
-the bravery and superiority of the British infantry
-have been evinced on very many and most trying
-occasions, and splendid victories have been gained
-over very superior numbers.</p>
-
-<p>Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like
-champions who have dared to confront a host of
-foes, and have proved themselves valiant with any
-arms. At <em>Crecy</em>, King Edward III., at the head of
-about 30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August,
-1346, Philip King of France, whose army is said to
-have amounted to 100,000 men; here British valour
-encountered veterans of renown:—the King of Bohemia,
-the King of Majorca, and many princes and
-nobles were slain, and the French army was routed
-and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards, Edward
-Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black
-Prince, defeated, at <em>Poictiers</em>, with 14,000 men,
-a French army of 60,000 horse, besides infantry,
-and took John I., King of France, and his son<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvi"></a>[xvi]</span>
-Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415,
-King Henry V., with an army of about 13,000
-men, although greatly exhausted by marches, privations,
-and sickness, defeated, at <em>Agincourt</em>, the
-Constable of France, at the head of the flower of
-the French nobility and an army said to amount to
-60,000 men, and gained a complete victory.</p>
-
-<p>During the seventy years' war between the United
-Provinces of the Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy,
-which commenced in 1578 and terminated
-in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the
-States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable
-spirit and firmness;<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> and in the thirty
-years' war between the Protestant Princes and the
-Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the service
-of Sweden and other states were celebrated for
-deeds of heroism.<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> In the wars of Queen Anne,
-the fame of the British army under the great
-<span class="smcap">Marlborough</span> was spread throughout the world;
-and if we glance at the achievements performed
-within the memory of persons now living, there is
-abundant proof that the Britons of the present age
-are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvii"></a>[xvii]</span>
-which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds
-of the brave men, of whom there are many now
-surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801, under the
-brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army,
-which had been vainly styled <em>Invincible</em>, to evacuate
-that country; also the services of the gallant
-Troops during the arduous campaigns in the Peninsula,
-under the immortal <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>; and the
-determined stand made by British Army at
-Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had
-long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain,
-and had sought and planned her destruction by
-every means he could devise, was compelled to
-leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to
-place himself at the disposal of the British Government
-These achievements, with others of recent
-dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the
-same valour and constancy which glowed in the
-breasts of the heroes of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt,
-Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to animate the
-Britons of the nineteenth century.</p>
-
-<p>The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust
-and muscular frame,—intrepidity which no danger
-can appal,—unconquerable spirit and resolution,—patience
-in fatigue and privation, and cheerful obedience
-to his superiors. These qualities, united with
-an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate
-and give a skilful direction to the energies and
-adventurous spirit of the hero, and a wise selection
-of officers of superior talent to command, whose
-presence inspires confidence,—have been the leading
-causes of the splendid victories gained by the British<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xviii"></a>[xviii]</span>
-arms.<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> The fame of the deeds of the past and
-present generations in the various battle-fields where
-the robust sons of Albion have fought and conquered,
-surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory;
-these achievements will live in the page of history to
-the end of time.</p>
-
-<p>The records of the several regiments will be found
-to contain a detail of facts of an interesting character,
-connected with the hardships, sufferings, and gallant
-exploits of British soldiers in the various parts of the
-world, where the calls of their Country and the commands
-of their Sovereign have required them to
-proceed in the execution of their duty, whether in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xix"></a>[xix]</span>
-active continental operations, or in maintaining colonial
-territories in distant and unfavourable climes.</p>
-
-<p>The superiority of the British infantry has been
-pre-eminently set forth in the wars of six centuries,
-and admitted by the greatest commanders which
-Europe has produced. The formations and movements
-of this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i>, as at present practised, while
-they are adapted to every species of warfare, and to
-all probable situations and circumstances of service,
-are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military
-tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific
-principles. Although the movements and evolutions
-have been copied from the continental armies, yet
-various improvements have from time to time been
-introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by
-which the superiority of the national military character
-is maintained. The rank and influence which
-Great Britain has attained among the nations of the
-world, have in a great measure been purchased by
-the valour of the Army, and to persons who have the
-welfare of their country at heart, the records of the
-several regiments cannot fail to prove interesting.</p>
-
-
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> A company of 200 men would appear thus:—</p>
-
-<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="95%" summary="Structure of a company">
-<tr><td colspan="4"></td><td> <img src="images/flag.jpg" width="20" alt="flag" /></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td>
- <td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc"></td></tr>
-<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Halberds.</td>
- <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td></tr>
-<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl"></td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td>
- <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>The musket carried a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>10</sub>th of a pound; and the
-harquebus a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>25</sub>th of a pound.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps
-in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of
-Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under
-Admiral Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and
-in its subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at
-the siege of Barcelona in 1705.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed
-in 1590, observes:—"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation
-would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the field,
-let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the Spanish
-infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe. For
-instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the
-Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or
-Buffs.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> <em>Vide</em> the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of
-Foot.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes
-the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in Egypt to
-that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but His Majesty
-desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed on the consideration
-of every part of the army, that it has been a strict observance of order, discipline,
-and military system, which has given the full energy to the
-native valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the
-superiority of the national military character, in situations uncommonly
-arduous, and under circumstances of peculiar difficulty."—<em>General
-Orders in 1801.</em></p>
-
-<p>In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope (afterwards
-Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the successful result
-of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, 1809, it is stated:—"On
-no occasion has the undaunted valour of British troops ever been more
-manifest. At the termination of a severe and harassing march, rendered
-necessary by the superiority which the enemy had acquired, and
-which had materially impaired the efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages
-were to be encountered. These have all been surmounted by
-the conduct of the troops themselves; and the enemy has been taught,
-that whatever advantages of position or of numbers he may possess, there
-is inherent in the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not
-how to yield,—that no circumstances can appal,—and that will ensure
-victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human means."</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs180">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p>
-
-<p class="p4 pfs60">OR</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs150">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT,</p>
-
-<p class="p4 pfs60">BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR</p>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs70">THE WORDS</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs120">"SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD,"</p>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs80 lht">
-IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY<br />
-IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE,<br />
-DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843;</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs80">
-AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs80">OF <span class="fs150">MEEANEE</span> AND <span class="fs150">HYDERABAD</span>,</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs80 lht">
-FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY,<br />
-ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843.<br />
-</p>
-
-
-<hr class="p4 chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxv"></a>[xxv]</span><br /></p>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs60">OR</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs135">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="pfs60">OF THE</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs135 lsp">HISTORICAL RECORD.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-
-<table class="autotable" summary="">
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td>
-<td class="tdl"></td>
-<td class="tdr smcap fs60">Page</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl"></td>
-<td class="tdl">Introduction.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1689</td>
-<td class="tdl">Formation of the Regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Stationed at Chester</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment,
- appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to the Duke of Norfolk</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1690</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged at the <em>Battle of the Boyne</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Reviewed by King William at <em>Finglass</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Advanced against Athlone</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Rejoined the Army</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Employed at the first siege of Limerick</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded into winter-quarters</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged with the Rapparees</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1691</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded with the Army against <em>Ballymore</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1691</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Siege and Capture of <em>Athlone</em>
- <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvi"></a>[xxvi]</span></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of <em>Aghrim</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Capture of <em>Galway</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">——————————
- <em>Limerick</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Termination of the War in Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1695</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1696</td>
-<td class="tdl">Returned to England</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1697</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at <em>Ryswick</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1698</td>
-<td class="tdl">Re-embarked for Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1701</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Brigadier-General William Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot,
- with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1702</td>
-<td class="tdl">Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King William III</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for Jamaica</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Selwyn, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1705</td>
-<td class="tdl">Establishment augmented by two companies</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1712</td>
-<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to
- the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father, Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1713</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1714</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment returned to England, leaving two Independent Companies at Jamaica</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1715</td>
-<td class="tdl">Employed in recruiting its Establishment</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1718</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for <em>Ireland</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1726</td>
-<td class="tdl">—————— <em>Minorca</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1727</td>
-<td class="tdl">Detachment embarked for <em>Gibraltar</em> to assist in its Defence against the Spaniards</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1730</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from the Twenty-Eighth Regiment,
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd, removed to the Sixteenth Regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1734</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to the Colonelcy,
- in succession to Colonel William Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot
- <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvii"></a>[xxvii]</span></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1737</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment,
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Hon. James St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1738</td>
-<td class="tdl">Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Moyle, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1741</td>
-<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth Regiment,
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Paget, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1748</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1749</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1751</td>
-<td class="tdl">Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating the Clothing, Colours,
- Numbers, Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1756</td>
-<td class="tdl">War declared against France</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1757</td>
-<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Farrell, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1758</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, and the Capture of the Island of <em>Cape Breton</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1759</td>
-<td class="tdl">The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the Louisburg Grenadiers,—Engaged at the Battle of Quebec</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1760</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to <em>Quebec</em>, and advanced to <em>Montreal</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas</td>
-<td class="tdrb">-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1761</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the <em>West Indies</em>
- <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxviii"></a>[xxviii]</span></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Island of <em>Dominica</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1762</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Capture of <em>Martinique</em>, <em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked with the expedition against the <em>Havannah</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Storming and Capture of <em>Fort Moro</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Honorable Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy,
- in succession to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1763</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange for the Province of Florida, in South America</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment proceeded to West Florida</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1765</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Great Britain</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1773</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1775</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for North America</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1776</td>
-<td class="tdl">Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Staten Island, near New York</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the Americans at Brooklyn</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Gained possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode Island</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1778</td>
-<td class="tdl">The King of France having united with the Americans, made preparations for the
- re-capture of Rhode Island, but was compelled to abandon the siege</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1779</td>
-<td class="tdl">The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded to New York</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1782</td>
-<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxix"></a>[xxix]</span>
- Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the Colonelcy, in succession to General
- the Honorable Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment received instructions to assume the title of <em>the Twenty-Second</em>, or <em>the Cheshire Regiment</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1783</td>
-<td class="tdl">The American War having terminated, the regiment embarked for England</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1785</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards at the Castle</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">King George the III. authorized an <em>Order of Merit</em> to be instituted in the corps</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1787</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and <ins class="corr" id="tn-xxix" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'thence to Portmouth'">
-thence to Portsmouth</ins></td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1788</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Chatham and Dover</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1790</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1791</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the Colonelcy, in succession
- to Major-General O'Hara, removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1793</td>
-<td class="tdl">War commenced between Great Britain and France</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for the West Indies</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1794</td>
-<td class="tdl">Capture of the Island of Martinique</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Lucia</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">———— ———— Guadaloupe</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Domingo</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1795</td>
-<td class="tdl">Returned to England from St. Domingo</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the Eighty-Ninth Regiment,
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1798</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Guernsey</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1798</td>
-<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxx"></a>[xxx]</span>
- Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the Eighty-First Regiment,
- to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Crosbie, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1799</td>
-<td class="tdl">Removed to Portsmouth</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being sent to the Cape of Good Hope,
- preparatory to being embarked for service in the East Indies</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1800</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1802</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to India</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1803</td>
-<td class="tdl">Arrival at Calcutta</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force assembled for the attack
- of the province of Cuttack</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of Barrabatta by storm</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1804</td>
-<td class="tdl">Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege of Bhurtpore</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1805</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched from <em>Fort William</em> and encamped at <em>Benares</em>, thence proceeded to <em>Cawnpore</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl"><em>Rajah Sing</em> submitted and concluded a treaty of peace</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">British army withdrew from Bhurtpore</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl"><em>Holkar</em> and <em>Scindia</em> concluded Treaties of Peace</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1806</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to <em>Delhi</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the Governor-General in Council and of
- General Lord Lake, Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1806</td>
-<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxi"></a>[xxxi]</span>
- Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1807</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Berhampore</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1809</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch to the Colonelcy, in succession to
- General Sir James Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1810</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the expedition against the Mauritius</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1811</td>
-<td class="tdl">Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of Madagascar</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1812</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bourbon</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1813</td>
-<td class="tdl">Removed a second time to the Mauritius</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1814</td>
-<td class="tdl">A second Battalion added to the establishment of the regiment, which was reduced in the same year</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1815</td>
-<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the Mauritius from Hindoostan</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1819</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for England from the Mauritius</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1821</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1822</td>
-<td class="tdl">Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork.
- The officers commanding this detachment received the thanks of H. R. H. the Duke of York,
- and were presented with a silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the Town of Newmarket,
- for attacking and defeating this body of insurgents</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1826</td>
-<td class="tdl">Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies preparatory to embarkation for foreign service</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked for Jamaica</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1830</td>
-<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxii"></a>[xxxii]</span>
-Depôt Companies embarked for England</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1831</td>
-<td class="tdl">Service Companies employed in suppressing an insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1836</td>
-<td class="tdl">Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1837</td>
-<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland, and rejoined by the Depôt Companies</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1840</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked from Ireland for England</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1841</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1842</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to <em>Scinde</em>, and encamped at Kurrachee</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1843</td>
-<td class="tdl">Employed in the destruction of the Fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described by Major-General William E. P. Napier</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Treacherous attack upon the British residency at <em>Hyderabad</em>, and gallant defence
- made by the <em>Light Company</em> of the <em>Twenty-Second</em> regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir Charles Napier</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Battle of Meeanee</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Battle of Hyderabad</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Particulars of the march of the British troops through the desert</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1843</td>
-<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiii"></a>[xxxiii]</span>
- Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and by the British Parliament,
- on the Twenty-second regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops in distributing
- the medals conferred on them for their gallantry in this campaign</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir Charles Napier's order on the occasion</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the Colonelcy, in succession to
- General Honorable E. Finch, deceased</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1844</td>
-<td class="tdl">Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Capture of Forts <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em></td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1845</td>
-<td class="tdl">Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Returned to Poonah</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1846</td>
-<td class="tdl">Marched to Bombay</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1847</td>
-<td class="tdl">Removed to Poonah</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1849</td>
-<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bombay</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">——</td>
-<td class="tdl">Conclusion</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl"></td>
-<td class="tdc">————————</td>
-<td class="tdrb"></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl"></td>
-<td class="tdl">Description of the Standards captured at the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad,
- and of the Medal conferred in honor of the victories obtained at those places</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiv"></a>[xxxiv]</span><br />
- <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxv"></a>[xxxv]</span><br /></p>
-
-<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="pfs60">OF</p>
-
-<p class="pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs60">OR</p>
-
-<p class="pfs130">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p>
-
-
-<table class="autotable" width="95%" summary="">
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td>
-<td class="tdrb smcap fs60">Page</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">—— Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1701 William Selwyn</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1702 Thomas Handasyd</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1712 Roger Handasyd</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1730 William Barrell</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1734 <em>Hon.</em> James St. Clair</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1737 John Moyle</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1738 Thomas Paget</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1741 Richard O'Farrell</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1757 Edward Whitmore</td>
-<td class="tdrb">—</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1762 <em>Hon.</em> Thomas Gage</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1782 Charles O'Hara</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1791 David Dundas</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1795 William Crosbie</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1798 John Graves Simcoe</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B.</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1809 <em>Hon.</em> Edward Finch</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="tdc tdpp" colspan="2">PLATES.</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">Colours of the Regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb nowrap"><em>to face</em><a href="#PL_1"> 1</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">Costume of the Regiment</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_2">32</a></td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdl">Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of Meeanee in 1843;
- and of the Silver Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged in the
- Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad</td>
-<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_3">47</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="pfs90">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.</p>
-<p class="pfs90">QUEEN'S COLOUR.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp37" id="PL_1" style="max-width: 26.5625em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_001fp.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">
- REGIMENTAL COLOUR.
- </div>
-</div>
-<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p>
-<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand</em></p>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120 lsp" id="HISTORICAL_RECORD">HISTORICAL RECORD</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="p2 pfs60">OF</p>
-
-<p class="pfs150">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p>
-
-<p class="pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30a" />
-<hr class="r30b" />
-
-<div class="sidenote">1689</div>
-
-<p class="noindent">The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in
-February, 1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations
-of security to the civil and religious institutions
-of the country, and of prosperity in every branch of
-national industry; but in Ireland the majority of the
-people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and
-a body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance
-of that country from the power of King James, who had
-landed there with an armament from France. On this
-occasion <span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk</span>, evinced zeal for the
-principles of the Revolution, and raised a regiment of
-pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers
-was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of
-his Grace now bears the title of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT</span>.</p>
-
-<p>Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped,
-and disciplined, the regiment was encamped near Chester
-in the early part of August, and soon afterwards embarked
-for Ireland, with the forces commanded by Marshal<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span>
-Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of
-<em>Carrickfergus</em> was commenced, and the garrison of that
-fortress was forced to surrender in a few days.</p>
-
-<p>From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the
-army to Dundalk, where the troops were encamped on
-low and wet ground, and suffered much in their health.</p>
-
-<p>While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the
-Duke of Norfolk was succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir
-Henry Bellasis, who had commanded the Sixth regiment
-of foot when it was in the Dutch service.</p>
-
-<p>On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its
-march from Dundalk for Armagh, for winter-quarters.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1690</div>
-
-<p>In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to
-serve at the battle of the <em>Boyne</em>, under the eye of its
-Sovereign, who commanded the army in Ireland in person;
-and on this occasion it took part in forcing the passage of
-the river, and in gaining a decisive victory over the army
-of King James on the 1st of July.</p>
-
-<p>Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin,
-the regiment was reviewed by King William at Finglass,
-on the 8th of July, and mustered six hundred and twenty-eight
-rank and file under arms. It was afterwards
-detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against Athlone;
-but that fortress was found better provided for a siege
-than had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the
-army.</p>
-
-<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> was one of the corps employed at
-the siege of <em>Limerick</em>. Many things combined to prevent
-the capture of that fortress until the following year, and
-when the siege was raised, the regiment proceeded into
-winter-quarters, from whence it sent out detachments,
-which had several rencounters with bands of armed
-peasantry, called Rapparees.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1691</div>
-
-<p>On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span>
-commanded by Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards
-Earl of Athlone) on its march for <em>Ballymore</em>, which fortress
-was speedily forced to surrender.</p>
-
-<p>From Ballymore, the regiment marched to <em>Athlone</em>, and
-had the honour to take part in the siege of that fortress,
-which was captured by storm on the 1st of July. The
-grenadier company of the regiment formed part of the
-storming party, which forded the river Shannon under a
-heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry.
-The capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid
-achievements which have exalted the reputation of the
-British arms, and its reduction proved a presage of additional
-triumphs.</p>
-
-<p>Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone,
-General St. Ruth retreated, with the French and Irish
-army under his orders, to a position at <em>Aghrim</em>, where he
-was attacked on the 12th of July. On this occasion, the
-regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by its
-Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it
-contributed towards the complete overthrow of the army
-of King James, which was driven from the field with
-severe loss, including its commander, General St. Ruth,
-who was killed by a cannon-ball.</p>
-
-<p>The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers
-killed; one Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded.</p>
-
-<p>On the 19th of July the army approached <em>Galway</em>;
-after sunset six regiments of foot and four squadrons of
-horse and dragoons passed the river by pontoons, and on
-the following morning they captured some outworks. On
-the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General
-Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway,
-and he took possession of the town with the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-and two other regiments of foot.</p>
-
-<p>The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span>
-and capitulation of <em>Limerick</em>, which city was surrendered
-in September, and completed the deliverance of Ireland
-from the power of King James.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1692<br />1695</div>
-
-<p>After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed
-in garrison and other duties of home-service,
-until 1695, when it proceeded to the Netherlands, to
-reinforce the army commanded by King William III.,
-who was engaged in war for the preservation of the
-liberties of Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of
-France. After landing at Ostend, the regiment was
-placed in garrison.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1696</div>
-
-<p>Some advantages had been gained over the French
-arms; to counteract which, Louis XIV. attempted to
-weaken the confederates by forming plans for causing
-England to become the theatre of civil war. With this
-view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in
-the French service were sent to England in disguise, to
-instigate the adherents of King James to take arms; a
-plot was also formed for the assassination of King William,
-and a French army marched to the coast to be in readiness
-to embark for England. Under these circumstances
-the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment and a number of other
-corps were ordered to return to England, where they
-arrived in March, 1696, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> landed
-at Gravesend. The conspirators for the assassination of
-King William were discovered; several persons were
-apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the
-French ports, and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1697</div>
-
-<p>In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded
-at Ryswick, and the British Monarch saw his efforts for
-the civil and religious liberties of Europe attended with
-success.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1698<br />1700</div>
-
-<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was afterwards sent to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span>
-Ireland, where it was stationed during the remainder of the
-reign of King William III.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1701</div>
-
-<p>On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment
-was conferred on Brigadier-General William
-Selwyn, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis,
-who was removed to the Second foot, then styled
-the Queen Dowager's regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1702</div>
-
-<p>King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded
-by Queen Anne, who declared war against France.
-Brigadier-General Selwyn was nominated Governor of
-Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of Major-General on
-the 10th of June, 1702. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment
-was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other
-corps also embarked for stations in the West Indies: the
-British government designing to make a general attack
-on the possessions of France and Spain in South America.</p>
-
-<p>Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded
-in the colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel,
-Thomas Handasyd, by commission dated the 20th
-of June, 1702.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1703</div>
-
-<p>A considerable body of troops arrived in the West
-Indies in 1703: but they were afterwards recalled to take
-part in the war in Europe. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment
-was left at the island of Jamaica, and during the
-reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in
-protecting Jamaica, and the other British settlements in
-the West Indies, which important duty it performed with
-reputation.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1704<br />1705</div>
-
-<p>While employed on this duty, the regiment received
-drafts from several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation
-of two companies was made to its establishment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1712</div>
-
-<p>Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General
-in December, 1705, and to that of Major-General
-in January, 1710. In 1712 he retired from the colonelcy,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span>
-resigning his commission in favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel
-Roger Handasyd, of the regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1713<br />1714</div>
-
-<p>In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace
-to Europe; and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was
-issued for the men of the regiment fit for duty to be formed
-into two independent companies for service at Jamaica:
-the officers and staff returning to Europe to recruit.</p>
-
-<p>The two independent companies thus formed from the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were the nucleus of the <span class="allsmcap">FORTY-NINTH</span>
-regiment, which was formed of independent companies at
-Jamaica in 1743.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1715<br />1718</div>
-
-<p>The officers and the serjeants not required for the
-independent companies, having arrived in England, were
-actively employed in recruiting in 1715; and in 1718
-the regiment proceeded to Ireland.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1719<br />1726</div>
-
-<p>The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight
-years from 1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned
-year, it proceeded to the island of Minorca,
-which had been captured by the English, in 1708, and
-was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in
-1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1727</div>
-
-<p>In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged
-<em>Gibraltar</em>, and a detachment of the regiment, being sent
-to reinforce the garrison, had the honor to take part in
-the successful defence of that important fortress. When
-the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment rejoined
-the regiment at Minorca.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1730</div>
-
-<p>Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with
-reputation until 1730, when he was removed to the
-Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by Brigadier-General
-William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1734</div>
-
-<p>Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth
-foot in 1734, when King George II. conferred the
-colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment on Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span>
-the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the First
-foot-guards.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1737</div>
-
-<p>On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable
-James St. Clair was removed to the First, the Royal
-regiment of foot, and his Majesty nominated Major-General
-John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the colonelcy
-of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1738</div>
-
-<p>Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November,
-1738, and the colonelcy was afterwards conferred on
-Colonel Thomas Paget, from the Thirty-second regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1739<br />1741</div>
-
-<p>In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of
-brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of May, 1741,
-and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by
-Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth foot.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1748<br />1749</div>
-
-<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was employed in the
-protection of the island of Minorca, during the whole of
-the War of the Austrian Succession, and, peace having
-been concluded, it was relieved from that duty in 1749,
-and proceeded to Ireland.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1751</div>
-
-<p>In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and
-distinctions of the several regiments of the army, dated
-the 1st of July, 1751, the facings of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment were directed to be of <em>pale buff</em>. The First, or
-King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second, or
-Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in
-the upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number
-of the Rank of the regiment, in gold Roman characters,
-within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1755<br />1756</div>
-
-<p>The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755
-by the aggressions of the French on the British territory in
-North America; and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was
-declared against France; in the same year the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment embarked from Ireland for North
-America.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1757</div>
-
-<p>In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span>
-Forty-third, Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the
-Sixtieth, under Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with
-the view of being employed in the attack of <em>Louisburg</em>,
-the capital of the French island of <em>Cape Breton</em>, situate
-in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was
-deferred until the following year, and the regiment was
-stationed in Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General
-O'Farrell died in the summer of this year, and the
-colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Brigadier-General
-Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of
-the Thirty-sixth regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1758</div>
-
-<p>Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the
-command of Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the
-regiment proceeded with the expedition commanded by
-Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, and a landing
-was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the 8th
-of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry.
-The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had Lieutenants Pierce Butler,
-John Jermyn, and William Hamilton wounded; also
-several private soldiers killed and wounded.<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p>
-
-<p>The siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, the capital of the island, was
-afterwards commenced; and in carrying on the approaches
-the troops underwent great fatigue with cheerful alacrity.
-By their perseverance, and the co-operation of the fleet,
-the town was taken in July, and two other islands in the
-Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the thanks
-of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for
-their conduct on this occasion.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1759</div>
-
-<p>During the year 1759 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment
-was stationed at Louisburg. Major-General James
-Wolfe proceeded up the river St. Lawrence, with a small<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span>
-armament,<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> and Quebec was captured; but the nation
-sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was
-killed in the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front
-of Quebec, on the 13th of September, 1759.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1760</div>
-
-<p>In the spring of 1760 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> and Fortieth
-regiments proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel
-Lord Rollo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, up the river St.
-Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they advanced upon
-<em>Montreal</em>, with the troops under Brigadier-General the
-Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in
-Canada were invaded at three points, and the Governor
-concentrated his forces at Montreal; but he was unable
-to withstand the valour and discipline of British troops,
-commanded by officers of talent and experience; he
-therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada,
-the French battalions becoming prisoners of war. The
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had thus the honor of taking part in the
-conquest of the two fine provinces of Upper and Lower
-Canada, which have since continued to form part of the
-possessions of the British Crown.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1761</div>
-
-<p>After the conquest of Canada, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-were removed to Albany, from whence they proceeded to
-New York, in April, 1761, and afterwards embarked,
-under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies.</p>
-
-<p>The island of <em>Dominica</em> had been declared neutral; but
-it was found to be so much under the influence of France,
-and proved a refuge to so many privateers of that nation,
-that the British government resolved to take possession of
-it. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and other corps under
-Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June,
-under cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span>
-the enemy from his batteries: the grenadiers of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment distinguished themselves on
-this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to
-submission with little loss.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1762</div>
-
-<p>From Dominica the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded to
-Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, and joined the troops assembled
-at that place under the orders of Major-General the
-Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the French
-island of <em>Martinique</em>. After several attempts on other
-parts of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des
-Navières Bay, on the 16th of January, 1762; the works
-on the heights of <em>Morne Tortenson</em> were captured on the
-24th of that month; <em>Morne Garnier</em> was carried on the
-27th; and the citadel of <em>Fort Royal</em> surrendered on the
-4th of February. These successes were followed by the
-surrender of the opulent city of St. Pierre, and the
-submission of the whole island to the British Crown. The
-Commander of the expedition stated in his despatch—"I
-cannot find words to render that ample justice which is
-due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have
-had the honor to command. The difficulties they had
-to encounter in the attack of an enemy possessed of
-every advantage of art and nature were great; and
-their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles,
-furnishes a noble example of British spirit."</p>
-
-<p>The capture of Martinique was followed by that of
-<em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em>; and the acquisition
-of these islands gave additional honor to the expedition of
-which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed part.</p>
-
-<p>Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering six hundred and
-two rank and file, under the command of Major Loftus,
-joined the expedition commanded by General the Earl of
-Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and important
-Spanish city of the <em>Havannah</em>, in the island of Cuba<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span>
-The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five
-companies of the Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under
-Brigadier-General Lord Rollo.</p>
-
-<p>Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament
-arrived within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th
-of June. A landing was effected on the following day,
-and the <em>Moro</em> fort, being the key-position of the extensive
-works which covered the town, was besieged. This proved
-an undertaking of great difficulty; but every obstacle
-was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea
-forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of
-July. An extensive series of batteries was prepared, and
-opened, on the 11th of August, so well-directed a fire on the
-works which protected the town, that the guns of the garrison
-were soon silenced, and the important city of the Havannah
-was surrendered to the British arms. Nine Spanish
-men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the
-stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour.</p>
-
-<p>In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who
-was drowned at sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by
-Major-General the Honorable Thomas Gage, from the
-Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which was raised in
-1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1763</div>
-
-<p>At the peace of Fontainebleau the <em>Havannah</em> was restored
-to Spain, in exchange for the province of Florida,
-on the continent of America; and in 1763 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment proceeded to <em>West Florida</em>.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1764<br />1765</div>
-
-<p>The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year
-1764, and in 1765 it was relieved from duty in that
-province, and embarked for Great Britain.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1766<br />1770<br />1772<br />1773</div>
-
-<p>From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at
-various stations in England; during the years 1770,
-1771, and 1772, it performed duty in Scotland; and in
-1773 it proceeded to Ireland.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1775</div>
-
-<p>While the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were stationed in Ireland
-the misunderstanding between the English government
-and the British provinces in North America, on the subject
-of taxation, was followed by hostilities. The regiment
-embarked from Ireland for North America in 1775, and
-joined the troops at Boston under General Gage.</p>
-
-<p>During the night of the 16th of June the Americans
-commenced fortifying the heights on the peninsula of
-Charlestown, called <em>Bunker's Hill</em>; and on the following
-day they were attacked by the flank companies of the
-British corps, and by a few regiments, and driven from
-their works. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> lost their commanding
-officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who
-died of his wounds. He was succeeded by Major
-James Campbell.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1776</div>
-
-<p>General Sir William Howe assumed the command of
-the British troops in North America, on General Gage
-returning to England in October, 1775; in March, 1776,
-Boston was vacated, when the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded
-to Nova Scotia.</p>
-
-<p>From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition
-to Staten Island, near New York; and, additional
-troops having arrived from Europe, it was formed in
-brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Sixty-third,
-under Brigadier-General Francis Smith.</p>
-
-<p>A landing was effected on <em>Long Island</em> on the 22nd of
-August; and on the 27th of that month the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-were engaged in driving the Americans from
-their positions at <em>Flat Bush</em> to their fortified lines at
-<em>Brooklyn</em>. The flank companies had several men killed
-and wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion
-companies was limited to two men.</p>
-
-<p>The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and
-passed the river to New York. They were followed by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span>
-the British, who gained possession of New York, captured
-Fort Washington, and reduced a great part of the
-Jerseys.</p>
-
-<p>During the winter the regiment was detached, with
-several other corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and
-Earl Percy, against <em>Rhode Island</em>. The regiment embarked
-on this service in the beginning of December, and
-a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that
-month, the island was speedily reduced to submission.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1777</div>
-
-<p>During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in
-Rhode Island. On the 10th of July the American
-Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode Island with a few active
-men, surprised Major-General Richard Prescott in his
-quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1778</div>
-
-<p>In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General
-Sullivan had taken the command of the American troops
-at Providence, with the view of making a descent on
-Rhode Island; and on the night of the 24th of May the
-battalion companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, the flank
-companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians,
-embarked under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-to attack the enemy's quarters. After landing
-three miles below <em>Warren</em>, early on the following morning,
-a detachment under Captain Seir of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a
-Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another
-detachment destroyed a number of boats, a galley
-of six twelve pounders, and two sloops, in the Kickamuct
-River. The party then marched to Warren, destroyed a
-park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer
-sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further
-quantity of stores was destroyed. The Americans assembled
-in great numbers, and fired on the British from
-a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span>
-<span class="smcap">Hamilton</span> of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, eight British, and
-four Hessian soldiers were wounded.</p>
-
-<p>On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major
-Eyre of the Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to
-a creek near Taunton River, and inflicted a severe loss on
-the Americans.</p>
-
-<p>The King of France having united with the Americans,
-a French armament arrived off the coast, and formidable
-preparations were made for the re-capture of Rhode
-Island. The French fleet, however, sustained some
-severe losses from a storm, and from the English navy.
-A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan
-landed at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and
-commenced the siege of <em>Newport</em>, in defence of which place
-the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were employed. The place being defended
-with great resolution, and the Americans being disappointed
-of aid from the French fleet, they raised the siege,
-and retired on the 29th of August. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth and
-Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General
-Smith, by the east road, to intercept the retreating
-enemy. A stand was made by the Americans, and some
-sharp fighting occurred, in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished
-themselves. The Americans were driven from <em>Quakers'
-Hill</em>, when they fell back to their works at the north end
-of the island, from which they afterwards withdrew.
-Major-General Pigot stated in his public despatch,—"To
-these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add
-Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the
-general tribute due to the good conduct of every individual
-under his command, has particularly distinguished
-Lieut.-Colonel <span class="smcap">Campbell</span> and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment, on whom, by their position, the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span>
-greatest weight of the action fell." The regiment had
-eleven rank and file killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns
-Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two serjeants, and forty-eight
-rank and file wounded; one man missing.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1779</div>
-
-<p>The British Commander-in-Chief in North America,
-Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, having resolved to
-vacate Rhode Island, the regiment embarked from thence
-on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to New
-York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1780</div>
-
-<p>During the remainder of the American War the regiment
-was stationed at New York and the posts in advance
-of that city.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1782</div>
-
-<p>General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed
-to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and
-King George III. conferred the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment on Major-General Charles O'Hara,
-from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards.</p>
-
-<p>A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to
-the regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be
-designated the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE</span> regiment,
-in order that a connexion between the corps and
-that county should be cultivated, with the view of promoting
-the success of the recruiting service.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1783</div>
-
-<p>The American War having terminated, the regiment
-returned to Europe in 1783 and was stationed in South
-Britain.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1785</div>
-
-<p>In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor,
-under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and
-furnished the usual guard at the Castle, where his Majesty
-resided, an "<span class="allsmcap">ORDER OF MERIT</span>" was instituted in the corps,
-with the view of promoting good order and discipline,—the
-field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time
-being, to be members of the order. The order consisted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span>
-of <span class="allsmcap">THREE CLASSES</span>: the first wore a silver medal gilt,
-suspended to a blue riband two inches broad, and worn
-round the neck; the second a silver medal, and the third
-a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates for the
-third class must have served seven years with an unblemished
-character; for the second, fourteen; and for
-the first, twenty-one years. On the 1st of July, the
-<span class="smcap">King</span> was graciously pleased to accept from Lieut.-Colonel
-Crosbie a medal of the first class of the regimental <span class="smcap">Order
-of Merit</span>: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment
-being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on
-parade, with the non-commissioned officers and soldiers
-selected to receive medals in front, the rules of the order
-were read; the corps presented arms, the band played
-"God save the King;" the members of the order took
-off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each
-member with his medal; the drums beating a point of
-war during the whole time.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1787</div>
-
-<p>In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and
-Jersey, where its establishment was augmented; and it
-was ordered to be held in readiness for foreign service,
-in consequence of some revolutionary proceedings in
-Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to Portsmouth,
-and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced.
-Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of
-the Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1788</div>
-
-<p>On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the
-regiment received a very flattering mark of the high
-estimation in which its conduct was held by the inhabitants.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1790</div>
-
-<p>The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring
-of 1790, and proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on
-the 5th of April.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1791</div>
-
-<p>Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the
-Seventy-fourth Highlanders in April, 1791, and was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span>
-succeeded in the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of
-the Army in Ireland.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1792</div>
-
-<p>In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform,
-and the establishment was augmented.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1793</div>
-
-<p>Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France,
-and the violent conduct of the republican government in
-that country occasioned a war between Great Britain and
-France, which commenced in 1793. In September of
-that year the flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose
-of taking part in the capture of the French West India
-islands. They were followed by the battalion companies
-in December.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1794</div>
-
-<p>The flank companies joined the armament under General
-Sir Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing
-at three different points on the island of <em>Martinique</em>, in
-February, 1794, and accomplished in a short period the
-conquest of that valuable colony.</p>
-
-<p>The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness
-Prince Edward, afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the
-light infantry under Major-General Dundas, were engaged
-in the conquest of <em>St. Lucia</em> in the beginning of April.</p>
-
-<p>After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on
-<em>Guadaloupe</em>, and that valuable island was speedily rescued
-from the power of the republican government of France.</p>
-
-<p>The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique,
-where it was joined by the flank companies.</p>
-
-<p>Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel
-Lysaght, proceeded to the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>, and
-formed part of the garrison of Cape St. Nicholas Mole:
-and five companies joined the garrison of <em>Busy-town</em>,
-which place was besieged by the enemy.</p>
-
-<p>In April, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Twenty-third, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span>
-Forty-first regiments, with some other troops, embarked
-under the command of Brigadier-General John Whyte,
-for the attack of <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, the capital of the French
-possessions in the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>. A landing was
-effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting occurred,
-in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished themselves:
-<em>Fort Bizzotton</em> was captured, and the enemy was
-forced to abandon <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, which was taken possession
-of by the British troops. The regiment had
-Captain Wallace killed on this occasion, also several
-private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a
-malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British
-lost forty officers and six hundred soldiers by disease
-within two months after the capture of the place.</p>
-
-<p>A detachment of the regiment formed part of the
-garrison of <em>Fort Bizzotton</em>, which was attacked by two
-thousand of the enemy on the 5th of December. The
-British defended their post with great gallantry, and
-repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished himself.</p>
-
-<p>Another portion of the regiment was stationed at
-Jeremie, and a detachment at Irois.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1795</div>
-
-<p>Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St.
-Domingo, the regiment was relieved from duty at that
-island, and returned to England in 1795.</p>
-
-<p>Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh
-Light Dragoons, and the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-was conferred on Major-General William Crosbie, from
-the Eighty-ninth regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1798</div>
-
-<p>The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its
-ranks until December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey.</p>
-
-<p>Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded
-by Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the
-Eighty-first regiment.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1799</div>
-
-<p>In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from
-Guernsey, and landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that
-month.</p>
-
-<p>On its return from the West Indies, the regiment
-enlisted a number of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it
-received drafts of boys, or lads, from other corps; it was
-designated a boy regiment, and sent to the Cape of Good
-Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be
-gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become
-better adapted for service in the East Indies, than recruits
-sent direct from Europe to India.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1800</div>
-
-<p>In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked
-for the Cape of Good Hope, where it arrived in
-May and June following. The companies on board of
-one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in consequence
-of their crowded state: the crew was composed
-of Lascars, among whom much disease prevailed; the
-infection was communicated to the soldiers, and the men
-of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> suffered in their health; sixty
-soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital, before
-the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape
-in a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working
-the vessel during the voyage, and the masts and rigging
-had been damaged during a gale of wind.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1801</div>
-
-<p>The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg,
-and afterwards encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land
-projecting from the east side of Table Mountain. The
-sick men received every attention which could be procured
-by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the
-Cape, and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters,
-which were removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801,
-and again encamped at Wynberg in March. In May
-the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in September
-joined the camp at Rondebosch.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p>
-
-<p>The lads having become much improved in size and
-strength, the light infantry company joined the flank
-battalion; and the grenadiers were detached to the interior,
-and stationed at Graaff Reinett.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1802</div>
-
-<p>Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was
-removed to Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett.</p>
-
-<p>The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed
-to India, it was joined by a number of volunteers from
-corps serving at the Cape of Good Hope, and embarked
-from thence in September, October, and November, when
-it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and
-fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for
-duty.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1803</div>
-
-<p>In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment
-landed at Fort William, Calcutta, where the other companies
-had previously arrived.</p>
-
-<p>At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao
-Scindia and Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers
-of the Peishwa, and were desolating the Mahratta states
-with war; and these two chiefs, with the Rajah of Berar,
-formed a confederacy against the British and their allies.
-Under these circumstances the flank companies of the
-regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the
-field force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for
-the attack of the province of Cuttack. On entering that
-province, the troops had to overcome numerous difficulties
-from the nature of the country, the season of the year,
-and the resistance of the enemy, which they surmounted
-with great gallantry.</p>
-
-<p>On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment highly distinguished themselves
-at the capture of the fort of <em>Barrabatta</em> by storm, when
-they led the assault, and took several of the enemy's colours.
-They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and eight<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span>
-soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth
-Native Infantry, were publicly displayed at
-Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort William, with
-an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1804</div>
-
-<p>The flank companies of the regiment remained in the
-field, and the splendid successes of the British arms appeared
-likely to bring about a speedy termination of the
-war; but hostilities were protracted by the defection of the
-Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two
-men killed and three wounded at the capture of <em>Deeg</em>, in
-December, and were engaged in the attempt to bring the
-refractory Rajah Sing to submission by the siege of the
-strong fortress of Bhurtpore.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1805</div>
-
-<p>In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its
-march from Fort William, for the Upper provinces, and
-in January, 1805, it halted and encamped at Benares;
-but resumed its march in February, and proceeded to
-Cawnpore.</p>
-
-<p>The siege of <em>Bhurtpore</em> was carried on, and the flank
-companies were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to
-capture that place by storm on the 9th of January, when
-they had eleven men killed and twenty-four wounded.
-They were also engaged in the desperate attempt to
-capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when
-they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains
-Lindsay and McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman,
-and Caswell, and thirty-one non-commissioned officers and
-soldiers, wounded. At the third unsuccessful attack, on
-the 21st of February, they had two serjeants and three
-soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded.</p>
-
-<p>Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn
-hope on each occasion, and his gallant conduct was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span>
-rewarded with the commission of ensign in the Sixty-fifth
-regiment.</p>
-
-<p>Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace
-with the British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore,
-and the surviving officers and soldiers of the flank companies
-joined the regiment at Cawnpore, in June.</p>
-
-<p>Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority,
-and Scindia evinced a disposition to renew hostilities.
-These events occasioned the regiment to quit Cawnpore,
-in October, to pursue the army of Holkar, who was driven
-from place to place, until the British troops arrived at the
-banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted, and
-a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia
-also concluded a second treaty, and the British power and
-influence in India were thus augmented and consolidated.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1806</div>
-
-<p>From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched
-to Delhi, where it arrived in February, 1806, and in
-March it was removed to Muttra, where it received the
-thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the Governor-General
-in Council, for its conduct during the war.</p>
-
-<p>On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in
-1806, was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by
-Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth
-foot.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1807</div>
-
-<p>Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded
-to Berhampore, where it arrived on the 7th of August.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1809</div>
-
-<p>Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed
-colonel of the regiment on the 18th of September,
-1809, from the Fifty-fourth foot, in succession to Sir
-James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the Seventy-eighth
-Highlanders.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1810</div>
-
-<p>The regiment remained at Berhampore until August,
-1810, when it embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort
-William, in order to form part of the expedition against<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span>
-the <em>Mauritius</em>, under Major-General the Honorable J.
-Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of
-Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition,
-and on the following day the troops advanced towards the
-capital; being exposed to severe heat, and unable to
-procure water, the soldiers became exhausted, and arriving
-at the powder-mills, five miles from Port Louis, they halted
-near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of
-December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in
-force, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> took part and had several men wounded.
-The French were driven from their ground, and they
-fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front
-of the position occupied by the French. Being unable to
-withstand the valour and discipline of the invading army,
-the governor, General de Caen, surrendered the island to
-the British arms.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1811</div>
-
-<p>After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was
-stationed a short time at that island, and in January it
-sent a detachment of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave,
-in the Island of Madagascar. In March and April
-the regiment was removed to the island of Bourbon, where
-it was joined by the survivors of the detachment from
-Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers
-and twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by
-the enemy, and re-captured by the British ships of war.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1812<br />1813</div>
-
-<p>In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius;
-but again proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was
-removed to the Mauritius a second time in May, 1813.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1814<br />1815</div>
-
-<p>A number of men having volunteered from the militia
-to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, His Royal Highness
-the Prince Regent was pleased to approve of a <em>second
-battalion</em> being formed, and it was placed on the establishment
-of the army on the 10th of February, 1814.
-The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span>
-the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration
-of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne of France, the second
-battalion was disbanded at Chester, on the 24th of October,
-transferring the men fit for duty to the first battalion,
-which they joined at the Mauritius, in April, 1815, in so
-good a state, as to be specially noticed in general orders,
-and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party,
-received the thanks of the governor.</p>
-
-<p>On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first
-battalion of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first
-battalion of the Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank
-companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, were formed
-into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June embarked
-from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The
-troops arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August;
-re-embarked on the 23rd of September, and landed at
-the Mauritius on the 14th of November, 1815. The
-light company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, while
-on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between
-Ceylon and the opposite continent. The conduct of the
-flank companies, while in India, was highly commended
-in general orders issued before they embarked from Fort
-William,—on their return to the Mauritius.</p>
-
-<p>While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder
-of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was placed
-under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven miles from Port
-Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing disease
-at the Mauritius. There being but a small force
-left on the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency
-by disease, a meditated insurrection had nearly attained
-an outbreak, but for timely information.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1819</div>
-
-<p>The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius,
-under the command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July,
-1819, when it embarked for England. Previous to quitting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span>
-the island it was inspected by Major-General Ralph
-Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his admiration
-of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while
-serving under his command.</p>
-
-<p>Though the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had participated in the
-capture of the Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the
-island presented a large and handsome gold snuff-box to
-the regiment on its embarkation for England, bearing
-this inscription, "<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment de S. M.—Souvenir
-des Habitans de l'île Maurice</i>; 1819;" thus
-testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly
-and soldierlike conduct of the corps during its
-service of nine years in the colony.</p>
-
-<p>After landing at Gosport, in November and December,
-the regiment marched to Northampton, under the orders
-of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.B.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1821</div>
-
-<p>In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to
-Liverpool, where it embarked on the 9th of October, for
-Ireland. Having landed at Dublin on the 10th of October,
-the regiment marched to Buttevant, with detachments at
-Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and Ballyclough.</p>
-
-<p>Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in
-consequence of the riotous and violent proceedings of the
-misguided peasantry at this part of the country, and the
-disposition evinced to violate the law.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1822</div>
-
-<p>On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three
-thousand men assembled with such arms as they could
-procure, for an attack on Newmarket; and they were
-repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men of the regiment,
-under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel
-Green, who received the expression of the approbation of
-His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief,
-and were presented with a silver cup, by the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span>
-noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of the town and
-vicinity of Newmarket,—"In testimony of the high sense
-entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and
-defeating an armed body of three thousand insurgents,
-with thirty men."</p>
-
-<p>A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the
-regiment performed many marches, and much extra
-duty, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1823<br />1824</div>
-
-<p>The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at
-Buttevant during the year 1823, and the first nine months
-of 1824; and the state of the regiment was repeatedly
-commended in orders by the General Officers who made
-the half-yearly inspections.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1826</div>
-
-<p>In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it
-was subsequently stationed in Galway, and in the summer
-of 1826 it was divided into six service and four depôt
-companies, in order that the former might proceed on
-foreign service.</p>
-
-<p>The service companies embarked from Cork in November
-and December, in three divisions, commanded by
-Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, and
-Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division arrived at
-the island of Jamaica in February, 1827.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1827</div>
-
-<p>The service companies suffered severely from the effects
-of the climate of Jamaica; in September and October,
-1827, they lost three officers, seventeen serjeants, and one
-hundred and twenty men, from fever; the total loss during
-the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James
-Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant Edward
-Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant
-William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two
-non-commissioned officers and soldiers.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1828<br />1829</div>
-
-<p>In the following year the losses were much less numerous;
-and in April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span>
-arrived and assumed the command. In June of the same
-year, the regiment received the thanks of the civil authorities
-for the prompt assistance rendered in extinguishing
-an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1830</div>
-
-<p>On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked
-from Cork for South Britain, where they were
-stationed until the summer of 1836, when they embarked
-from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1831</div>
-
-<p>The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable
-insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica in the
-winter of 1831-2; the two flank companies were
-encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the following
-winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in
-Jamaica, in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks
-of the custos and magistrates were awarded to the corps
-for its good conduct.<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1837</div>
-
-<p>The service companies performed duty at the island of
-Jamaica until the beginning of 1837, when they commenced
-embarking for Europe, and landed at Cork in
-March and April; they were afterwards joined by the
-depôt companies.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenotex">1838<br />1839<br />1840</div>
-
-<p>The regiment remained in Ireland during the years
-1838 and 1839; and embarking from Dublin on the 19th
-of December, 1840, landed at Liverpool on the 21st of
-that month.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1841</div>
-
-<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, having been selected<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span>
-to proceed to India, embarked from Gravesend in January,
-1841, and landed at Bombay in May following. It afterwards
-proceeded to Poonah, where an encampment was
-formed, and the regiment was stationed there during the
-remainder of the year.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1842</div>
-
-<p>In the following year the regiment quitted the camp
-at Poonah by divisions, and proceeding to the country of
-Scinde, was encamped some time near Kurrachee. The
-regiment was encamped in two separate divisions at
-Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its
-ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its
-prevalence a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole,
-consisting of two companies, was ordered to proceed by
-the Indus, in the month of April, 1842, to Sukkur, in
-Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal of the British
-force from Beloochistan.</p>
-
-<p>The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the
-British in 1839, and application was made to the Ameers,
-who governed the country, for a portion of land on the banks
-of the river. This they agreed to give; but at the same
-time meditated the destruction of the British power in the
-country by treachery. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> quitted the
-camp at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the
-country.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1843</div>
-
-<p>The regiment formed part of the force assembled under
-Major-General Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in
-the destruction of the fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, in the desert,
-on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843.</p>
-
-<p>Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled
-"<em>The Conquest of Scinde</em>," has given, with his characteristic
-eloquence, the following spirited description of the
-march to <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, a march which His Grace the
-Duke of Wellington described in the House of Lords, "<em>as
-one of the most curious military feats he had ever known to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span>
-be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life.
-Sir Charles Napier</em> (added His Grace) <em>moved his troops
-through the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns
-transported under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and
-in a manner the most extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat
-of the enemy which rendered it impossible for them ever to
-regain their positions</em>."</p>
-
-<p>"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness
-through which they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were
-passing. The sand-hills stretched north and south for
-hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at top, and
-most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore
-after a placid tide. Varying in their heights,
-their breadth and steepness, they presented one uniform
-surface, but while some were only a mile broad, others
-were more than ten miles across; some were of gentle
-slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the
-howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The
-sand was mingled with shells, and ran in great streams
-resembling numerous rivers, skirted on each side by
-parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle, yet
-thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and
-wild boar, and the prints of small deer's footsteps, were
-sometimes seen at first, but they soon disappeared, and
-then the solitude of the waste was unbroken.</p>
-
-<p>"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this
-gloomy region, living from hand to mouth, uncertain
-each morning if water could be found in the evening;
-and many times it was not found. They were not even
-sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and
-untiring strength, they continued their dreary dangerous
-way. The camels found very little food, and got weak,
-but the stout infantry helped to drag the heavy howitzers
-up the sandy steeps; and all the troops, despising<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span>
-the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked
-with a power and will that overcame every obstacle.
-On the eighth day they reached <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, eager
-to strike and storm, and then was seen how truly laid
-down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in
-war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan,
-with a strong fortress well provided, and having a garrison
-six times as numerous as the band coming to
-assail him, had fled with his treasure two days before;
-taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by
-tracks with which his people were well acquainted,
-leaving all his stores of grain and powder behind."</p>
-
-<p>As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in
-which the Beloochees might be able to resist British
-supremacy, Major-General Sir Charles Napier determined
-upon destroying the fortress. It was a place of great
-strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks, into
-which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing
-down, so that recourse was had to mining. The place
-was full of gunpowder and grain, and the former was
-employed in blowing up the fortress, which was effected
-on the 15th of January.</p>
-
-<p>After this difficult and harassing service, the troops
-returned triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr,
-where Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited
-his whole army. It is to be observed that the
-march was performed without the loss of a man, or without
-even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed,
-and their plan of campaign frustrated.</p>
-
-<p>A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the
-14th of February: directions were sent to the British
-political resident, Major Outram, by the Ameers, to
-quit <em>Hyderabad</em>, the capital, and before this was complied
-with, <em>eight thousand</em> Beloochees, commanded by several<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span>
-Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into
-the enclosure of the British residency. The light company
-of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering <em>one
-hundred</em> men, under Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenant
-F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only
-force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded
-by a wall from four to five feet high. The gallant
-officers and soldiers of this company kept the eight
-thousand Scindian troops, with six pieces of artillery, at
-bay nearly four hours; and when their ammunition was
-nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with Major
-Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels,
-joined the troops under Major-General Sir Charles
-Napier, at Hala. The light company had two men killed
-and four wounded on this occasion.</p>
-
-<p>The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled
-a numerous force to destroy the few British
-troops in the country. Major-General Sir Charles Napier,
-trusting to the valour of the troops under his orders,
-advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February,
-<em>twenty-two thousand</em> Scindian troops were discovered in
-position behind the bank of a river at <em>Meeanee</em>. The
-British, mustering <em>two thousand eight hundred</em> men, advanced
-in <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">echelon</i> of regiments to attack their numerous
-opponents, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, commanded by
-Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead
-the attack. A numerous body of Beloochees discharged
-their matchlocks and pistols at the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and
-then rushed forward sword in hand to close upon the
-British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went
-down under the superior power of the musket and bayonet.</p>
-
-<p>After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated,
-and, on the day following the victory, six of the Ameers
-delivered their swords to the British General upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span>
-field of battle. The Beloochees lost five thousand men,
-and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure were taken,
-together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of
-February, the British colours waved in triumph over the
-fortress of <em>Hyderabad</em>.</p>
-
-<p>In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "<cite>The
-Conquest of Scinde</cite>," is given the following spirited and
-picturesque description of the battle of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p>
-
-<p>"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and
-covered by the village of Kattree, which was filled with
-men; that flank offered no weak point. But in the
-Shikargah on their left the General instantly detected
-a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was
-covered by a wall, having only one opening, not very
-wide, through which it was evident the Beloochees
-meant to pour out on the flank and rear of the advancing
-British line. The General rode near this wall,
-and found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer,
-and marked it had no loop-holes for the enemy to
-shoot through; he rode into the opening under a play
-of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall, saw there
-was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over
-the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the
-aid of heroism. Taking a company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>,
-he thrust them at once into the opening, telling
-their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block up that
-entrance; to die there, if it must be,—never to give way!
-And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he
-died there, but the opening was defended. The great
-disparity of numbers was thus abated, and the action
-of six thousand men paralysed by the more skilful
-action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to
-numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won
-Blenheim for the Duke of Marlborough.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter illowp59" id="PL_2" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_032fp.jpg" alt="" />
- <div class="caption">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
- </div>
-</div>
-<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p>
-<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p>
-
-<p>"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments,
-approached the enemy's front. The British
-right passed securely under the wall of the Shikargah,
-cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling
-sound of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the
-dead level of the plain was swept by the Beloochee
-cannon and matchlocks, which were answered from
-time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for
-rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to
-close with their unseen foes. When the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-had got within a hundred yards of the high
-sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at
-the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees
-could be just seen, bending with fiery glances over
-the levelled matchlocks, and the voice of the General,
-shrill and clear, was heard along the line, commanding
-the charge.</p>
-
-<p>"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were
-run forward into position, the infantry closed upon the
-Fulaillee with a run, and rushed up the sloping bank.
-The Beloochees, having their matchlocks laid ready in
-rest along the summit, waited until the assailants were
-within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the
-rapid pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope
-on the inside, deceived their aim, and the execution
-was not great; the next moment the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear down all
-before them, but they staggered back in amazement
-at the forest of swords waving in their front! Thick
-as standing corn, and gorgeous as a field of flowers,
-stood the Beloochees in their many-coloured garments
-and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed of the
-Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered
-the plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span>
-large dark shields, they shook their sharp swords,
-beaming in the sun, their shouts rolled like a peal of
-thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed forwards,
-and full against the front of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-dashed with demoniac strength and ferocity. But with
-shouts as loud, and shrieks as wild and fierce as theirs,
-and hearts as big, and arms as strong, the Irish soldiers
-met them with that queen of weapons the musket, and
-sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood."</p>
-
-<p>The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier testify the part borne by the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> in the victory of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p>
-
-<p>"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely
-wounded as with the high courage of a soldier he
-led his regiment (<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>) up the desperate
-bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains
-Tucker and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and
-Phayre, were all wounded, while gloriously animating
-their men to sustain the shock of numbers."</p>
-
-<p>"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant
-Wood, all fell honorably, urging on the assault with
-unmitigated valour.</p>
-
-<p>"Major Poole, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and Captain
-Jackson of the Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded
-to the command of those regiments, proved
-themselves worthy of their dangerous posts.</p>
-
-<p>"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General,
-Lieutenant McMurdo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment,
-had his horse killed, and, while on foot leading
-some soldiers in <ins class="corr" id="tn-34" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'a deperate dash'">
-a desperate dash</ins> down the enemy's side of the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has
-greatly assisted me by his activity and zeal during the
-whole of our operations.</p>
-
-<p>"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span>
-which took place between our soldiers and their
-opponents, too numerous for detail in this despatch, yet
-well meriting a record."</p>
-
-<p>In the <span class="allsmcap">NOTIFICATION</span> of the Right Honorable Lord
-Ellenborough, the Governor-General of India, it was
-directed,</p>
-
-<p>"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad,
-shall be sent to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal
-column, whereon shall be inscribed in the English, and
-two native languages, the names of Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several officers
-mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and
-likewise the names of the several officers, non-commissioned
-officers, and privates mentioned in the reports,
-that thus the names may be for ever recorded of those
-who, at <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, obtained for themselves that glory in
-the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier."</p>
-
-<p>Major Poole, commanding the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment,
-in consequence of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather
-having been severely wounded, stated in his report,
-respecting the soldiers of the regiment under his command,
-who had distinguished themselves in the battle of
-Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they
-feel difficulty in making selections, where the conduct
-of every man of their companies was so satisfactory.
-In so general a field of action and persevering exertion,
-I equally feel at a loss where to draw a distinction;
-but it may be proper to mention the names of Private
-James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a
-standard whilst we were actively engaged with the
-enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who shot,
-bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee
-Mahomed Khan, who was mounted, and directing the
-enemy in the hottest part of the engagement."</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p>
-
-<p>The loss of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment at the battle
-of Meeanee was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> one serjeant,
-and twenty-two rank and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L.
-Pennefather, Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenants W. M.
-G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R. Pennefather
-and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and
-fifty privates wounded.</p>
-
-<p>The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs
-who continued to resist assembled an army, which was
-commanded by Meer Shere Mahomed. The British advanced
-from <em>Hyderabad</em> at daybreak on the morning of
-the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock
-twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order
-of battle behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately
-made for commencing the action, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment led the attack in gallant style. Major
-John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D.
-George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic
-example of these officers, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> advanced
-steadily against the enemy's left, exposed to a heavy fire
-of matchlocks, without returning a shot, until they arrived
-within forty paces of the entrenchment, when they stormed
-the position occupied by the Beloochees with that determined
-bravery which has ever distinguished British
-soldiers. Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the
-rampart, seized one of the enemy's standards, and was
-severely wounded while in the act of waving it, and cheering
-on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized another
-standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span>
-example of their officers, displayed that heroism which
-adorns the British military character. Privates J. Doherty,
-C. Lynar, E. Jobin, J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G.
-Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot the defenders,
-and then captured fourteen standards, and made five
-prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury
-also captured standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot
-one of the Scindians, and took from him a silver-knobbed
-standard. The Beloochee infantry and artillery fought
-well, but were unable, although greatly superior in
-numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined
-soldiers.</p>
-
-<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public
-despatch, "The battle was decided by the troop of Horse
-Artillery, and Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p>
-
-<p>"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant
-Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too
-highly; and regret to say, he has received a sabre
-wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut down in
-single combat during the day.</p>
-
-<p>"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and
-the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates
-under their command, I have to return my thanks for
-their valiant bearing in the action."</p>
-
-<p>The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven
-pieces of cannon were taken in position on the nullah,
-together with seventeen standards. The Beloochee force
-was completely defeated, and their commander, Meer Shere
-Mahomed, fled to the desert.<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> Among the killed was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span>
-the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee.
-Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed
-on this occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J.
-Coote, H. A. G. Evans, and John Brennan, Ensign
-Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one drummer, four
-corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates
-wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment
-mustered only five hundred and sixty-two rank and file;
-the remainder being sick and convalescent, having been
-left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde.</p>
-
-<p>As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories,
-Her Majesty, on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint
-Major-General Sir Charles James Napier a Knight
-Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of
-the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span>
-Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George,
-and Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions
-of the Bath, and their brevet rank was dated from the
-above period.</p>
-
-<p>Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command
-that a medal should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned
-Officers, and Soldiers engaged in the battles
-of Meeanee and Hyderabad.</p>
-
-<p>On the 18th of August, 1843, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-received the Royal authority to bear upon the regimental
-or second colour, and on the appointments, the word
-"<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," in commemoration of its distinguished gallantry
-in the campaign against the Ameers of that
-country, during the early part of the year 1843.</p>
-
-<p>Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred
-increased honor on the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, by authorising
-the corps to bear on the regimental colour and appointments,
-in addition to the word "<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," the words
-"<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>" and "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>," in commemoration of
-the distinguished gallantry displayed in the general
-engagements fought at those places respectively, on the
-17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843.</p>
-
-<p>On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament
-were voted to Major-General Sir Charles Napier,
-G.C.B., and to the troops under his command, "<em>for the
-eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by him in
-the recent military operations in</em> <span class="smcap">Scinde</span>, <em>particularly in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span>
-the two decisive battles of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>;"
-to the several officers serving under Sir Charles Napier,
-"<em>for their unwearied zeal and conspicuous gallantry</em>;" and
-to the troops, "<em>for their brave and meritorious conduct</em>."</p>
-
-<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the
-regiments at Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them
-for their gallantry in this campaign, addressed the soldiers
-as follows:—</p>
-
-<p>"Soldiers! the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em> is among those of
-which history will speak as proving the superiority of
-<em>discipline</em> over numbers; and it is well, Soldiers! that we
-should dwell upon these things; that we may understand
-how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed.</p>
-
-<p>"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would
-not have won the victories of <em>Meeanee</em> and <em>Hyderabad</em>!
-Valour is like the <em>Strength</em> of a man, Discipline is like
-his <em>Mind</em>, that directs his strength to effective exertion.
-If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one strikes
-at random, while the other boxes with science, planting
-every blow home, we know how the fight must be soon
-decided. So it is with two armies,—the one disciplined,
-the other without discipline. The General of the disciplined
-Army directs his columns upon that part of the
-enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as
-the mind of the boxer directs his blow against the opening
-offered by his unskilful enemy. But this is not all,—obedience
-to orders (which is discipline) enables us to
-bring up all the necessary provisions of war to the day
-and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at hand
-to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and
-the body are thrown forward to support and give vigour
-to the blow of the pugilist. But not only is valour
-useless without discipline, but it is even dangerous;
-for without discipline the rashly brave would run<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span>
-heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek
-'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus
-the Army would be scattered: but when an Army is
-disciplined, the ponderous charges of Cavalry, the steady
-tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing to charge
-with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery
-pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously
-to strike and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers,
-are Medals won, more by discipline than by any extraordinary
-efforts of individual courage. To reward
-this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man
-who wears this honoured badge is known to the world
-as one who, in the midst of the noise, the danger, and
-confusion of battle, had obeyed orders, and performed
-the three great duties of a Soldier—first, not to fire
-without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so
-as to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to
-keep his rank and dress upon his colours. The Medal
-tells the world that he has bravely done these things,
-and no man can walk with one of these Medals on his
-breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid
-Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be
-low caste, but the Soldier, who bears on his breast a
-medal won in battle, is above all the castes in the world.
-The pleasure of giving you these Medals, Soldiers of
-the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to
-me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing
-the reward which you honorably earned, and my
-satisfaction is increased by the presence of so large a
-body of Europeans, for it affords me an opportunity of
-saying to my countrymen that they will find these swarthy
-warriors of the East <ins class="corr" id="tn-41" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'stanch and true'">
-staunch and true</ins> in action as they were at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed
-the example set them by the glorious <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></span>
-regiment. They will fight to the last drop of their blood,
-and stand or fall by the side of their European comrades.
-If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times,
-War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted
-to lead an Army into the field, I should go into
-action with perfect confidence in the courage of the
-Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their gallantry,
-not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and
-from my own knowledge, of their daring courage.</p>
-
-<p>"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner
-to the Officers now before me, and in justice to them
-say, that their conduct, and the conduct of all the British
-Officers in these two battles, was very noble. For several
-hours the two lines were fighting close to each other,
-and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw
-the British Officers display their worthiness as Military
-leaders, and with unflinching intrepidity animating their
-Soldiers to battle! To them, therefore, I will now first
-distribute these honorable decorations."</p>
-
-<p>The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the
-line of officers of several regiments, and who had not
-before received their medals, his Excellency presented
-each with the Medal,—the bands playing "God save the
-Queen."</p>
-
-<p>On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston,
-of the 25th N. I., the General observed,—"But for you,
-Marston, I probably should not have had this pleasure;"
-alluding to this Officer having intrepidly thrown himself
-in front of his General when attacked by a Beloochee
-Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach
-the General.</p>
-
-<p>On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and
-proceeded to Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters
-embarked on the 27th of April, and sailed to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span>
-Bombay. Previously to the embarkation of the regiment
-for Bombay, the following order was issued by Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:—</p>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-
-<p class="right">"<em>27th April, 1843.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment!</p>
-
-<p> "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and
-you also know how much I dislike doing so. But nothing
-shall stand in the way of your health and well-being,
-that I have the power to remove. Cut up by
-Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may
-again join us, and add to the Laurels with which you are
-already decorated.</p>
-
-<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br />
-<em>Governor</em>."</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd
-of May, was distinguished by high marks of honor, by
-command of the Governor, on which occasion the accompanying
-order was issued:—</p>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-
-<p class="right">"<em>Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">"<span class="smcap">Garrison Orders.</span></p>
-
-<p> "By the Honorable the Governor.—The Head-Quarters
-of Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment
-of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be disembarked
-to-morrow morning at sunrise.</p>
-
-<p>"On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief
-of the Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of
-honor to this distinguished Corps, will himself receive
-it at the Apollo Pier.</p>
-
-<p>"On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute
-is to be fired from the Saluting Battery.</p>
-
-<p>"The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn
-up in Review Order, in a convenient position, and will
-salute Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, as it
-passes on its way to Fort George Barracks.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p>
-
-<p>"His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military
-Officers at the Presidency who may not be sick, or
-engaged on other duty.</p>
-
-<p>"The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to
-carry out the above order.</p>
-
-<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">Bruce Seton</span>, <em>Major</em>,<br />
-<em>Town Major</em>."</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration
-of the gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a
-public banquet to the Officers of the corps; and the
-inhabitants of Bombay, including the Civil Authorities,
-raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to the
-benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and
-orphans, by the Campaign in Scinde.</p>
-
-<p>The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May,
-and proceeded from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on
-the 23rd of May. The right wing and head-quarters
-arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of June.</p>
-
-<p>General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th
-of October, 1843, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred
-on Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, K.C.B.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1844</div>
-
-<p>On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment
-marched from Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the
-19th the whole moved together for Field Service in the
-Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost two officers,
-and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by
-cholera.</p>
-
-<p>A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the
-north pettah under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the
-27th of November; on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of
-November the regiment, under the command of Brevet
-Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment
-of <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em>, and on the 1st of December
-was at the capture of those forts, the latter of which was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span>
-taken by the regiment. During these operations the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> formed part of the third brigade of the
-force employed under Major-General Delamotte.</p>
-
-<p>On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment
-marched, and joined the first brigade on service in the
-Sawunt-Warree district; the other wing remained near
-Kolapore.</p>
-
-<p>On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment
-arrived at Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the
-first brigade of the Field Force in the Sawunt-Warree
-country, and was employed in investing the forts of
-Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the
-operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades
-in the densely wooded country between Susseedroog and
-the Forts.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1845</div>
-
-<p>The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy;
-on the 17th of January, 1845, part of the wing descended
-the Elephant rock with other troops, and took the village
-of Seevapore, in the Concan, close under Fort Monuhurr,
-where one man was killed and seven wounded. The whole
-of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or
-heights above, and part in the Concan close under the
-forts, investing them from the 17th to the 26th of January,
-during which period the forts were constantly shelled by
-the British artillery, the enemy from the forts firing their
-great guns and musketry.</p>
-
-<p>On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated
-the forts unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle,
-leaving the forts in the possession of the Anglo-Indian army.</p>
-
-<p>The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th
-of February, escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection.
-The regiment was employed in doing duty
-over about six hundred prisoners <ins class="corr" id="tn-45" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'until its recal'">
-until its recall</ins> to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, and
-arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p>
-
-<p>A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank
-and file, under the command of Captain Souter, marched
-from Poonah for Bombay on the 25th of December, 1845.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1846</div>
-
-<p>The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command
-of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting
-of five companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay
-on the 15th of August, 1846, and joined the wing of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> at that station. The march was performed
-in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain
-consequently falling nearly the whole of the way.</p>
-
-<p>The regiment remained together at Bombay, having
-six companies at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until
-the 14th of November, 1846, when the head-quarters,
-with five of the companies which were stationed at Colaba,
-were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever of a
-malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every
-soldier at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in
-less than two months; the casualties were very numerous.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1847<br />1848</div>
-
-<p>The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched
-from Bombay on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived
-at Poonah on the 21st of January. During the year
-1848 the regiment continued to be stationed at Poonah.</p>
-
-<div class="sidenote">1849</div>
-
-<p>On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded
-to Bombay, and was subsequently stationed at Colaba.
-The left wing, consisting of four companies, embarked for
-Kurrachee on the 24th of January.</p>
-
-<p>In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has
-been extended, the regiment remained at Colaba, and
-consisted of fifty-three serjeants, nineteen drummers, and
-1042 rank and file, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
-Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau
-being in command of the Poonah brigade.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4" />
-<hr class="r20a" />
-<p class="pfs120">1849.</p>
-<hr class="r20a" />
-
-
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="PL_3" style="max-width: 37.5em;">
- <img class="p4 w100" src="images/i_b_047fp.jpg" alt="" />
-</div>
-<p class="p2 right fs70">BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE,<br />
-BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 1843.</p>
-
-<p class="p1 noindent fs70">SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF<br />
-MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843.</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs70"><em>For Cannon's Military Records.</em></p>
-<p class="fs70"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p>
-
-
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span><br /></p>
-
-<p class="p2 negin2"><em>Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle
-of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, <em>on the 17th of February, 1843.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was
-taken at the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em>, on the 17th of February, 1843,
-by Private James O'Neill of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment,
-as narrated at <a href="#Page_35">page 35</a> of the Historical Record. The Standard
-is triangular; the longest side is about seven feet in
-length, and the other sides measure each about five feet. The
-Staff is nine feet in length.</p>
-
-<p>The Standards captured at the Battle of <em>Hyderabad</em>, on the
-24th of March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do
-not afford a just idea of the Army which they may be supposed
-to have led on. No person, on viewing these Trophies, would
-suppose the Beloochee Army, to which they belonged, to have
-been composed of men so gallant and so formidable; so well
-armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, as the Scindian
-troops proved themselves in these battles.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-<p class="negin2"><em>Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of
-the Victories of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>, <em>and conferred
-on the Officers and Men engaged in those Battles.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">On the obverse; the bust of <span class="smcap">Her Majesty</span>, with the inscription
-"<span class="smcap">Victoria Regina</span>."</p>
-
-<p>On the reverse; the words "<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>," "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>,"
-"1843," enclosed within branches of Laurel, and surmounted
-by the Imperial Crown.</p>
-
-
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was
-restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.
-It was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to
-Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> The grenadier company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, which
-had been incorporated with the "<em>Louisburg Grenadiers</em>," formed
-part of the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights
-of Abraham on the 13th of September, 1759.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented
-the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in
-reference to the conduct of the regiment,—"I had myself the
-means of knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth,
-whilst your head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally
-popular, and their departure generally regretted. During the
-few pleasant days I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the
-flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed a part, I
-remember upon remarking to the Major-General there commanding,
-the perfect good conduct of all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew
-better men.'"</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by
-the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was
-promoted Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was
-appointed ensign in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, the commissions
-being dated 18th February, 1843, the day following the battle of
-Meeanee.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> The following interesting circumstance is recorded by Major-General
-Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, respecting
-the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere Mahomed:—</p>
-
-<p>"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the
-Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat,
-saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of water;
-they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins and
-struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that
-moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the
-generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their
-own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then
-they all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> men's
-muskets for them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging
-them to hold out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time,
-but soon fell. It was then discovered that these noble fellows
-were all wounded, some deeply, but thinking there was to be
-another fight, they had concealed their hurts, and forced nature to
-sustain the loss of blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun,
-the long marches, and the sandy desert, that their last moments
-might be given to their country on another field of battle!"</p>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-
-<p><em>Names of men of the</em> <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> <em>regiment who concealed their
-wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with
-their regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand.</em></p>
-</div>
-
-<p>Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young,
-Henry Lines, Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton,
-James Mulvey, and Silvester Day.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp
-to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having
-been deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing
-as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of
-Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained.</p>
-
-<p>Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment,
-with Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and
-becoming supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth
-regiment from India in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August,
-1848, Colonel Pennefather was appointed to serve on the Staff of
-the army in Ireland.</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span><br /></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak fs100 lsp2" id="SUCCESSION">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p class="pfs70">OF</p>
-
-<p class="pfs135">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p>
-
-<p class="p1 pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p>
-
-<hr class="r30a" />
-<hr class="r30b" />
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk, K.G.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 16th March, 1689.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Lord Henry Howard</span>, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich,
-afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was summoned to parliament
-in 1678, by the title of Lord Mowbray: and on the death of
-Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship was nominated governor
-and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden of the forest of
-Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and Surrey. On
-the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the dignity
-of <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span>, and of Earl Marshal of England; and
-in May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble
-order of the Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of
-the <span class="smcap">Duke of Monmouth</span>, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> took
-great interest in raising a regiment of foot for the service of
-King James II., now the twelfth regiment of foot, of which
-he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve of the
-measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to
-the protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the
-King gave the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> the sword of state to
-carry with him to the Popish chapel, which he carried as far
-as the door and then stopped, not being willing to enter the
-chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your father would have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span>
-gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,—"Your
-Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not
-have gone so far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and
-joined in the invitation to the <span class="smcap">Prince of Orange</span>. When
-the Prince landed, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> was in London,
-and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for a free
-parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk,
-declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and
-some of the neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest.
-On the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his
-Graced was sworn a member of the privy council; and afterwards
-used his interest and influence in raising a corps of infantry,
-now the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT</span>, of which he
-was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his
-commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April
-1701.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th September, 1689.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis</span> was educated in strict principles of
-loyalty and attachment to monarchical government, and when
-a youth he suffered in the royal cause during the usurpation
-of Cromwell. Soon after the restoration he was nominated
-captain of an independent company in garrison at Hull, of
-which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) was appointed
-governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of the
-Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of
-1674, Sir Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and
-pikemen for the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands,
-and was engaged at the siege of Grave in the
-autumn of that year. He also served at the siege of Maestricht
-in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel in 1677; and in the
-following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley in the command
-of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the
-battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and
-ability, vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the
-Prince of Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was
-wounded. During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span>
-in 1685, he accompanied his regiment to England; and in
-1687 circumstances occurred which occasioned him to withdraw
-from the Dutch service; but he preserved his attachment
-to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of Orange.
-In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy
-of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he
-served in Ireland under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He
-served as brigadier-general under King William in 1690;
-was at the battle of the Boyne; and at the siege of Limerick,
-where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 he acquired
-new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed
-bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the
-reduction of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress,
-and took possession of the town on the 26th of July,
-with his own and two other regiments of foot. The rank of
-major-general was conferred on this distinguished officer in
-April, 1692, and he commanded a brigade under King William
-in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. He acquired
-additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; also
-in the command of a brigade under King William during the
-following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded
-him with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious
-conduct procured him the favour and confidence of his Sovereign,
-by whom he was employed on important services. He
-commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, in May, 1695; and
-a division of the covering army was placed under his orders
-during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign he
-was appointed president of the general court-martial which
-tried the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the
-enemy, and sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot.
-He continued to serve in the Netherlands until the peace of
-Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained the colonelcy of the Queen
-Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in exchange with
-Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the
-British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been
-charged with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary,
-he was tried by a court-martial and dismissed the service.
-His reputation was thus unfortunately tarnished; but his
-crime does not appear to have been considered of a heinous
-nature, as he was subsequently elected a member of parliament
-for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen Anne, in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span>
-1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several particulars
-respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in
-June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He
-died on the 14th of December, 1717.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th June, 1701.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn</span> served in the army of the United Provinces
-of the Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II.,
-and afterwards held a commission under the British crown.
-In 1688 he was nominated captain and lieut.-colonel in the
-second foot guards, with which corps he served in Flanders,
-and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy of the
-second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke.
-He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen
-on the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under
-the eye of his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur,
-in the summer of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of
-brigadier-general during the siege. He subsequently commanded
-a brigade of infantry in the Netherlands, under King
-William III., who nominated him governor of the island of
-Jamaica. He exchanged to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment
-in 1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on
-the 10th June, 1702. He died in June, 1702.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 20th June, 1702.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions,
-<span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd</span> was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of
-the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he proceeded
-to the island of Jamaica; and in June, 1702, Queen Anne
-promoted him to the colonelcy of the regiment. He served
-in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general
-in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span>
-1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment
-in favour of his non.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Roger Handasyd.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 3rd April, 1712.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">This Officer served many years in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment, and was promoted by Queen <ins class="corr" id="tn-52" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Anne to that'">
-Anne to the</ins> lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which he commanded some time at
-the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his father in the colonelcy
-of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the sixteenth
-foot in 1730,—promoted to the rank of brigadier-general
-in 1735,—to that of major-general in 1739,—and to lieut.-general
-in 1743. He died in 1763.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Barrell.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 25th August, 1730.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.;
-he obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished
-conduct in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the
-brevet rank of colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715
-he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot;
-in 1727 he was appointed brigadier-general; in 1730 he was
-removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, and in 1734 to the
-King's Own. In the following year he was promoted to the
-rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of lieut.-general; and
-he was also appointed governor of Pendennis Castle. He
-died on the 9th of August, 1749.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1734.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair</span> entered the army in
-the reign of Queen Anne, and served under the celebrated
-<span class="smcap">John Duke of Marlborough</span>. He was several years an
-officer in the third foot guards, in which corps he rose to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span>
-commission of major, with the rank of colonel, and in 1734
-King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, from which he was removed, in
-1737, to the first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted
-to the rank of brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of
-major-general; and to that of lieut.-general in 1745, at which
-time he was performing the duty of quartermaster-general in the
-Netherlands, to the army commanded by His Royal Highness
-the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year he commanded
-an expedition which was originally designed for the attack of
-the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, and
-afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and
-the peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however,
-achieved. He was subsequently employed on an embassy to
-the courts of Vienna and Turin.<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> On the decease of his
-brother, in 1750, he became entitled to the dignity of Lord
-Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he preferred a seat in the
-House of Commons, of which he had been many years a
-member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761
-he was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart,
-in November, 1762.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Moyle.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 27th June, 1737.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Moyle</span> entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne,
-and served with reputation under the celebrated John Duke
-of Marlborough; he rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly
-raised regiment of foot, and in 1708 was promoted to the rank
-of colonel in the army. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment
-was disbanded. In 1723 King George I. conferred the
-colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel Moyle, who
-was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, and
-to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to
-the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. He died on the 3rd of
-November, 1738.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Paget.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 13th December, 1738.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of King William
-III., and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now
-seventh dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the
-celebrated John Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August,
-1710, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth
-horse; he was afterwards lieut.-colonel of the first troop of
-horse grenadier guards; and in July, 1732, was nominated
-colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from which he was
-removed, in 1738, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. In 1739 he was
-promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the
-28th of May, 1741.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 12th August, 1741.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell</span> was nominated ensign in a regiment of
-foot on the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation
-in the wars of King William III. and of Queen Anne. On
-the 20th of December, 1722, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy
-of the ninth foot, and he performed the duties of
-commanding officer to that corps many years, with credit to
-himself and advantage to the service. On the decease of
-Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded
-the long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell
-with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. In
-1746 Colonel O'Farrell was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general,
-and in 1754 to that of major-general. His decease
-occurred in 1757.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 11th July, 1757.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore</span> entered the army in the reign of King
-George II., and serving with distinction in the wars of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span>
-Austrian succession, was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the
-Thirty-sixth regiment on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed
-the duty of commanding officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment
-with reputation ten years; and in July, 1757, King George II.
-rewarded him with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general in America
-in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade
-under Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the
-descent on Cape Breton, and at the siege and capture of
-Louisburg, of which fortress he was afterwards nominated
-governor. On the 19th of February, 1761, he was promoted
-to the rank of major-general. During the following winter
-he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship
-was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth,
-and Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night,
-fell overboard and was drowned.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 29th March, 1762.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage</span>, second son of Thomas,
-first Viscount Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having
-served some time in the subordinate commissions, was
-appointed major of the Forty-fourth foot in February, 1747;
-and he was further promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the
-regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He was serving with
-his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred between
-Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the banks
-of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the forces
-sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to
-command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi.
-In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General
-Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable
-Thomas Gage was wounded. He continued to serve in
-America, where he raised a provincial regiment, which was
-numbered the eightieth, light-armed foot, of which he was
-appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also appointed
-brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the
-army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued
-to form part of the British dominions from that period. He<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span>
-was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in
-the same year he performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief
-in North America, and also succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as
-Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth regiment, which he held
-two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst was re-appointed.
-In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the
-rank of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between
-Great Britain and her North American colonies began to
-assume a serious aspect, he was appointed Captain-General
-and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay, and he arrived
-at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced in the
-following year, and his active exertions to suppress the rebellion
-were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment
-of Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned
-in a few months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed
-colonel of the seventeenth light dragoons; he was
-promoted to the rank of general in November following, and
-in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh dragoons. He
-died in 1787.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th April, 1782.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara</span> was appointed cornet in the third dragoons
-in December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant
-and captain in the second foot guards. He served in
-Portugal in 1762, and performed the duties of quartermaster-general
-to the army under Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun.
-In 1769 he was promoted to the rank of captain and
-lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment in North
-America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the
-rank of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot
-guards under Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia;
-distinguished himself at the passage of the Catawba river on
-the 1st of February, 1781; and was wounded at the battle
-of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782 he was nominated
-to the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment; was
-removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was
-advanced to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span>
-the British troops at Toulon, and was wounded and
-taken prisoner in an action with the French republican troops
-on the 30th of November, 1793. His services were rewarded
-with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar, and in 1798
-he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded that
-he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and
-enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and
-accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st
-of February, 1802.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">David Dundas.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 2nd April, 1791.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">David Dundas</span> was one of the most distinguished officers of
-the age in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the
-principles of military tactics. He commenced his military
-education at the age of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich,
-and at fifteen he assisted in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he
-obtained a commission in the Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758
-he proceeded with the expedition to the coast of France as
-an assistant quartermaster-general; and in the following year
-obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised regiment
-of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth, or
-King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany
-in 1760 and 1761; in the following summer he accompanied
-an expedition to Cuba, as aide-de-camp to Major-General
-Eliott, and was actively employed in the reduction of the
-Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in his
-regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged
-by an ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every
-branch of his profession, he obtained permission to proceed to
-the Continent, to observe the practice of the French and
-Austrian armies. In 1775 he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy
-of the twelfth light dragoons, joined the regiment in Ireland
-shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the appointment of
-quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was
-removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now
-the fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the
-Continent, attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span>
-three summers, and after his return he presented His Majesty
-with a detailed account of their evolutions.</p>
-
-<p>Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced,
-in 1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military
-movements, which became the basis of our army regulations
-for field exercises and movements. His abilities obtained
-for him the favour and attention of King George III., who
-appointed him adjutant-general in Ireland, for the purpose of
-introducing his system of tactics into the army of that country.
-In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted to the rank of major-general.
-In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish
-staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in
-service of actual warfare. After the commencement of
-hostilities with the French republic, Major-General Dundas
-was employed on a military mission to the island of Jersey,
-and was subsequently sent to the Continent to confer with the
-Duke of York respecting the siege of Dunkirk. From
-Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded under
-Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was
-taken prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison.
-His services there, although he was ultimately obliged to
-evacuate the place, called forth the approbation of his Sovereign
-and of the British nation. After abandoning Toulon, he
-made a descent on Corsica, which island was reduced and
-annexed to the British dominions; but shortly afterwards he
-received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he arrived
-in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry at
-the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General
-Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through
-Holland, and the corps under his immediate command gained
-considerable advantage over the enemy in two successive
-actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly distinguished himself
-also in an attack upon the French post at Thuyl, in December
-of the same year. He continued with the British troops in
-Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was
-appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After
-his return to England he was appointed quartermaster-general
-to the army; and he composed the celebrated regulations
-for the field exercises and movements for the cavalry,
-which were approved by his Royal Highness the Duke of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span>
-York, and by King George III., and ordered to be exclusively
-adopted throughout the cavalry.</p>
-
-<p>In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of
-the allied army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to
-Holland; he distinguished himself in several actions with the
-enemy, and was highly commended by His Royal Highness
-in his public despatches. In 1801 he was appointed colonel
-of the second, or Royal North British dragoons, and was constituted
-governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was promoted
-to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the
-French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in
-command of the troops in the southern district, which comprised
-the counties of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was
-appointed governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and
-created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of March, 1809,
-His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished
-veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army,
-on the resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the
-Duke of York, which appointment he held until the 25th of
-May, 1811, when His Royal Highness was re-appointed.
-He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of the rifle brigade on
-the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the colonelcy
-of the King's dragoon guards on the <ins class="corr" id="tn-59" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '27th of Januuary'">
-27th of January</ins>, 1813. He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of
-sixty years.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Crosbie.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 23rd December, 1795.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">After serving in the subordinate commissions, <span class="smcap">William
-Crosbie</span> was nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth
-regiment, on the 9th of May, 1769; and in October,
-1778, he was promoted to the majority of the seventh Royal
-Fusiliers, with which corps he served in the Carolinas; in
-April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785,
-he obtained the permission of King George III. for the
-introduction of an order of merit in the corps, which under
-his command obtained a high reputation for correct discipline.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span>
-He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790; and in
-1793 received a letter of service for raising the Eighty-ninth
-regiment, of which he was appointed colonel. In 1794 he
-was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed
-to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment in 1795. He died on the
-16th of June, 1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was
-lieut.-governor at the time of his decease.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th June, 1798.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe</span>, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal
-Navy, evinced great talent from his youth. It is recorded
-that, when a boy, he was taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed
-up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec; and he constructed a
-chart of the river, which was given to Major-General Wolfe,
-who sailed with an expedition against Quebec, in 1759. On
-the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the
-Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston,
-in 1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment
-in December, 1775, and served at Long Island and New
-York in 1776, and in the expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777,
-when he distinguished himself at the battle of Brandywine,
-and was wounded. In October of the same year, he was
-placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The Queen's
-Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted
-to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services
-with this corps are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry
-Clinton, in a letter to Lord George Germaine, in the following
-terms:—"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe has been at the head of a
-battalion since October, 1777, and since that time he has
-been perpetually with the advance of the army. The history
-of the corps under his command is a series of gallant,
-skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without
-a single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or
-taken, twice their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself
-has been thrice wounded; and I do not scruple to assert,
-that his successes have been no less the fruit of the most extensive
-knowledge of his profession which study and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span>
-experience within his reach could give him, than of the
-most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly
-distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina,
-and Virginia, he was included in the capitulation of York
-Town, and returned to England in a state of debility from
-excessive exertion, &c. In 1790 he was promoted to the
-rank of colonel, and in the following year raised a corps of
-infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he was appointed
-colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently
-proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the
-same talent, energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously
-in the American war. In 1794 he was promoted to the rank
-of major-general, and in 1796 to the local rank of lieut.-general
-in the island of St. Domingo. In January, 1798, he
-was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment, and was
-removed, in June following, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment,
-the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in
-1806.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir James H. Craig, K.B.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1806.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">James Henry Craig</span> was appointed ensign in the thirtieth
-foot, in 1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in
-1771 he was promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment,
-with which corps he served several campaigns in
-America; and in 1777 he was promoted to the majority, and
-in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of the Eighty-second regiment,
-from which he was removed, in 1783, to the sixteenth. He
-was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and to that of
-major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the
-colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to
-the rank of lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth
-in 1804. He commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean,
-in 1805, with the local rank of general, and the
-dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops under his orders
-landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession of the
-island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>
-regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor
-of Upper and Lower Canada, with the local rank of general<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span>
-in America; in 1809 he was removed to the Seventy-eighth
-Highlanders. He was also appointed governor of Blackness
-Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812.</p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Edward Finch.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th September, 1809.</em></p>
-
-<p class="noindent">In 1778 the <span class="smcap">Honorable Edward Finch</span> was appointed
-cornet in the eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was
-promoted to a lieutenancy in the Eighty-seventh foot. He
-embarked for the West Indies, in January, 1780, and served
-there, and in North America, until 1782, when he returned
-to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain in the
-second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain and
-lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns
-of 1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness
-the Duke of York, and shared in the several actions in which
-the foot guards distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was
-promoted to the rank of colonel, and in 1799 he commanded
-the first battalion of his regiment in the expedition to Holland,
-where he served in several actions under Lieut.-General Sir
-Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness the Duke of
-York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the
-expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general,
-and was promoted to the rank of major-general, in
-January, 1801. After commanding the light cavalry in
-Egypt some time, he was placed at the head of a brigade of
-infantry, and was honored with the Order of the Crescent
-from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of
-foot guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in
-1807 he commanded a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen.
-In 1808 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and
-appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth regiment, and in 1809 he
-was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. He was promoted to
-the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the
-27th of October, 1843.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p>
-
-
-<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</span></p>
-
-<p class="center"><em>Appointed 21st November, 1843.</em></p>
-
-<p>The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her
-Majesty to the Colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment.</p>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-
-<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND!</span></p>
-
-<p> Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me
-at your head, and I shall end my military career wearing the
-uniform of the Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory,
-and well I know it will increase, when you have again an opportunity
-to use your Arms! Never were the Musket and
-Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor were the Royal Colours
-of England ever confided to more intrepid Soldiers!</p>
-
-<p>"Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments
-that they had formerly commanded, and with whose
-glory their own fame is associated; but old Comrades have
-passed away,—to the new men, they are strangers,—and
-nought remains to bind them to their Regiments, but Memory
-and Renown! My good fortune has been greater, for
-while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old
-Corps, the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the
-<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, placed among men at whose head I have
-so lately fought, and to whose valour I owe so much!!</p>
-
-<p>"Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as <em>pseudo</em> Philosophers
-pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive
-us not of Manly sentiments. I shall always have the strongest
-attachment to the corps with whom I have served, and among
-the honors won for me by the Army of Scinde, the greatest
-is that of being your Colonel!!</p>
-
-<p class="right">
-(Signed) "<span class="pad4 smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br />
-"<em>Colonel 22nd Regiment</em>.</p>
-
-<p>"<em>Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844.</em>"</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="p1">The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General
-Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span>
-Colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment, was in the <em>Duke
-of Wellington's own hand-writing</em>:—</p>
-
-<div class="blockquotx">
-
-<p>"P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty,
-principally on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you,
-as this was the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India
-engaged in the two glorious battles fought at <em>Meeanee</em> and
-<em>Hyderabad</em>, in <em>Scinde</em>; and Her Majesty was graciously
-pleased to approve of the recommendation on that ground."</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p class="p4" />
-<hr class="r30" />
-
-<p class="p4 pfs70">LONDON:</p>
-
-<p class="pfs70">
-Printed by <span class="smcap">William Clowes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sons</span>, Stamford Street,<br />
-For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.</p>
-
-
-<div class="chapter"></div>
-<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair,
-during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to Vienna
-and Turin.</p>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-<div class="transnote pg-brk">
-<a name="TN" id="TN"></a>
-<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p>
-
-<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
-corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
-the text and consultation of external sources.</p>
-
-<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
-and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.<br />
-<br />
-<a href="#tn-xxix">Pg xxix</a>: 'thence to Portmouth' replaced by 'thence to Portsmouth'.<br />
-<a href="#tn-34">Pg 34</a>: 'a deperate dash' replaced by 'a desperate dash'.<br />
-<a href="#tn-41">Pg 41</a>: 'stanch and true' replaced by 'staunch and true'.<br />
-<a href="#tn-45">Pg 45</a>: 'until its recal' replaced by 'until its recall'.<br />
-<a href="#tn-52">Pg 52</a>: 'Anne to that' replaced by 'Anne to the'.<br />
-<a href="#tn-59">Pg 59</a>: '27th of Januuary' replaced by '27th of January'.<br />
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and that this Account shall +contain the following particulars, viz.:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>—— The Period and Circumstances of the Original +Formation of the Regiment; The Stations at which it +has been from time to time employed; The Battles, +Sieges, and other Military Operations in which it has +been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement +it may have performed, and the Colours, +Trophies, &c., it may have captured from the +Enemy.</p> + +<p>—— The Names of the Officers, and the number of +Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Killed or +Wounded by the Enemy, specifying the place and +Date of the Action.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> + +<p>—— The Names of those Officers who, in consideration +of their Gallant Services and Meritorious +Conduct in Engagements with the Enemy, have +been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other +Marks of His Majesty's gracious favour.</p> + +<p>—— The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned +Officers, and Privates, as may have +specially signalized themselves in Action.</p> + +<p>And,</p> + +<p>—— The Badges and Devices which the Regiment +may have been permitted to bear, and the +Causes on account of which such Badges or Devices, +or any other Marks of Distinction, have been +granted.</p> +</div> + +<p class="right padr2">By Command of the Right Honorable</p> +<p class="right padr4">GENERAL LORD HILL,</p> +<p class="right"><em>Commanding-in-Chief</em>.</p> + +<p class="p2 right smcap">John Macdonald,</p> +<p class="right padr2"><em>Adjutant-General</em>.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[iii]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak lsp2" id="PREFACE">PREFACE.</h2> +</div> + +<hr class="r15" /> + +<p class="p2 noindent">The character and credit of the British Army must +chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which +all who enter into its service are animated, and +consequently it is of the highest importance that any +measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, +by which alone great and gallant actions are achieved, +should be adopted.</p> + +<p>Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment +of this desirable object than a full display of the noble +deeds with which the Military History of our country +abounds. To hold forth these bright examples to +the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to +incite him to emulate the meritorious conduct of those +who have preceded him in their honorable career, +are among the motives that have given rise to the +present publication.</p> + +<p>The operations of the British Troops are, indeed, +announced in the "London Gazette," from whence +they are transferred into the public prints: the +achievements of our armies are thus made known at +the time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span> +of praise and admiration to which they are entitled. +On extraordinary occasions, the Houses of Parliament +have been in the habit of conferring on the Commanders, +and the Officers and Troops acting under +their orders, expressions of approbation and of thanks +for their skill and bravery; and these testimonials, +confirmed by the high honour of their Sovereign's +approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier +most highly prizes.</p> + +<p>It has not, however, until late years, been the practice +(which appears to have long prevailed in some of +the Continental armies) for British Regiments to keep +regular records of their services and achievements. +Hence some difficulty has been experienced in obtaining, +particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic +account of their origin and subsequent services.</p> + +<p>This defect will now be remedied, in consequence +of His Majesty having been pleased to command +that every Regiment shall, in future, keep a full and +ample record of its services at home and abroad.</p> + +<p>From the materials thus collected, the country +will henceforth derive information as to the difficulties +and privations which chequer the career of those who +embrace the military profession. In Great Britain, +where so large a number of persons are devoted to +the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, +and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span> +long a period, being undisturbed by the <em>presence of +war</em>, which few other countries have escaped, comparatively +little is known of the vicissitudes of active +service and of the casualties of climate, to which, +even during peace, the British Troops are exposed in +every part of the globe, with little or no interval of +repose.</p> + +<p>In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which +the country derives from the industry and the enterprise +of the agriculturist and the trader, its happy +inhabitants may be supposed not often to reflect on +the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,—on +their sufferings,—and on the sacrifice of valuable life, +by which so many national benefits are obtained and +preserved.</p> + +<p>The conduct of the British Troops, their valour, +and endurance, have shone conspicuously under great +and trying difficulties; and their character has been +established in Continental warfare by the irresistible +spirit with which they have effected debarkations in +spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the +gallantry and steadiness with which they have maintained +their advantages against superior numbers.</p> + +<p>In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, +ample justice has generally been done to +the gallant exertions of the Corps employed; but +the details of their services and of acts of individual<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span> +bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the +various Regiments.</p> + +<p>These Records are now preparing for publication, +under his Majesty's special authority, by Mr. +<span class="smcap">Richard Cannon</span>, Principal Clerk of the Adjutant +General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot +fail to be useful and interesting to military men +of every rank, it is considered that they will also +afford entertainment and information to the general +reader, particularly to those who may have served in +the Army, or who have relatives in the Service.</p> + +<p>There exists in the breasts of most of those who +have served, or are serving, in the Army, an <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Esprit +de Corps</i>—an attachment to everything belonging +to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative of +the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove +interesting. Authentic accounts of the actions of +the great, the valiant, the loyal, have always been +of paramount interest with a brave and civilized +people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes +who, in moments of danger and terror, have stood +"firm as the rocks of their native shore:" and when +half the world has been arrayed against them, they +have fought the battles of their Country with unshaken +fortitude. It is presumed that a record of +achievements in war,—victories so complete and surprising, +gained by our countrymen, our brothers,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span> +our fellow citizens in arms,—a record which revives +the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant +deeds before us,—will certainly prove acceptable to +the public.</p> + +<p>Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other +distinguished Officers will be introduced in the +Records of their respective Regiments, and the +Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to +time, been conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying +the value and importance of its services, will be +faithfully set forth.</p> + +<p>As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record +of each Regiment will be printed in a distinct number, +so that when the whole shall be completed, the +Parts may be bound up in numerical succession.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span><br /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ix"></a>[ix]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION<br /> + +<span class="fs60">TO</span><br /> + +<span class="fs120 lsp2">THE INFANTRY.</span></h2> +</div> + +<hr class="r20a" /> +<hr class="r20a" /> + +<p class="p2 noindent">The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been +celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness, +and the national superiority of the British troops +over those of other countries has been evinced in +the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains +so many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery, +that no doubts can be raised upon the facts which +are recorded. It must therefore be admitted, that +the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is +<span class="smcap">Intrepidity</span>. This quality was evinced by the +inhabitants of England when their country was +invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army, on +which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into +the sea to attack the Roman soldiers as they descended +from their ships; and, although their discipline +and arms were inferior to those of their +adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing +intimidated the flower of the Roman troops, including +Cæsar's favourite tenth legion. Their arms +consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons +of rude construction. They had chariots, to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_x"></a>[x]</span> +axles of which were fastened sharp pieces of iron +resembling scythe-blades, and infantry in long +chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and +fought on foot, and for change of ground, pursuit +or retreat, sprang into the chariot and drove off +with the speed of cavalry. These inventions were, +however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in +the course of time a military system, with discipline +and subordination, was introduced, and +British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted +to the greatest advantage; a full development of +the national character followed, and it shone forth +in all its native brilliancy.</p> + +<p>The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted +principally of infantry: Thanes, and other men of +property, however, fought on horseback. The +infantry were of two classes, heavy and light. +The former carried large shields armed with spikes, +long broad swords and spears; and the latter were +armed with swords or spears only. They had also +men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and +javelins.</p> + +<p>The feudal troops established by William the +Conqueror consisted (as already stated in the Introduction +to the Cavalry) almost entirely of horse; +but when the warlike barons and knights, with their +trains of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion +of men appeared on foot, and, although +these were of inferior degree, they proved stout-hearted +Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary +troops were employed, infantry always constituted +a considerable portion of the military force;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xi"></a>[xi]</span> +and this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i> has since acquired, in every quarter +of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the +armies of any nation at any period.</p> + +<p>The weapons carried by the infantry, during the +several reigns succeeding the Conquest, were bows +and arrows, half-pikes, lances, halberds, various +kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour +was worn on the head and body, and in course of +time the practice became general for military men +to be so completely cased in steel, that it was +almost impossible to slay them.</p> + +<p>The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the +destructive purposes of war, in the early part of the +fourteenth century, produced a change in the arms +and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and +arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but +British archers continued formidable adversaries; +and, owing to the inconvenient construction and imperfect +bore of the fire-arms when first introduced, +a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow +from their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition +to every army, even as late as the sixteenth +century.</p> + +<p>During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth +each company of infantry usually consisted of +men armed five different ways; in every hundred +men forty were "<em>men-at-arms</em>," and sixty "<em>shot</em>;" +the "men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe +men, and thirty pikemen; and the "shot" were +twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and twenty +harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his +principal weapon, a sword and dagger.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xii"></a>[xii]</span></p> + +<p>Companies of infantry varied at this period in +numbers from 150 to 300 men; each company had +a colour or ensign, and the mode of formation recommended +by an English military writer (Sir John +Smithe) in 1590 was:—the colour in the centre of +the company guarded by the halberdiers; the pikemen +in equal proportions, on each flank of the +halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of +the pikes; half the archers on each flank of the musketeers, +and the harquebusiers (whose arms were +much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal +proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +It was customary to unite a number of companies +into one body, called a <span class="smcap">Regiment</span>, which +frequently amounted to three thousand men: but +each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous +improvements were eventually introduced in the +construction of fire-arms, and, it having been found +impossible to make armour proof against the muskets +then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without +its being too weighty for the soldier, armour was +gradually laid aside by the infantry in the seventeenth +century: bows and arrows also fell into disuse, +and the infantry were reduced to two classes, +viz.: <em>musketeers</em>, armed with matchlock muskets,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiii"></a>[xiii]</span> +swords, and daggers; and <em>pikemen</em>, armed with pikes +from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and swords.</p> + +<p>In the early part of the seventeenth century +Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, reduced the +strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused the +gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in +flasks, or in small wooden bandoliers, each containing +a charge, to be made up into cartridges, and +carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment +into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division +of pikemen. He also adopted the practice of forming +four regiments into a brigade; and the number +of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each +regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that +his infantry could resist the charge of the celebrated +Polish horsemen and Austrian cuirassiers; and his +armies became the admiration of other nations. His +mode of formation was copied by the English, +French, and other European states; but so great +was the prejudice in favour of ancient customs, that +all his improvements were not adopted until near a +century afterwards.</p> + +<p>In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service, +styled the Admiral's regiment. In 1678 +each company of 100 men usually consisted of 30 +pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with +light firelocks. In this year the King added a company +of men armed with hand grenades to each of +the old British regiments, which was designated the +"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived +as to fit in the muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiv"></a>[xiv]</span> +similar to those at present in use were adopted about +twenty years afterwards.</p> + +<p>An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by +order of King James II., to guard the artillery, and +was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now 7th Foot). +This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did +not carry pikes.</p> + +<p>King William III. incorporated the Admiral's +regiment in the second Foot Guards, and raised +two Marine regiments for sea-service. During the +war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting +the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14 +pikemen and 46 musketeers; the captains carried +pikes; lieutenants, partisans; ensigns, half-pikes; +and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697 the +Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again +formed on the breaking out of the war in 1702.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> + +<p>During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were +laid aside, and every infantry soldier was armed +with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the grenadiers +ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades; +and the regiments were directed to lay aside +their third colour: the corps of Royal Artillery was +first added to the Army in this reign.</p> + +<p>About the year 1745, the men of the battalion +companies of infantry ceased to carry swords; during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xv"></a>[xv]</span> +the reign of George II. light companies were added +to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of +General Officers recommended that the grenadiers +should lay aside their swords, as that weapon had +never been used during the Seven Years' War. Since +that period the arms of the infantry soldier have been +limited to the musket and bayonet.</p> + +<p>The arms and equipment of the British Troops have +seldom differed materially, since the Conquest, from +those of other European states; and in some respects +the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed to +be inferior to that of the nations with whom they +have had to contend; yet, under this disadvantage, +the bravery and superiority of the British infantry +have been evinced on very many and most trying +occasions, and splendid victories have been gained +over very superior numbers.</p> + +<p>Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like +champions who have dared to confront a host of +foes, and have proved themselves valiant with any +arms. At <em>Crecy</em>, King Edward III., at the head of +about 30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August, +1346, Philip King of France, whose army is said to +have amounted to 100,000 men; here British valour +encountered veterans of renown:—the King of Bohemia, +the King of Majorca, and many princes and +nobles were slain, and the French army was routed +and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards, Edward +Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black +Prince, defeated, at <em>Poictiers</em>, with 14,000 men, +a French army of 60,000 horse, besides infantry, +and took John I., King of France, and his son<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvi"></a>[xvi]</span> +Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415, +King Henry V., with an army of about 13,000 +men, although greatly exhausted by marches, privations, +and sickness, defeated, at <em>Agincourt</em>, the +Constable of France, at the head of the flower of +the French nobility and an army said to amount to +60,000 men, and gained a complete victory.</p> + +<p>During the seventy years' war between the United +Provinces of the Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy, +which commenced in 1578 and terminated +in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the +States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable +spirit and firmness;<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> and in the thirty +years' war between the Protestant Princes and the +Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the service +of Sweden and other states were celebrated for +deeds of heroism.<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> In the wars of Queen Anne, +the fame of the British army under the great +<span class="smcap">Marlborough</span> was spread throughout the world; +and if we glance at the achievements performed +within the memory of persons now living, there is +abundant proof that the Britons of the present age +are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvii"></a>[xvii]</span> +which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds +of the brave men, of whom there are many now +surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801, under the +brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army, +which had been vainly styled <em>Invincible</em>, to evacuate +that country; also the services of the gallant +Troops during the arduous campaigns in the Peninsula, +under the immortal <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>; and the +determined stand made by British Army at +Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had +long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain, +and had sought and planned her destruction by +every means he could devise, was compelled to +leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to +place himself at the disposal of the British Government +These achievements, with others of recent +dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the +same valour and constancy which glowed in the +breasts of the heroes of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt, +Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to animate the +Britons of the nineteenth century.</p> + +<p>The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust +and muscular frame,—intrepidity which no danger +can appal,—unconquerable spirit and resolution,—patience +in fatigue and privation, and cheerful obedience +to his superiors. These qualities, united with +an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate +and give a skilful direction to the energies and +adventurous spirit of the hero, and a wise selection +of officers of superior talent to command, whose +presence inspires confidence,—have been the leading +causes of the splendid victories gained by the British<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xviii"></a>[xviii]</span> +arms.<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> The fame of the deeds of the past and +present generations in the various battle-fields where +the robust sons of Albion have fought and conquered, +surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory; +these achievements will live in the page of history to +the end of time.</p> + +<p>The records of the several regiments will be found +to contain a detail of facts of an interesting character, +connected with the hardships, sufferings, and gallant +exploits of British soldiers in the various parts of the +world, where the calls of their Country and the commands +of their Sovereign have required them to +proceed in the execution of their duty, whether in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xix"></a>[xix]</span> +active continental operations, or in maintaining colonial +territories in distant and unfavourable climes.</p> + +<p>The superiority of the British infantry has been +pre-eminently set forth in the wars of six centuries, +and admitted by the greatest commanders which +Europe has produced. The formations and movements +of this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i>, as at present practised, while +they are adapted to every species of warfare, and to +all probable situations and circumstances of service, +are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military +tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific +principles. Although the movements and evolutions +have been copied from the continental armies, yet +various improvements have from time to time been +introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by +which the superiority of the national military character +is maintained. The rank and influence which +Great Britain has attained among the nations of the +world, have in a great measure been purchased by +the valour of the Army, and to persons who have the +welfare of their country at heart, the records of the +several regiments cannot fail to prove interesting.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> A company of 200 men would appear thus:—</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="95%" summary="Structure of a company"> +<tr><td colspan="4"></td><td> <img src="images/flag.jpg" width="20" alt="flag" /></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td> + <td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc"></td></tr> +<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Halberds.</td> + <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td></tr> +<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl"></td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td> + <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>The musket carried a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>10</sub>th of a pound; and the +harquebus a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>25</sub>th of a pound.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps +in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of +Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under +Admiral Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and +in its subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at +the siege of Barcelona in 1705.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed +in 1590, observes:—"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation +would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the field, +let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the Spanish +infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe. For +instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the +Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or +Buffs.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> <em>Vide</em> the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of +Foot.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes +the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in Egypt to +that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but His Majesty +desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed on the consideration +of every part of the army, that it has been a strict observance of order, discipline, +and military system, which has given the full energy to the +native valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the +superiority of the national military character, in situations uncommonly +arduous, and under circumstances of peculiar difficulty."—<em>General +Orders in 1801.</em></p> + +<p>In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope (afterwards +Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the successful result +of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, 1809, it is stated:—"On +no occasion has the undaunted valour of British troops ever been more +manifest. At the termination of a severe and harassing march, rendered +necessary by the superiority which the enemy had acquired, and +which had materially impaired the efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages +were to be encountered. These have all been surmounted by +the conduct of the troops themselves; and the enemy has been taught, +that whatever advantages of position or of numbers he may possess, there +is inherent in the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not +how to yield,—that no circumstances can appal,—and that will ensure +victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human means."</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"></div> + +<p class="p2 pfs180">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p4 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs150">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT,</p> + +<p class="p4 pfs60">BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs70">THE WORDS</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs120">"SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD,"</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs80 lht"> +IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY<br /> +IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE,<br /> +DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843;</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80"> +AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80">OF <span class="fs150">MEEANEE</span> AND <span class="fs150">HYDERABAD</span>,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80 lht"> +FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY,<br /> +ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843.<br /> +</p> + + +<hr class="p4 chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxv"></a>[xxv]</span><br /></p> + +<p class="p2 pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs135">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="r30" /> + + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs60">OF THE</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs135 lsp">HISTORICAL RECORD.</p> + +<hr class="r30" /> + + +<table class="autotable" summary=""> +<tr> +<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdr smcap fs60">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Introduction.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1689</td> +<td class="tdl">Formation of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Stationed at Chester</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment, + appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to the Duke of Norfolk</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1690</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the <em>Battle of the Boyne</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Reviewed by King William at <em>Finglass</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Advanced against Athlone</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Rejoined the Army</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed at the first siege of Limerick</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded into winter-quarters</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged with the Rapparees</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1691</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded with the Army against <em>Ballymore</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1691</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Siege and Capture of <em>Athlone</em> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvi"></a>[xxvi]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of <em>Aghrim</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Capture of <em>Galway</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">—————————— + <em>Limerick</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Termination of the War in Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1695</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1696</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to England</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1697</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at <em>Ryswick</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1698</td> +<td class="tdl">Re-embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1701</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Brigadier-General William Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot, + with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1702</td> +<td class="tdl">Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King William III</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Selwyn, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1705</td> +<td class="tdl">Establishment augmented by two companies</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1712</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to + the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father, Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1713</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1714</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment returned to England, leaving two Independent Companies at Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1715</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed in recruiting its Establishment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1718</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for <em>Ireland</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1726</td> +<td class="tdl">—————— <em>Minorca</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1727</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment embarked for <em>Gibraltar</em> to assist in its Defence against the Spaniards</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1730</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from the Twenty-Eighth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd, removed to the Sixteenth Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1734</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel William Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvii"></a>[xxvii]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1737</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Hon. James St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1738</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Moyle, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1741</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Paget, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1748</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1749</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1751</td> +<td class="tdl">Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating the Clothing, Colours, + Numbers, Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1756</td> +<td class="tdl">War declared against France</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1757</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Farrell, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1758</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, and the Capture of the Island of <em>Cape Breton</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1759</td> +<td class="tdl">The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the Louisburg Grenadiers,—Engaged at the Battle of Quebec</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1760</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to <em>Quebec</em>, and advanced to <em>Montreal</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1761</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the <em>West Indies</em> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxviii"></a>[xxviii]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Island of <em>Dominica</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1762</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Capture of <em>Martinique</em>, <em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked with the expedition against the <em>Havannah</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Storming and Capture of <em>Fort Moro</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Honorable Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1763</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange for the Province of Florida, in South America</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment proceeded to West Florida</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1765</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Great Britain</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1773</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1775</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for North America</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1776</td> +<td class="tdl">Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Staten Island, near New York</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the Americans at Brooklyn</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Gained possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode Island</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1778</td> +<td class="tdl">The King of France having united with the Americans, made preparations for the + re-capture of Rhode Island, but was compelled to abandon the siege</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1779</td> +<td class="tdl">The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded to New York</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1782</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxix"></a>[xxix]</span> + Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the Colonelcy, in succession to General + the Honorable Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment received instructions to assume the title of <em>the Twenty-Second</em>, or <em>the Cheshire Regiment</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1783</td> +<td class="tdl">The American War having terminated, the regiment embarked for England</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1785</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards at the Castle</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">King George the III. authorized an <em>Order of Merit</em> to be instituted in the corps</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1787</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and <ins class="corr" id="tn-xxix" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'thence to Portmouth'"> +thence to Portsmouth</ins></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1788</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Chatham and Dover</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1790</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1791</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General O'Hara, removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1793</td> +<td class="tdl">War commenced between Great Britain and France</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for the West Indies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1794</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of the Island of Martinique</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Lucia</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— Guadaloupe</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Domingo</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1795</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to England from St. Domingo</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the Eighty-Ninth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Guernsey</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxx"></a>[xxx]</span> + Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the Eighty-First Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Crosbie, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1799</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Portsmouth</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being sent to the Cape of Good Hope, + preparatory to being embarked for service in the East Indies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1800</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1802</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to India</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1803</td> +<td class="tdl">Arrival at Calcutta</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force assembled for the attack + of the province of Cuttack</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of Barrabatta by storm</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1804</td> +<td class="tdl">Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege of Bhurtpore</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1805</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from <em>Fort William</em> and encamped at <em>Benares</em>, thence proceeded to <em>Cawnpore</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl"><em>Rajah Sing</em> submitted and concluded a treaty of peace</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">British army withdrew from Bhurtpore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl"><em>Holkar</em> and <em>Scindia</em> concluded Treaties of Peace</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to <em>Delhi</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the Governor-General in Council and of + General Lord Lake, Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxi"></a>[xxxi]</span> + Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1807</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Berhampore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1809</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch to the Colonelcy, in succession to + General Sir James Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1810</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the expedition against the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1811</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of Madagascar</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1812</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bourbon</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1813</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed a second time to the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1814</td> +<td class="tdl">A second Battalion added to the establishment of the regiment, which was reduced in the same year</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1815</td> +<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the Mauritius from Hindoostan</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1819</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for England from the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1821</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1822</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork. + The officers commanding this detachment received the thanks of H. R. H. the Duke of York, + and were presented with a silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the Town of Newmarket, + for attacking and defeating this body of insurgents</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1826</td> +<td class="tdl">Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies preparatory to embarkation for foreign service</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked for Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1830</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxii"></a>[xxxii]</span> +Depôt Companies embarked for England</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1831</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies employed in suppressing an insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1836</td> +<td class="tdl">Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1837</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland, and rejoined by the Depôt Companies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1840</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked from Ireland for England</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1841</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1842</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to <em>Scinde</em>, and encamped at Kurrachee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed in the destruction of the Fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described by Major-General William E. P. Napier</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Treacherous attack upon the British residency at <em>Hyderabad</em>, and gallant defence + made by the <em>Light Company</em> of the <em>Twenty-Second</em> regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir Charles Napier</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Battle of Meeanee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Battle of Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Particulars of the march of the British troops through the desert</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiii"></a>[xxxiii]</span> + Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and by the British Parliament, + on the Twenty-second regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops in distributing + the medals conferred on them for their gallantry in this campaign</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir Charles Napier's order on the occasion</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the Colonelcy, in succession to + General Honorable E. Finch, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1844</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of Forts <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1845</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1846</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1847</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1849</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Conclusion</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdc">————————</td> +<td class="tdrb"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Description of the Standards captured at the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad, + and of the Medal conferred in honor of the victories obtained at those places</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiv"></a>[xxxiv]</span><br /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxv"></a>[xxxv]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs60">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="pfs130">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + + +<table class="autotable" width="95%" summary=""> +<tr> +<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td> +<td class="tdrb smcap fs60">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1701 William Selwyn</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1702 Thomas Handasyd</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1712 Roger Handasyd</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1730 William Barrell</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1734 <em>Hon.</em> James St. Clair</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1737 John Moyle</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1738 Thomas Paget</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1741 Richard O'Farrell</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1757 Edward Whitmore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1762 <em>Hon.</em> Thomas Gage</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1782 Charles O'Hara</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1791 David Dundas</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1795 William Crosbie</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798 John Graves Simcoe</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1809 <em>Hon.</em> Edward Finch</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdc tdpp" colspan="2">PLATES.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Colours of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb nowrap"><em>to face</em><a href="#PL_1"> 1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Costume of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_2">32</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of Meeanee in 1843; + and of the Silver Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged in the + Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_3">47</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="pfs90">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.</p> +<p class="pfs90">QUEEN'S COLOUR.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter illowp37" id="PL_1" style="max-width: 26.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_001fp.jpg" alt="" /> + <div class="caption"> + REGIMENTAL COLOUR. + </div> +</div> +<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p> +<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand</em></p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120 lsp" id="HISTORICAL_RECORD">HISTORICAL RECORD</h2> +</div> + +<p class="p2 pfs60">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs150">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p> + +<p class="pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + +<hr class="r30a" /> +<hr class="r30b" /> + +<div class="sidenote">1689</div> + +<p class="noindent">The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in +February, 1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations +of security to the civil and religious institutions +of the country, and of prosperity in every branch of +national industry; but in Ireland the majority of the +people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and +a body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance +of that country from the power of King James, who had +landed there with an armament from France. On this +occasion <span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk</span>, evinced zeal for the +principles of the Revolution, and raised a regiment of +pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers +was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of +his Grace now bears the title of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT</span>.</p> + +<p>Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped, +and disciplined, the regiment was encamped near Chester +in the early part of August, and soon afterwards embarked +for Ireland, with the forces commanded by Marshal<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span> +Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of +<em>Carrickfergus</em> was commenced, and the garrison of that +fortress was forced to surrender in a few days.</p> + +<p>From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the +army to Dundalk, where the troops were encamped on +low and wet ground, and suffered much in their health.</p> + +<p>While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the +Duke of Norfolk was succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir +Henry Bellasis, who had commanded the Sixth regiment +of foot when it was in the Dutch service.</p> + +<p>On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its +march from Dundalk for Armagh, for winter-quarters.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1690</div> + +<p>In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to +serve at the battle of the <em>Boyne</em>, under the eye of its +Sovereign, who commanded the army in Ireland in person; +and on this occasion it took part in forcing the passage of +the river, and in gaining a decisive victory over the army +of King James on the 1st of July.</p> + +<p>Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin, +the regiment was reviewed by King William at Finglass, +on the 8th of July, and mustered six hundred and twenty-eight +rank and file under arms. It was afterwards +detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against Athlone; +but that fortress was found better provided for a siege +than had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the +army.</p> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> was one of the corps employed at +the siege of <em>Limerick</em>. Many things combined to prevent +the capture of that fortress until the following year, and +when the siege was raised, the regiment proceeded into +winter-quarters, from whence it sent out detachments, +which had several rencounters with bands of armed +peasantry, called Rapparees.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1691</div> + +<p>On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span> +commanded by Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards +Earl of Athlone) on its march for <em>Ballymore</em>, which fortress +was speedily forced to surrender.</p> + +<p>From Ballymore, the regiment marched to <em>Athlone</em>, and +had the honour to take part in the siege of that fortress, +which was captured by storm on the 1st of July. The +grenadier company of the regiment formed part of the +storming party, which forded the river Shannon under a +heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry. +The capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid +achievements which have exalted the reputation of the +British arms, and its reduction proved a presage of additional +triumphs.</p> + +<p>Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone, +General St. Ruth retreated, with the French and Irish +army under his orders, to a position at <em>Aghrim</em>, where he +was attacked on the 12th of July. On this occasion, the +regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by its +Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it +contributed towards the complete overthrow of the army +of King James, which was driven from the field with +severe loss, including its commander, General St. Ruth, +who was killed by a cannon-ball.</p> + +<p>The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers +killed; one Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded.</p> + +<p>On the 19th of July the army approached <em>Galway</em>; +after sunset six regiments of foot and four squadrons of +horse and dragoons passed the river by pontoons, and on +the following morning they captured some outworks. On +the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General +Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway, +and he took possession of the town with the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +and two other regiments of foot.</p> + +<p>The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span> +and capitulation of <em>Limerick</em>, which city was surrendered +in September, and completed the deliverance of Ireland +from the power of King James.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1692<br />1695</div> + +<p>After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed +in garrison and other duties of home-service, +until 1695, when it proceeded to the Netherlands, to +reinforce the army commanded by King William III., +who was engaged in war for the preservation of the +liberties of Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of +France. After landing at Ostend, the regiment was +placed in garrison.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1696</div> + +<p>Some advantages had been gained over the French +arms; to counteract which, Louis XIV. attempted to +weaken the confederates by forming plans for causing +England to become the theatre of civil war. With this +view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in +the French service were sent to England in disguise, to +instigate the adherents of King James to take arms; a +plot was also formed for the assassination of King William, +and a French army marched to the coast to be in readiness +to embark for England. Under these circumstances +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment and a number of other +corps were ordered to return to England, where they +arrived in March, 1696, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> landed +at Gravesend. The conspirators for the assassination of +King William were discovered; several persons were +apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the +French ports, and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1697</div> + +<p>In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded +at Ryswick, and the British Monarch saw his efforts for +the civil and religious liberties of Europe attended with +success.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1698<br />1700</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was afterwards sent to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> +Ireland, where it was stationed during the remainder of the +reign of King William III.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1701</div> + +<p>On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment +was conferred on Brigadier-General William +Selwyn, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis, +who was removed to the Second foot, then styled +the Queen Dowager's regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1702</div> + +<p>King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded +by Queen Anne, who declared war against France. +Brigadier-General Selwyn was nominated Governor of +Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of Major-General on +the 10th of June, 1702. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other +corps also embarked for stations in the West Indies: the +British government designing to make a general attack +on the possessions of France and Spain in South America.</p> + +<p>Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded +in the colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel, +Thomas Handasyd, by commission dated the 20th +of June, 1702.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1703</div> + +<p>A considerable body of troops arrived in the West +Indies in 1703: but they were afterwards recalled to take +part in the war in Europe. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was left at the island of Jamaica, and during the +reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in +protecting Jamaica, and the other British settlements in +the West Indies, which important duty it performed with +reputation.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1704<br />1705</div> + +<p>While employed on this duty, the regiment received +drafts from several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation +of two companies was made to its establishment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1712</div> + +<p>Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General +in December, 1705, and to that of Major-General +in January, 1710. In 1712 he retired from the colonelcy,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> +resigning his commission in favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel +Roger Handasyd, of the regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1713<br />1714</div> + +<p>In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace +to Europe; and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was +issued for the men of the regiment fit for duty to be formed +into two independent companies for service at Jamaica: +the officers and staff returning to Europe to recruit.</p> + +<p>The two independent companies thus formed from the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were the nucleus of the <span class="allsmcap">FORTY-NINTH</span> +regiment, which was formed of independent companies at +Jamaica in 1743.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1715<br />1718</div> + +<p>The officers and the serjeants not required for the +independent companies, having arrived in England, were +actively employed in recruiting in 1715; and in 1718 +the regiment proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1719<br />1726</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight +years from 1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned +year, it proceeded to the island of Minorca, +which had been captured by the English, in 1708, and +was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in +1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1727</div> + +<p>In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged +<em>Gibraltar</em>, and a detachment of the regiment, being sent +to reinforce the garrison, had the honor to take part in +the successful defence of that important fortress. When +the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment rejoined +the regiment at Minorca.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1730</div> + +<p>Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with +reputation until 1730, when he was removed to the +Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by Brigadier-General +William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1734</div> + +<p>Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth +foot in 1734, when King George II. conferred the +colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment on Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> +the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the First +foot-guards.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1737</div> + +<p>On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable +James St. Clair was removed to the First, the Royal +regiment of foot, and his Majesty nominated Major-General +John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the colonelcy +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1738</div> + +<p>Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November, +1738, and the colonelcy was afterwards conferred on +Colonel Thomas Paget, from the Thirty-second regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1739<br />1741</div> + +<p>In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of May, 1741, +and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by +Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth foot.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1748<br />1749</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was employed in the +protection of the island of Minorca, during the whole of +the War of the Austrian Succession, and, peace having +been concluded, it was relieved from that duty in 1749, +and proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1751</div> + +<p>In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and +distinctions of the several regiments of the army, dated +the 1st of July, 1751, the facings of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment were directed to be of <em>pale buff</em>. The First, or +King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second, or +Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in +the upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number +of the Rank of the regiment, in gold Roman characters, +within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1755<br />1756</div> + +<p>The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755 +by the aggressions of the French on the British territory in +North America; and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was +declared against France; in the same year the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment embarked from Ireland for North +America.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1757</div> + +<p>In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> +Forty-third, Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the +Sixtieth, under Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with +the view of being employed in the attack of <em>Louisburg</em>, +the capital of the French island of <em>Cape Breton</em>, situate +in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was +deferred until the following year, and the regiment was +stationed in Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General +O'Farrell died in the summer of this year, and the +colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Brigadier-General +Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of +the Thirty-sixth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1758</div> + +<p>Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the +command of Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the +regiment proceeded with the expedition commanded by +Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, and a landing +was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the 8th +of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry. +The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had Lieutenants Pierce Butler, +John Jermyn, and William Hamilton wounded; also +several private soldiers killed and wounded.<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> + +<p>The siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, the capital of the island, was +afterwards commenced; and in carrying on the approaches +the troops underwent great fatigue with cheerful alacrity. +By their perseverance, and the co-operation of the fleet, +the town was taken in July, and two other islands in the +Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the thanks +of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for +their conduct on this occasion.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1759</div> + +<p>During the year 1759 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was stationed at Louisburg. Major-General James +Wolfe proceeded up the river St. Lawrence, with a small<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> +armament,<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> and Quebec was captured; but the nation +sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was +killed in the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front +of Quebec, on the 13th of September, 1759.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1760</div> + +<p>In the spring of 1760 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> and Fortieth +regiments proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel +Lord Rollo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, up the river St. +Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they advanced upon +<em>Montreal</em>, with the troops under Brigadier-General the +Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in +Canada were invaded at three points, and the Governor +concentrated his forces at Montreal; but he was unable +to withstand the valour and discipline of British troops, +commanded by officers of talent and experience; he +therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada, +the French battalions becoming prisoners of war. The +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had thus the honor of taking part in the +conquest of the two fine provinces of Upper and Lower +Canada, which have since continued to form part of the +possessions of the British Crown.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1761</div> + +<p>After the conquest of Canada, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were removed to Albany, from whence they proceeded to +New York, in April, 1761, and afterwards embarked, +under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies.</p> + +<p>The island of <em>Dominica</em> had been declared neutral; but +it was found to be so much under the influence of France, +and proved a refuge to so many privateers of that nation, +that the British government resolved to take possession of +it. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and other corps under +Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June, +under cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> +the enemy from his batteries: the grenadiers of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment distinguished themselves on +this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to +submission with little loss.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1762</div> + +<p>From Dominica the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded to +Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, and joined the troops assembled +at that place under the orders of Major-General the +Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the French +island of <em>Martinique</em>. After several attempts on other +parts of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des +Navières Bay, on the 16th of January, 1762; the works +on the heights of <em>Morne Tortenson</em> were captured on the +24th of that month; <em>Morne Garnier</em> was carried on the +27th; and the citadel of <em>Fort Royal</em> surrendered on the +4th of February. These successes were followed by the +surrender of the opulent city of St. Pierre, and the +submission of the whole island to the British Crown. The +Commander of the expedition stated in his despatch—"I +cannot find words to render that ample justice which is +due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have +had the honor to command. The difficulties they had +to encounter in the attack of an enemy possessed of +every advantage of art and nature were great; and +their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles, +furnishes a noble example of British spirit."</p> + +<p>The capture of Martinique was followed by that of +<em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em>; and the acquisition +of these islands gave additional honor to the expedition of +which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed part.</p> + +<p>Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering six hundred and +two rank and file, under the command of Major Loftus, +joined the expedition commanded by General the Earl of +Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and important +Spanish city of the <em>Havannah</em>, in the island of Cuba<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> +The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five +companies of the Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under +Brigadier-General Lord Rollo.</p> + +<p>Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament +arrived within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th +of June. A landing was effected on the following day, +and the <em>Moro</em> fort, being the key-position of the extensive +works which covered the town, was besieged. This proved +an undertaking of great difficulty; but every obstacle +was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea +forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of +July. An extensive series of batteries was prepared, and +opened, on the 11th of August, so well-directed a fire on the +works which protected the town, that the guns of the garrison +were soon silenced, and the important city of the Havannah +was surrendered to the British arms. Nine Spanish +men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the +stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour.</p> + +<p>In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who +was drowned at sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by +Major-General the Honorable Thomas Gage, from the +Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which was raised in +1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1763</div> + +<p>At the peace of Fontainebleau the <em>Havannah</em> was restored +to Spain, in exchange for the province of Florida, +on the continent of America; and in 1763 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment proceeded to <em>West Florida</em>.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1764<br />1765</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year +1764, and in 1765 it was relieved from duty in that +province, and embarked for Great Britain.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1766<br />1770<br />1772<br />1773</div> + +<p>From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at +various stations in England; during the years 1770, +1771, and 1772, it performed duty in Scotland; and in +1773 it proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> + +<div class="sidenote">1775</div> + +<p>While the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were stationed in Ireland +the misunderstanding between the English government +and the British provinces in North America, on the subject +of taxation, was followed by hostilities. The regiment +embarked from Ireland for North America in 1775, and +joined the troops at Boston under General Gage.</p> + +<p>During the night of the 16th of June the Americans +commenced fortifying the heights on the peninsula of +Charlestown, called <em>Bunker's Hill</em>; and on the following +day they were attacked by the flank companies of the +British corps, and by a few regiments, and driven from +their works. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> lost their commanding +officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who +died of his wounds. He was succeeded by Major +James Campbell.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1776</div> + +<p>General Sir William Howe assumed the command of +the British troops in North America, on General Gage +returning to England in October, 1775; in March, 1776, +Boston was vacated, when the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded +to Nova Scotia.</p> + +<p>From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition +to Staten Island, near New York; and, additional +troops having arrived from Europe, it was formed in +brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Sixty-third, +under Brigadier-General Francis Smith.</p> + +<p>A landing was effected on <em>Long Island</em> on the 22nd of +August; and on the 27th of that month the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were engaged in driving the Americans from +their positions at <em>Flat Bush</em> to their fortified lines at +<em>Brooklyn</em>. The flank companies had several men killed +and wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion +companies was limited to two men.</p> + +<p>The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and +passed the river to New York. They were followed by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> +the British, who gained possession of New York, captured +Fort Washington, and reduced a great part of the +Jerseys.</p> + +<p>During the winter the regiment was detached, with +several other corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and +Earl Percy, against <em>Rhode Island</em>. The regiment embarked +on this service in the beginning of December, and +a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that +month, the island was speedily reduced to submission.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1777</div> + +<p>During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in +Rhode Island. On the 10th of July the American +Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode Island with a few active +men, surprised Major-General Richard Prescott in his +quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1778</div> + +<p>In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General +Sullivan had taken the command of the American troops +at Providence, with the view of making a descent on +Rhode Island; and on the night of the 24th of May the +battalion companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, the flank +companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians, +embarked under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +to attack the enemy's quarters. After landing +three miles below <em>Warren</em>, early on the following morning, +a detachment under Captain Seir of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a +Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another +detachment destroyed a number of boats, a galley +of six twelve pounders, and two sloops, in the Kickamuct +River. The party then marched to Warren, destroyed a +park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer +sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further +quantity of stores was destroyed. The Americans assembled +in great numbers, and fired on the British from +a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> +<span class="smcap">Hamilton</span> of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, eight British, and +four Hessian soldiers were wounded.</p> + +<p>On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major +Eyre of the Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to +a creek near Taunton River, and inflicted a severe loss on +the Americans.</p> + +<p>The King of France having united with the Americans, +a French armament arrived off the coast, and formidable +preparations were made for the re-capture of Rhode +Island. The French fleet, however, sustained some +severe losses from a storm, and from the English navy. +A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan +landed at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and +commenced the siege of <em>Newport</em>, in defence of which place +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were employed. The place being defended +with great resolution, and the Americans being disappointed +of aid from the French fleet, they raised the siege, +and retired on the 29th of August. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth and +Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General +Smith, by the east road, to intercept the retreating +enemy. A stand was made by the Americans, and some +sharp fighting occurred, in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished +themselves. The Americans were driven from <em>Quakers' +Hill</em>, when they fell back to their works at the north end +of the island, from which they afterwards withdrew. +Major-General Pigot stated in his public despatch,—"To +these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add +Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the +general tribute due to the good conduct of every individual +under his command, has particularly distinguished +Lieut.-Colonel <span class="smcap">Campbell</span> and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment, on whom, by their position, the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> +greatest weight of the action fell." The regiment had +eleven rank and file killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns +Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two serjeants, and forty-eight +rank and file wounded; one man missing.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1779</div> + +<p>The British Commander-in-Chief in North America, +Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, having resolved to +vacate Rhode Island, the regiment embarked from thence +on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to New +York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1780</div> + +<p>During the remainder of the American War the regiment +was stationed at New York and the posts in advance +of that city.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1782</div> + +<p>General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed +to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and +King George III. conferred the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment on Major-General Charles O'Hara, +from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards.</p> + +<p>A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to +the regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be +designated the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE</span> regiment, +in order that a connexion between the corps and +that county should be cultivated, with the view of promoting +the success of the recruiting service.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1783</div> + +<p>The American War having terminated, the regiment +returned to Europe in 1783 and was stationed in South +Britain.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1785</div> + +<p>In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor, +under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and +furnished the usual guard at the Castle, where his Majesty +resided, an "<span class="allsmcap">ORDER OF MERIT</span>" was instituted in the corps, +with the view of promoting good order and discipline,—the +field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time +being, to be members of the order. The order consisted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> +of <span class="allsmcap">THREE CLASSES</span>: the first wore a silver medal gilt, +suspended to a blue riband two inches broad, and worn +round the neck; the second a silver medal, and the third +a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates for the +third class must have served seven years with an unblemished +character; for the second, fourteen; and for +the first, twenty-one years. On the 1st of July, the +<span class="smcap">King</span> was graciously pleased to accept from Lieut.-Colonel +Crosbie a medal of the first class of the regimental <span class="smcap">Order +of Merit</span>: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment +being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on +parade, with the non-commissioned officers and soldiers +selected to receive medals in front, the rules of the order +were read; the corps presented arms, the band played +"God save the King;" the members of the order took +off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each +member with his medal; the drums beating a point of +war during the whole time.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1787</div> + +<p>In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and +Jersey, where its establishment was augmented; and it +was ordered to be held in readiness for foreign service, +in consequence of some revolutionary proceedings in +Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to Portsmouth, +and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced. +Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of +the Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1788</div> + +<p>On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the +regiment received a very flattering mark of the high +estimation in which its conduct was held by the inhabitants.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1790</div> + +<p>The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring +of 1790, and proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on +the 5th of April.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1791</div> + +<p>Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the +Seventy-fourth Highlanders in April, 1791, and was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> +succeeded in the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of +the Army in Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1792</div> + +<p>In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform, +and the establishment was augmented.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1793</div> + +<p>Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France, +and the violent conduct of the republican government in +that country occasioned a war between Great Britain and +France, which commenced in 1793. In September of +that year the flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose +of taking part in the capture of the French West India +islands. They were followed by the battalion companies +in December.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1794</div> + +<p>The flank companies joined the armament under General +Sir Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing +at three different points on the island of <em>Martinique</em>, in +February, 1794, and accomplished in a short period the +conquest of that valuable colony.</p> + +<p>The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness +Prince Edward, afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the +light infantry under Major-General Dundas, were engaged +in the conquest of <em>St. Lucia</em> in the beginning of April.</p> + +<p>After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on +<em>Guadaloupe</em>, and that valuable island was speedily rescued +from the power of the republican government of France.</p> + +<p>The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique, +where it was joined by the flank companies.</p> + +<p>Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel +Lysaght, proceeded to the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>, and +formed part of the garrison of Cape St. Nicholas Mole: +and five companies joined the garrison of <em>Busy-town</em>, +which place was besieged by the enemy.</p> + +<p>In April, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Twenty-third, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> +Forty-first regiments, with some other troops, embarked +under the command of Brigadier-General John Whyte, +for the attack of <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, the capital of the French +possessions in the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>. A landing was +effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting occurred, +in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished themselves: +<em>Fort Bizzotton</em> was captured, and the enemy was +forced to abandon <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, which was taken possession +of by the British troops. The regiment had +Captain Wallace killed on this occasion, also several +private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a +malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British +lost forty officers and six hundred soldiers by disease +within two months after the capture of the place.</p> + +<p>A detachment of the regiment formed part of the +garrison of <em>Fort Bizzotton</em>, which was attacked by two +thousand of the enemy on the 5th of December. The +British defended their post with great gallantry, and +repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished himself.</p> + +<p>Another portion of the regiment was stationed at +Jeremie, and a detachment at Irois.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1795</div> + +<p>Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St. +Domingo, the regiment was relieved from duty at that +island, and returned to England in 1795.</p> + +<p>Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh +Light Dragoons, and the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +was conferred on Major-General William Crosbie, from +the Eighty-ninth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1798</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its +ranks until December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey.</p> + +<p>Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded +by Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the +Eighty-first regiment.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1799</div> + +<p>In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from +Guernsey, and landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that +month.</p> + +<p>On its return from the West Indies, the regiment +enlisted a number of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it +received drafts of boys, or lads, from other corps; it was +designated a boy regiment, and sent to the Cape of Good +Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be +gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become +better adapted for service in the East Indies, than recruits +sent direct from Europe to India.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1800</div> + +<p>In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked +for the Cape of Good Hope, where it arrived in +May and June following. The companies on board of +one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in consequence +of their crowded state: the crew was composed +of Lascars, among whom much disease prevailed; the +infection was communicated to the soldiers, and the men +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> suffered in their health; sixty +soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital, before +the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape +in a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working +the vessel during the voyage, and the masts and rigging +had been damaged during a gale of wind.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1801</div> + +<p>The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg, +and afterwards encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land +projecting from the east side of Table Mountain. The +sick men received every attention which could be procured +by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the +Cape, and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters, +which were removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801, +and again encamped at Wynberg in March. In May +the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in September +joined the camp at Rondebosch.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> + +<p>The lads having become much improved in size and +strength, the light infantry company joined the flank +battalion; and the grenadiers were detached to the interior, +and stationed at Graaff Reinett.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1802</div> + +<p>Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was +removed to Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett.</p> + +<p>The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed +to India, it was joined by a number of volunteers from +corps serving at the Cape of Good Hope, and embarked +from thence in September, October, and November, when +it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and +fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for +duty.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1803</div> + +<p>In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment +landed at Fort William, Calcutta, where the other companies +had previously arrived.</p> + +<p>At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao +Scindia and Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers +of the Peishwa, and were desolating the Mahratta states +with war; and these two chiefs, with the Rajah of Berar, +formed a confederacy against the British and their allies. +Under these circumstances the flank companies of the +regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the +field force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for +the attack of the province of Cuttack. On entering that +province, the troops had to overcome numerous difficulties +from the nature of the country, the season of the year, +and the resistance of the enemy, which they surmounted +with great gallantry.</p> + +<p>On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment highly distinguished themselves +at the capture of the fort of <em>Barrabatta</em> by storm, when +they led the assault, and took several of the enemy's colours. +They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and eight<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> +soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth +Native Infantry, were publicly displayed at +Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort William, with +an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1804</div> + +<p>The flank companies of the regiment remained in the +field, and the splendid successes of the British arms appeared +likely to bring about a speedy termination of the +war; but hostilities were protracted by the defection of the +Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two +men killed and three wounded at the capture of <em>Deeg</em>, in +December, and were engaged in the attempt to bring the +refractory Rajah Sing to submission by the siege of the +strong fortress of Bhurtpore.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1805</div> + +<p>In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its +march from Fort William, for the Upper provinces, and +in January, 1805, it halted and encamped at Benares; +but resumed its march in February, and proceeded to +Cawnpore.</p> + +<p>The siege of <em>Bhurtpore</em> was carried on, and the flank +companies were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to +capture that place by storm on the 9th of January, when +they had eleven men killed and twenty-four wounded. +They were also engaged in the desperate attempt to +capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when +they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains +Lindsay and McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman, +and Caswell, and thirty-one non-commissioned officers and +soldiers, wounded. At the third unsuccessful attack, on +the 21st of February, they had two serjeants and three +soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded.</p> + +<p>Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn +hope on each occasion, and his gallant conduct was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> +rewarded with the commission of ensign in the Sixty-fifth +regiment.</p> + +<p>Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace +with the British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore, +and the surviving officers and soldiers of the flank companies +joined the regiment at Cawnpore, in June.</p> + +<p>Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority, +and Scindia evinced a disposition to renew hostilities. +These events occasioned the regiment to quit Cawnpore, +in October, to pursue the army of Holkar, who was driven +from place to place, until the British troops arrived at the +banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted, and +a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia +also concluded a second treaty, and the British power and +influence in India were thus augmented and consolidated.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1806</div> + +<p>From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched +to Delhi, where it arrived in February, 1806, and in +March it was removed to Muttra, where it received the +thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the Governor-General +in Council, for its conduct during the war.</p> + +<p>On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in +1806, was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by +Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth +foot.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1807</div> + +<p>Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded +to Berhampore, where it arrived on the 7th of August.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1809</div> + +<p>Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed +colonel of the regiment on the 18th of September, +1809, from the Fifty-fourth foot, in succession to Sir +James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the Seventy-eighth +Highlanders.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1810</div> + +<p>The regiment remained at Berhampore until August, +1810, when it embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort +William, in order to form part of the expedition against<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> +the <em>Mauritius</em>, under Major-General the Honorable J. +Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of +Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition, +and on the following day the troops advanced towards the +capital; being exposed to severe heat, and unable to +procure water, the soldiers became exhausted, and arriving +at the powder-mills, five miles from Port Louis, they halted +near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of +December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in +force, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> took part and had several men wounded. +The French were driven from their ground, and they +fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front +of the position occupied by the French. Being unable to +withstand the valour and discipline of the invading army, +the governor, General de Caen, surrendered the island to +the British arms.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1811</div> + +<p>After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was +stationed a short time at that island, and in January it +sent a detachment of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave, +in the Island of Madagascar. In March and April +the regiment was removed to the island of Bourbon, where +it was joined by the survivors of the detachment from +Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers +and twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by +the enemy, and re-captured by the British ships of war.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1812<br />1813</div> + +<p>In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius; +but again proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was +removed to the Mauritius a second time in May, 1813.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1814<br />1815</div> + +<p>A number of men having volunteered from the militia +to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, His Royal Highness +the Prince Regent was pleased to approve of a <em>second +battalion</em> being formed, and it was placed on the establishment +of the army on the 10th of February, 1814. +The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> +the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration +of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne of France, the second +battalion was disbanded at Chester, on the 24th of October, +transferring the men fit for duty to the first battalion, +which they joined at the Mauritius, in April, 1815, in so +good a state, as to be specially noticed in general orders, +and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party, +received the thanks of the governor.</p> + +<p>On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first +battalion of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first +battalion of the Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank +companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, were formed +into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June embarked +from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The +troops arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August; +re-embarked on the 23rd of September, and landed at +the Mauritius on the 14th of November, 1815. The +light company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, while +on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between +Ceylon and the opposite continent. The conduct of the +flank companies, while in India, was highly commended +in general orders issued before they embarked from Fort +William,—on their return to the Mauritius.</p> + +<p>While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was placed +under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven miles from Port +Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing disease +at the Mauritius. There being but a small force +left on the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency +by disease, a meditated insurrection had nearly attained +an outbreak, but for timely information.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1819</div> + +<p>The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius, +under the command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July, +1819, when it embarked for England. Previous to quitting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> +the island it was inspected by Major-General Ralph +Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his admiration +of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while +serving under his command.</p> + +<p>Though the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had participated in the +capture of the Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the +island presented a large and handsome gold snuff-box to +the regiment on its embarkation for England, bearing +this inscription, "<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment de S. M.—Souvenir +des Habitans de l'île Maurice</i>; 1819;" thus +testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly +and soldierlike conduct of the corps during its +service of nine years in the colony.</p> + +<p>After landing at Gosport, in November and December, +the regiment marched to Northampton, under the orders +of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.B.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1821</div> + +<p>In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to +Liverpool, where it embarked on the 9th of October, for +Ireland. Having landed at Dublin on the 10th of October, +the regiment marched to Buttevant, with detachments at +Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and Ballyclough.</p> + +<p>Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in +consequence of the riotous and violent proceedings of the +misguided peasantry at this part of the country, and the +disposition evinced to violate the law.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1822</div> + +<p>On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three +thousand men assembled with such arms as they could +procure, for an attack on Newmarket; and they were +repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men of the regiment, +under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel +Green, who received the expression of the approbation of +His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, +and were presented with a silver cup, by the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> +noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of the town and +vicinity of Newmarket,—"In testimony of the high sense +entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and +defeating an armed body of three thousand insurgents, +with thirty men."</p> + +<p>A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the +regiment performed many marches, and much extra +duty, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1823<br />1824</div> + +<p>The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at +Buttevant during the year 1823, and the first nine months +of 1824; and the state of the regiment was repeatedly +commended in orders by the General Officers who made +the half-yearly inspections.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1826</div> + +<p>In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it +was subsequently stationed in Galway, and in the summer +of 1826 it was divided into six service and four depôt +companies, in order that the former might proceed on +foreign service.</p> + +<p>The service companies embarked from Cork in November +and December, in three divisions, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, and +Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division arrived at +the island of Jamaica in February, 1827.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1827</div> + +<p>The service companies suffered severely from the effects +of the climate of Jamaica; in September and October, +1827, they lost three officers, seventeen serjeants, and one +hundred and twenty men, from fever; the total loss during +the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James +Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant Edward +Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant +William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two +non-commissioned officers and soldiers.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1828<br />1829</div> + +<p>In the following year the losses were much less numerous; +and in April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> +arrived and assumed the command. In June of the same +year, the regiment received the thanks of the civil authorities +for the prompt assistance rendered in extinguishing +an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1830</div> + +<p>On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked +from Cork for South Britain, where they were +stationed until the summer of 1836, when they embarked +from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1831</div> + +<p>The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable +insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica in the +winter of 1831-2; the two flank companies were +encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the following +winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in +Jamaica, in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks +of the custos and magistrates were awarded to the corps +for its good conduct.<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p> + +<div class="sidenote">1837</div> + +<p>The service companies performed duty at the island of +Jamaica until the beginning of 1837, when they commenced +embarking for Europe, and landed at Cork in +March and April; they were afterwards joined by the +depôt companies.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1838<br />1839<br />1840</div> + +<p>The regiment remained in Ireland during the years +1838 and 1839; and embarking from Dublin on the 19th +of December, 1840, landed at Liverpool on the 21st of +that month.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1841</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, having been selected<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> +to proceed to India, embarked from Gravesend in January, +1841, and landed at Bombay in May following. It afterwards +proceeded to Poonah, where an encampment was +formed, and the regiment was stationed there during the +remainder of the year.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1842</div> + +<p>In the following year the regiment quitted the camp +at Poonah by divisions, and proceeding to the country of +Scinde, was encamped some time near Kurrachee. The +regiment was encamped in two separate divisions at +Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its +ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its +prevalence a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole, +consisting of two companies, was ordered to proceed by +the Indus, in the month of April, 1842, to Sukkur, in +Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal of the British +force from Beloochistan.</p> + +<p>The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the +British in 1839, and application was made to the Ameers, +who governed the country, for a portion of land on the banks +of the river. This they agreed to give; but at the same +time meditated the destruction of the British power in the +country by treachery. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> quitted the +camp at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the +country.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1843</div> + +<p>The regiment formed part of the force assembled under +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in +the destruction of the fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, in the desert, +on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843.</p> + +<p>Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled +"<em>The Conquest of Scinde</em>," has given, with his characteristic +eloquence, the following spirited description of the +march to <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, a march which His Grace the +Duke of Wellington described in the House of Lords, "<em>as +one of the most curious military feats he had ever known to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> +be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life. +Sir Charles Napier</em> (added His Grace) <em>moved his troops +through the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns +transported under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and +in a manner the most extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat +of the enemy which rendered it impossible for them ever to +regain their positions</em>."</p> + +<p>"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness +through which they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were +passing. The sand-hills stretched north and south for +hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at top, and +most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore +after a placid tide. Varying in their heights, +their breadth and steepness, they presented one uniform +surface, but while some were only a mile broad, others +were more than ten miles across; some were of gentle +slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the +howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The +sand was mingled with shells, and ran in great streams +resembling numerous rivers, skirted on each side by +parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle, yet +thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and +wild boar, and the prints of small deer's footsteps, were +sometimes seen at first, but they soon disappeared, and +then the solitude of the waste was unbroken.</p> + +<p>"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this +gloomy region, living from hand to mouth, uncertain +each morning if water could be found in the evening; +and many times it was not found. They were not even +sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and +untiring strength, they continued their dreary dangerous +way. The camels found very little food, and got weak, +but the stout infantry helped to drag the heavy howitzers +up the sandy steeps; and all the troops, despising<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> +the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked +with a power and will that overcame every obstacle. +On the eighth day they reached <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, eager +to strike and storm, and then was seen how truly laid +down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in +war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan, +with a strong fortress well provided, and having a garrison +six times as numerous as the band coming to +assail him, had fled with his treasure two days before; +taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by +tracks with which his people were well acquainted, +leaving all his stores of grain and powder behind."</p> + +<p>As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in +which the Beloochees might be able to resist British +supremacy, Major-General Sir Charles Napier determined +upon destroying the fortress. It was a place of great +strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks, into +which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing +down, so that recourse was had to mining. The place +was full of gunpowder and grain, and the former was +employed in blowing up the fortress, which was effected +on the 15th of January.</p> + +<p>After this difficult and harassing service, the troops +returned triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr, +where Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited +his whole army. It is to be observed that the +march was performed without the loss of a man, or without +even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed, +and their plan of campaign frustrated.</p> + +<p>A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the +14th of February: directions were sent to the British +political resident, Major Outram, by the Ameers, to +quit <em>Hyderabad</em>, the capital, and before this was complied +with, <em>eight thousand</em> Beloochees, commanded by several<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span> +Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into +the enclosure of the British residency. The light company +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering <em>one +hundred</em> men, under Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenant +F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only +force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded +by a wall from four to five feet high. The gallant +officers and soldiers of this company kept the eight +thousand Scindian troops, with six pieces of artillery, at +bay nearly four hours; and when their ammunition was +nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with Major +Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels, +joined the troops under Major-General Sir Charles +Napier, at Hala. The light company had two men killed +and four wounded on this occasion.</p> + +<p>The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled +a numerous force to destroy the few British +troops in the country. Major-General Sir Charles Napier, +trusting to the valour of the troops under his orders, +advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February, +<em>twenty-two thousand</em> Scindian troops were discovered in +position behind the bank of a river at <em>Meeanee</em>. The +British, mustering <em>two thousand eight hundred</em> men, advanced +in <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">echelon</i> of regiments to attack their numerous +opponents, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead +the attack. A numerous body of Beloochees discharged +their matchlocks and pistols at the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and +then rushed forward sword in hand to close upon the +British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went +down under the superior power of the musket and bayonet.</p> + +<p>After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated, +and, on the day following the victory, six of the Ameers +delivered their swords to the British General upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> +field of battle. The Beloochees lost five thousand men, +and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure were taken, +together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of +February, the British colours waved in triumph over the +fortress of <em>Hyderabad</em>.</p> + +<p>In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "<cite>The +Conquest of Scinde</cite>," is given the following spirited and +picturesque description of the battle of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p> + +<p>"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and +covered by the village of Kattree, which was filled with +men; that flank offered no weak point. But in the +Shikargah on their left the General instantly detected +a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was +covered by a wall, having only one opening, not very +wide, through which it was evident the Beloochees +meant to pour out on the flank and rear of the advancing +British line. The General rode near this wall, +and found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer, +and marked it had no loop-holes for the enemy to +shoot through; he rode into the opening under a play +of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall, saw there +was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over +the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the +aid of heroism. Taking a company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +he thrust them at once into the opening, telling +their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block up that +entrance; to die there, if it must be,—never to give way! +And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he +died there, but the opening was defended. The great +disparity of numbers was thus abated, and the action +of six thousand men paralysed by the more skilful +action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to +numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won +Blenheim for the Duke of Marlborough.</p> + +<div class="figcenter illowp59" id="PL_2" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_032fp.jpg" alt="" /> + <div class="caption">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + </div> +</div> +<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p> +<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> + +<p>"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments, +approached the enemy's front. The British +right passed securely under the wall of the Shikargah, +cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling +sound of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the +dead level of the plain was swept by the Beloochee +cannon and matchlocks, which were answered from +time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for +rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to +close with their unseen foes. When the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +had got within a hundred yards of the high +sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at +the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees +could be just seen, bending with fiery glances over +the levelled matchlocks, and the voice of the General, +shrill and clear, was heard along the line, commanding +the charge.</p> + +<p>"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were +run forward into position, the infantry closed upon the +Fulaillee with a run, and rushed up the sloping bank. +The Beloochees, having their matchlocks laid ready in +rest along the summit, waited until the assailants were +within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the +rapid pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope +on the inside, deceived their aim, and the execution +was not great; the next moment the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear down all +before them, but they staggered back in amazement +at the forest of swords waving in their front! Thick +as standing corn, and gorgeous as a field of flowers, +stood the Beloochees in their many-coloured garments +and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed of the +Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered +the plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> +large dark shields, they shook their sharp swords, +beaming in the sun, their shouts rolled like a peal of +thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed forwards, +and full against the front of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +dashed with demoniac strength and ferocity. But with +shouts as loud, and shrieks as wild and fierce as theirs, +and hearts as big, and arms as strong, the Irish soldiers +met them with that queen of weapons the musket, and +sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood."</p> + +<p>The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General +Sir Charles Napier testify the part borne by the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> in the victory of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p> + +<p>"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely +wounded as with the high courage of a soldier he +led his regiment (<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>) up the desperate +bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains +Tucker and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and +Phayre, were all wounded, while gloriously animating +their men to sustain the shock of numbers."</p> + +<p>"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant +Wood, all fell honorably, urging on the assault with +unmitigated valour.</p> + +<p>"Major Poole, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and Captain +Jackson of the Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded +to the command of those regiments, proved +themselves worthy of their dangerous posts.</p> + +<p>"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, +Lieutenant McMurdo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +had his horse killed, and, while on foot leading +some soldiers in <ins class="corr" id="tn-34" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'a deperate dash'"> +a desperate dash</ins> down the enemy's side of the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has +greatly assisted me by his activity and zeal during the +whole of our operations.</p> + +<p>"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span> +which took place between our soldiers and their +opponents, too numerous for detail in this despatch, yet +well meriting a record."</p> + +<p>In the <span class="allsmcap">NOTIFICATION</span> of the Right Honorable Lord +Ellenborough, the Governor-General of India, it was +directed,</p> + +<p>"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad, +shall be sent to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal +column, whereon shall be inscribed in the English, and +two native languages, the names of Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several officers +mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and +likewise the names of the several officers, non-commissioned +officers, and privates mentioned in the reports, +that thus the names may be for ever recorded of those +who, at <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, obtained for themselves that glory in +the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier."</p> + +<p>Major Poole, commanding the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +in consequence of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather +having been severely wounded, stated in his report, +respecting the soldiers of the regiment under his command, +who had distinguished themselves in the battle of +Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they +feel difficulty in making selections, where the conduct +of every man of their companies was so satisfactory. +In so general a field of action and persevering exertion, +I equally feel at a loss where to draw a distinction; +but it may be proper to mention the names of Private +James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a +standard whilst we were actively engaged with the +enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who shot, +bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee +Mahomed Khan, who was mounted, and directing the +enemy in the hottest part of the engagement."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> + +<p>The loss of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment at the battle +of Meeanee was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> one serjeant, +and twenty-two rank and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L. +Pennefather, Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenants W. M. +G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R. Pennefather +and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and +fifty privates wounded.</p> + +<p>The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs +who continued to resist assembled an army, which was +commanded by Meer Shere Mahomed. The British advanced +from <em>Hyderabad</em> at daybreak on the morning of +the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock +twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order +of battle behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately +made for commencing the action, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment led the attack in gallant style. Major +John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D. +George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic +example of these officers, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> advanced +steadily against the enemy's left, exposed to a heavy fire +of matchlocks, without returning a shot, until they arrived +within forty paces of the entrenchment, when they stormed +the position occupied by the Beloochees with that determined +bravery which has ever distinguished British +soldiers. Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the +rampart, seized one of the enemy's standards, and was +severely wounded while in the act of waving it, and cheering +on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized another +standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> +example of their officers, displayed that heroism which +adorns the British military character. Privates J. Doherty, +C. Lynar, E. Jobin, J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G. +Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot the defenders, +and then captured fourteen standards, and made five +prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury +also captured standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot +one of the Scindians, and took from him a silver-knobbed +standard. The Beloochee infantry and artillery fought +well, but were unable, although greatly superior in +numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined +soldiers.</p> + +<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public +despatch, "The battle was decided by the troop of Horse +Artillery, and Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p> + +<p>"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant +Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too +highly; and regret to say, he has received a sabre +wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut down in +single combat during the day.</p> + +<p>"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and +the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates +under their command, I have to return my thanks for +their valiant bearing in the action."</p> + +<p>The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven +pieces of cannon were taken in position on the nullah, +together with seventeen standards. The Beloochee force +was completely defeated, and their commander, Meer Shere +Mahomed, fled to the desert.<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> Among the killed was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> +the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee. +Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed +on this occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J. +Coote, H. A. G. Evans, and John Brennan, Ensign +Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one drummer, four +corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates +wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment +mustered only five hundred and sixty-two rank and file; +the remainder being sick and convalescent, having been +left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde.</p> + +<p>As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories, +Her Majesty, on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint +Major-General Sir Charles James Napier a Knight +Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of +the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span> +Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George, +and Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions +of the Bath, and their brevet rank was dated from the +above period.</p> + +<p>Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command +that a medal should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned +Officers, and Soldiers engaged in the battles +of Meeanee and Hyderabad.</p> + +<p>On the 18th of August, 1843, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +received the Royal authority to bear upon the regimental +or second colour, and on the appointments, the word +"<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," in commemoration of its distinguished gallantry +in the campaign against the Ameers of that +country, during the early part of the year 1843.</p> + +<p>Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred +increased honor on the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, by authorising +the corps to bear on the regimental colour and appointments, +in addition to the word "<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," the words +"<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>" and "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>," in commemoration of +the distinguished gallantry displayed in the general +engagements fought at those places respectively, on the +17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843.</p> + +<p>On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament +were voted to Major-General Sir Charles Napier, +G.C.B., and to the troops under his command, "<em>for the +eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by him in +the recent military operations in</em> <span class="smcap">Scinde</span>, <em>particularly in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> +the two decisive battles of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>;" +to the several officers serving under Sir Charles Napier, +"<em>for their unwearied zeal and conspicuous gallantry</em>;" and +to the troops, "<em>for their brave and meritorious conduct</em>."</p> + +<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the +regiments at Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them +for their gallantry in this campaign, addressed the soldiers +as follows:—</p> + +<p>"Soldiers! the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em> is among those of +which history will speak as proving the superiority of +<em>discipline</em> over numbers; and it is well, Soldiers! that we +should dwell upon these things; that we may understand +how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed.</p> + +<p>"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would +not have won the victories of <em>Meeanee</em> and <em>Hyderabad</em>! +Valour is like the <em>Strength</em> of a man, Discipline is like +his <em>Mind</em>, that directs his strength to effective exertion. +If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one strikes +at random, while the other boxes with science, planting +every blow home, we know how the fight must be soon +decided. So it is with two armies,—the one disciplined, +the other without discipline. The General of the disciplined +Army directs his columns upon that part of the +enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as +the mind of the boxer directs his blow against the opening +offered by his unskilful enemy. But this is not all,—obedience +to orders (which is discipline) enables us to +bring up all the necessary provisions of war to the day +and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at hand +to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and +the body are thrown forward to support and give vigour +to the blow of the pugilist. But not only is valour +useless without discipline, but it is even dangerous; +for without discipline the rashly brave would run<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span> +heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek +'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus +the Army would be scattered: but when an Army is +disciplined, the ponderous charges of Cavalry, the steady +tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing to charge +with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery +pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously +to strike and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers, +are Medals won, more by discipline than by any extraordinary +efforts of individual courage. To reward +this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man +who wears this honoured badge is known to the world +as one who, in the midst of the noise, the danger, and +confusion of battle, had obeyed orders, and performed +the three great duties of a Soldier—first, not to fire +without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so +as to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to +keep his rank and dress upon his colours. The Medal +tells the world that he has bravely done these things, +and no man can walk with one of these Medals on his +breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid +Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be +low caste, but the Soldier, who bears on his breast a +medal won in battle, is above all the castes in the world. +The pleasure of giving you these Medals, Soldiers of +the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to +me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing +the reward which you honorably earned, and my +satisfaction is increased by the presence of so large a +body of Europeans, for it affords me an opportunity of +saying to my countrymen that they will find these swarthy +warriors of the East <ins class="corr" id="tn-41" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'stanch and true'"> +staunch and true</ins> in action as they were at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed +the example set them by the glorious <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></span> +regiment. They will fight to the last drop of their blood, +and stand or fall by the side of their European comrades. +If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times, +War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted +to lead an Army into the field, I should go into +action with perfect confidence in the courage of the +Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their gallantry, +not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and +from my own knowledge, of their daring courage.</p> + +<p>"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner +to the Officers now before me, and in justice to them +say, that their conduct, and the conduct of all the British +Officers in these two battles, was very noble. For several +hours the two lines were fighting close to each other, +and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw +the British Officers display their worthiness as Military +leaders, and with unflinching intrepidity animating their +Soldiers to battle! To them, therefore, I will now first +distribute these honorable decorations."</p> + +<p>The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the +line of officers of several regiments, and who had not +before received their medals, his Excellency presented +each with the Medal,—the bands playing "God save the +Queen."</p> + +<p>On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston, +of the 25th N. I., the General observed,—"But for you, +Marston, I probably should not have had this pleasure;" +alluding to this Officer having intrepidly thrown himself +in front of his General when attacked by a Beloochee +Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach +the General.</p> + +<p>On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and +proceeded to Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters +embarked on the 27th of April, and sailed to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span> +Bombay. Previously to the embarkation of the regiment +for Bombay, the following order was issued by Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="right">"<em>27th April, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment!</p> + +<p> "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and +you also know how much I dislike doing so. But nothing +shall stand in the way of your health and well-being, +that I have the power to remove. Cut up by +Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may +again join us, and add to the Laurels with which you are +already decorated.</p> + +<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br /> +<em>Governor</em>."</p> +</div> + +<p>The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd +of May, was distinguished by high marks of honor, by +command of the Governor, on which occasion the accompanying +order was issued:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="right">"<em>Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="smcap">Garrison Orders.</span></p> + +<p> "By the Honorable the Governor.—The Head-Quarters +of Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment +of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be disembarked +to-morrow morning at sunrise.</p> + +<p>"On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief +of the Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of +honor to this distinguished Corps, will himself receive +it at the Apollo Pier.</p> + +<p>"On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute +is to be fired from the Saluting Battery.</p> + +<p>"The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn +up in Review Order, in a convenient position, and will +salute Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, as it +passes on its way to Fort George Barracks.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> + +<p>"His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military +Officers at the Presidency who may not be sick, or +engaged on other duty.</p> + +<p>"The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to +carry out the above order.</p> + +<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">Bruce Seton</span>, <em>Major</em>,<br /> +<em>Town Major</em>."</p> +</div> + +<p>The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration +of the gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a +public banquet to the Officers of the corps; and the +inhabitants of Bombay, including the Civil Authorities, +raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to the +benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and +orphans, by the Campaign in Scinde.</p> + +<p>The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, +and proceeded from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on +the 23rd of May. The right wing and head-quarters +arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of June.</p> + +<p>General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th +of October, 1843, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred +on Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, K.C.B.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1844</div> + +<p>On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment +marched from Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the +19th the whole moved together for Field Service in the +Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost two officers, +and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by +cholera.</p> + +<p>A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the +north pettah under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the +27th of November; on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of +November the regiment, under the command of Brevet +Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment +of <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em>, and on the 1st of December +was at the capture of those forts, the latter of which was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span> +taken by the regiment. During these operations the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> formed part of the third brigade of the +force employed under Major-General Delamotte.</p> + +<p>On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment +marched, and joined the first brigade on service in the +Sawunt-Warree district; the other wing remained near +Kolapore.</p> + +<p>On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment +arrived at Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the +first brigade of the Field Force in the Sawunt-Warree +country, and was employed in investing the forts of +Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the +operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades +in the densely wooded country between Susseedroog and +the Forts.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1845</div> + +<p>The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; +on the 17th of January, 1845, part of the wing descended +the Elephant rock with other troops, and took the village +of Seevapore, in the Concan, close under Fort Monuhurr, +where one man was killed and seven wounded. The whole +of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or +heights above, and part in the Concan close under the +forts, investing them from the 17th to the 26th of January, +during which period the forts were constantly shelled by +the British artillery, the enemy from the forts firing their +great guns and musketry.</p> + +<p>On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated +the forts unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, +leaving the forts in the possession of the Anglo-Indian army.</p> + +<p>The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th +of February, escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. +The regiment was employed in doing duty +over about six hundred prisoners <ins class="corr" id="tn-45" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'until its recal'"> +until its recall</ins> to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, and +arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> + +<p>A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank +and file, under the command of Captain Souter, marched +from Poonah for Bombay on the 25th of December, 1845.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1846</div> + +<p>The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command +of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting +of five companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay +on the 15th of August, 1846, and joined the wing of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> at that station. The march was performed +in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain +consequently falling nearly the whole of the way.</p> + +<p>The regiment remained together at Bombay, having +six companies at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until +the 14th of November, 1846, when the head-quarters, +with five of the companies which were stationed at Colaba, +were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever of a +malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every +soldier at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in +less than two months; the casualties were very numerous.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1847<br />1848</div> + +<p>The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched +from Bombay on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived +at Poonah on the 21st of January. During the year +1848 the regiment continued to be stationed at Poonah.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1849</div> + +<p>On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded +to Bombay, and was subsequently stationed at Colaba. +The left wing, consisting of four companies, embarked for +Kurrachee on the 24th of January.</p> + +<p>In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has +been extended, the regiment remained at Colaba, and +consisted of fifty-three serjeants, nineteen drummers, and +1042 rank and file, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel +Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau +being in command of the Poonah brigade.</p> + + +<p class="p4" /> +<hr class="r20a" /> +<p class="pfs120">1849.</p> +<hr class="r20a" /> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="PL_3" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> + <img class="p4 w100" src="images/i_b_047fp.jpg" alt="" /> +</div> +<p class="p2 right fs70">BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE,<br /> +BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 1843.</p> + +<p class="p1 noindent fs70">SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF<br /> +MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843.</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70"><em>For Cannon's Military Records.</em></p> +<p class="fs70"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p> + + +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span><br /></p> + +<p class="p2 negin2"><em>Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle +of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, <em>on the 17th of February, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was +taken at the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em>, on the 17th of February, 1843, +by Private James O'Neill of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +as narrated at <a href="#Page_35">page 35</a> of the Historical Record. The Standard +is triangular; the longest side is about seven feet in +length, and the other sides measure each about five feet. The +Staff is nine feet in length.</p> + +<p>The Standards captured at the Battle of <em>Hyderabad</em>, on the +24th of March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do +not afford a just idea of the Army which they may be supposed +to have led on. No person, on viewing these Trophies, would +suppose the Beloochee Army, to which they belonged, to have +been composed of men so gallant and so formidable; so well +armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, as the Scindian +troops proved themselves in these battles.</p> + +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p class="negin2"><em>Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of +the Victories of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>, <em>and conferred +on the Officers and Men engaged in those Battles.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">On the obverse; the bust of <span class="smcap">Her Majesty</span>, with the inscription +"<span class="smcap">Victoria Regina</span>."</p> + +<p>On the reverse; the words "<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>," "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>," +"1843," enclosed within branches of Laurel, and surmounted +by the Imperial Crown.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was +restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. +It was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to +Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> The grenadier company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, which +had been incorporated with the "<em>Louisburg Grenadiers</em>," formed +part of the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights +of Abraham on the 13th of September, 1759.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented +the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in +reference to the conduct of the regiment,—"I had myself the +means of knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, +whilst your head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally +popular, and their departure generally regretted. During the +few pleasant days I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the +flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed a part, I +remember upon remarking to the Major-General there commanding, +the perfect good conduct of all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew +better men.'"</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by +the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was +promoted Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was +appointed ensign in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, the commissions +being dated 18th February, 1843, the day following the battle of +Meeanee.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> The following interesting circumstance is recorded by Major-General +Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, respecting +the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere Mahomed:—</p> + +<p>"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the +Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat, +saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of water; +they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins and +struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that +moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the +generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their +own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then +they all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> men's +muskets for them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging +them to hold out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, +but soon fell. It was then discovered that these noble fellows +were all wounded, some deeply, but thinking there was to be +another fight, they had concealed their hurts, and forced nature to +sustain the loss of blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, +the long marches, and the sandy desert, that their last moments +might be given to their country on another field of battle!"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><em>Names of men of the</em> <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> <em>regiment who concealed their +wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with +their regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand.</em></p> +</div> + +<p>Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, +Henry Lines, Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, +James Mulvey, and Silvester Day.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp +to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having +been deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing +as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of +Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained.</p> + +<p>Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, +with Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and +becoming supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth +regiment from India in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, +1848, Colonel Pennefather was appointed to serve on the Staff of +the army in Ireland.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak fs100 lsp2" id="SUCCESSION">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs70">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs135">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + +<hr class="r30a" /> +<hr class="r30b" /> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk, K.G.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 16th March, 1689.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Lord Henry Howard</span>, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, +afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was summoned to parliament +in 1678, by the title of Lord Mowbray: and on the death of +Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship was nominated governor +and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden of the forest of +Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and Surrey. On +the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the dignity +of <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span>, and of Earl Marshal of England; and +in May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble +order of the Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of +the <span class="smcap">Duke of Monmouth</span>, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> took +great interest in raising a regiment of foot for the service of +King James II., now the twelfth regiment of foot, of which +he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve of the +measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to +the protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the +King gave the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> the sword of state to +carry with him to the Popish chapel, which he carried as far +as the door and then stopped, not being willing to enter the +chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your father would have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span> +gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,—"Your +Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not +have gone so far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and +joined in the invitation to the <span class="smcap">Prince of Orange</span>. When +the Prince landed, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> was in London, +and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for a free +parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk, +declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and +some of the neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. +On the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his +Graced was sworn a member of the privy council; and afterwards +used his interest and influence in raising a corps of infantry, +now the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT</span>, of which he +was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his +commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April +1701.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th September, 1689.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis</span> was educated in strict principles of +loyalty and attachment to monarchical government, and when +a youth he suffered in the royal cause during the usurpation +of Cromwell. Soon after the restoration he was nominated +captain of an independent company in garrison at Hull, of +which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) was appointed +governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of the +Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of +1674, Sir Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and +pikemen for the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, +and was engaged at the siege of Grave in the +autumn of that year. He also served at the siege of Maestricht +in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel in 1677; and in the +following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley in the command +of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the +battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and +ability, vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the +Prince of Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was +wounded. During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span> +in 1685, he accompanied his regiment to England; and in +1687 circumstances occurred which occasioned him to withdraw +from the Dutch service; but he preserved his attachment +to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of Orange. +In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he +served in Ireland under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He +served as brigadier-general under King William in 1690; +was at the battle of the Boyne; and at the siege of Limerick, +where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 he acquired +new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed +bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the +reduction of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, +and took possession of the town on the 26th of July, +with his own and two other regiments of foot. The rank of +major-general was conferred on this distinguished officer in +April, 1692, and he commanded a brigade under King William +in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. He acquired +additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; also +in the command of a brigade under King William during the +following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded +him with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious +conduct procured him the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, +by whom he was employed on important services. He +commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, in May, 1695; and +a division of the covering army was placed under his orders +during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign he +was appointed president of the general court-martial which +tried the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the +enemy, and sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. +He continued to serve in the Netherlands until the peace of +Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained the colonelcy of the Queen +Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in exchange with +Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the +British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been +charged with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, +he was tried by a court-martial and dismissed the service. +His reputation was thus unfortunately tarnished; but his +crime does not appear to have been considered of a heinous +nature, as he was subsequently elected a member of parliament +for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen Anne, in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span> +1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several particulars +respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in +June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He +died on the 14th of December, 1717.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th June, 1701.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn</span> served in the army of the United Provinces +of the Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., +and afterwards held a commission under the British crown. +In 1688 he was nominated captain and lieut.-colonel in the +second foot guards, with which corps he served in Flanders, +and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy of the +second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke. +He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen +on the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under +the eye of his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, +in the summer of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general during the siege. He subsequently commanded +a brigade of infantry in the Netherlands, under King +William III., who nominated him governor of the island of +Jamaica. He exchanged to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +in 1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on +the 10th June, 1702. He died in June, 1702.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 20th June, 1702.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, +<span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd</span> was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he proceeded +to the island of Jamaica; and in June, 1702, Queen Anne +promoted him to the colonelcy of the regiment. He served +in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general +in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span> +1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +in favour of his non.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Roger Handasyd.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 3rd April, 1712.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This Officer served many years in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment, and was promoted by Queen <ins class="corr" id="tn-52" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Anne to that'"> +Anne to the</ins> lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which he commanded some time at +the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his father in the colonelcy +of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the sixteenth +foot in 1730,—promoted to the rank of brigadier-general +in 1735,—to that of major-general in 1739,—and to lieut.-general +in 1743. He died in 1763.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Barrell.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 25th August, 1730.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; +he obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished +conduct in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the +brevet rank of colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 +he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; +in 1727 he was appointed brigadier-general; in 1730 he was +removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, and in 1734 to the +King's Own. In the following year he was promoted to the +rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of lieut.-general; and +he was also appointed governor of Pendennis Castle. He +died on the 9th of August, 1749.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1734.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair</span> entered the army in +the reign of Queen Anne, and served under the celebrated +<span class="smcap">John Duke of Marlborough</span>. He was several years an +officer in the third foot guards, in which corps he rose to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span> +commission of major, with the rank of colonel, and in 1734 +King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, from which he was removed, in +1737, to the first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted +to the rank of brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of +major-general; and to that of lieut.-general in 1745, at which +time he was performing the duty of quartermaster-general in the +Netherlands, to the army commanded by His Royal Highness +the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year he commanded +an expedition which was originally designed for the attack of +the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, and +afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and +the peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, +achieved. He was subsequently employed on an embassy to +the courts of Vienna and Turin.<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> On the decease of his +brother, in 1750, he became entitled to the dignity of Lord +Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he preferred a seat in the +House of Commons, of which he had been many years a +member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 +he was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, +in November, 1762.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Moyle.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 27th June, 1737.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Moyle</span> entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, +and served with reputation under the celebrated John Duke +of Marlborough; he rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly +raised regiment of foot, and in 1708 was promoted to the rank +of colonel in the army. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment +was disbanded. In 1723 King George I. conferred the +colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel Moyle, who +was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, and +to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. He died on the 3rd of +November, 1738.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Paget.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 13th December, 1738.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of King William +III., and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now +seventh dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the +celebrated John Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, +1710, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth +horse; he was afterwards lieut.-colonel of the first troop of +horse grenadier guards; and in July, 1732, was nominated +colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from which he was +removed, in 1738, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. In 1739 he was +promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the +28th of May, 1741.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 12th August, 1741.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell</span> was nominated ensign in a regiment of +foot on the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation +in the wars of King William III. and of Queen Anne. On +the 20th of December, 1722, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy +of the ninth foot, and he performed the duties of +commanding officer to that corps many years, with credit to +himself and advantage to the service. On the decease of +Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded +the long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell +with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. In +1746 Colonel O'Farrell was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, +and in 1754 to that of major-general. His decease +occurred in 1757.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 11th July, 1757.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore</span> entered the army in the reign of King +George II., and serving with distinction in the wars of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span> +Austrian succession, was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the +Thirty-sixth regiment on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed +the duty of commanding officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment +with reputation ten years; and in July, 1757, King George II. +rewarded him with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general in America +in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade +under Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the +descent on Cape Breton, and at the siege and capture of +Louisburg, of which fortress he was afterwards nominated +governor. On the 19th of February, 1761, he was promoted +to the rank of major-general. During the following winter +he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship +was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth, +and Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night, +fell overboard and was drowned.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 29th March, 1762.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage</span>, second son of Thomas, +first Viscount Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having +served some time in the subordinate commissions, was +appointed major of the Forty-fourth foot in February, 1747; +and he was further promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the +regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He was serving with +his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred between +Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the banks +of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the forces +sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to +command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi. +In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General +Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable +Thomas Gage was wounded. He continued to serve in +America, where he raised a provincial regiment, which was +numbered the eightieth, light-armed foot, of which he was +appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also appointed +brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the +army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued +to form part of the British dominions from that period. He<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span> +was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in +the same year he performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief +in North America, and also succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as +Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth regiment, which he held +two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst was re-appointed. +In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the +rank of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between +Great Britain and her North American colonies began to +assume a serious aspect, he was appointed Captain-General +and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay, and he arrived +at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced in the +following year, and his active exertions to suppress the rebellion +were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment +of Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned +in a few months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed +colonel of the seventeenth light dragoons; he was +promoted to the rank of general in November following, and +in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh dragoons. He +died in 1787.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th April, 1782.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara</span> was appointed cornet in the third dragoons +in December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant +and captain in the second foot guards. He served in +Portugal in 1762, and performed the duties of quartermaster-general +to the army under Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. +In 1769 he was promoted to the rank of captain and +lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment in North +America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the +rank of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot +guards under Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; +distinguished himself at the passage of the Catawba river on +the 1st of February, 1781; and was wounded at the battle +of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782 he was nominated +to the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment; was +removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was +advanced to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span> +the British troops at Toulon, and was wounded and +taken prisoner in an action with the French republican troops +on the 30th of November, 1793. His services were rewarded +with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar, and in 1798 +he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded that +he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and +enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and +accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st +of February, 1802.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">David Dundas.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 2nd April, 1791.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">David Dundas</span> was one of the most distinguished officers of +the age in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the +principles of military tactics. He commenced his military +education at the age of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, +and at fifteen he assisted in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he +obtained a commission in the Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 +he proceeded with the expedition to the coast of France as +an assistant quartermaster-general; and in the following year +obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised regiment +of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth, or +King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany +in 1760 and 1761; in the following summer he accompanied +an expedition to Cuba, as aide-de-camp to Major-General +Eliott, and was actively employed in the reduction of the +Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in his +regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged +by an ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every +branch of his profession, he obtained permission to proceed to +the Continent, to observe the practice of the French and +Austrian armies. In 1775 he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy +of the twelfth light dragoons, joined the regiment in Ireland +shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the appointment of +quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was +removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now +the fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the +Continent, attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span> +three summers, and after his return he presented His Majesty +with a detailed account of their evolutions.</p> + +<p>Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced, +in 1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military +movements, which became the basis of our army regulations +for field exercises and movements. His abilities obtained +for him the favour and attention of King George III., who +appointed him adjutant-general in Ireland, for the purpose of +introducing his system of tactics into the army of that country. +In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted to the rank of major-general. +In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish +staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in +service of actual warfare. After the commencement of +hostilities with the French republic, Major-General Dundas +was employed on a military mission to the island of Jersey, +and was subsequently sent to the Continent to confer with the +Duke of York respecting the siege of Dunkirk. From +Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded under +Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was +taken prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison. +His services there, although he was ultimately obliged to +evacuate the place, called forth the approbation of his Sovereign +and of the British nation. After abandoning Toulon, he +made a descent on Corsica, which island was reduced and +annexed to the British dominions; but shortly afterwards he +received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he arrived +in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry at +the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General +Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through +Holland, and the corps under his immediate command gained +considerable advantage over the enemy in two successive +actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly distinguished himself +also in an attack upon the French post at Thuyl, in December +of the same year. He continued with the British troops in +Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was +appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After +his return to England he was appointed quartermaster-general +to the army; and he composed the celebrated regulations +for the field exercises and movements for the cavalry, +which were approved by his Royal Highness the Duke of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span> +York, and by King George III., and ordered to be exclusively +adopted throughout the cavalry.</p> + +<p>In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of +the allied army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to +Holland; he distinguished himself in several actions with the +enemy, and was highly commended by His Royal Highness +in his public despatches. In 1801 he was appointed colonel +of the second, or Royal North British dragoons, and was constituted +governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was promoted +to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the +French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in +command of the troops in the southern district, which comprised +the counties of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was +appointed governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and +created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of March, 1809, +His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished +veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army, +on the resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the +Duke of York, which appointment he held until the 25th of +May, 1811, when His Royal Highness was re-appointed. +He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of the rifle brigade on +the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the colonelcy +of the King's dragoon guards on the <ins class="corr" id="tn-59" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '27th of Januuary'"> +27th of January</ins>, 1813. He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of +sixty years.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Crosbie.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 23rd December, 1795.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">After serving in the subordinate commissions, <span class="smcap">William +Crosbie</span> was nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth +regiment, on the 9th of May, 1769; and in October, +1778, he was promoted to the majority of the seventh Royal +Fusiliers, with which corps he served in the Carolinas; in +April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785, +he obtained the permission of King George III. for the +introduction of an order of merit in the corps, which under +his command obtained a high reputation for correct discipline.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span> +He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790; and in +1793 received a letter of service for raising the Eighty-ninth +regiment, of which he was appointed colonel. In 1794 he +was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed +to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment in 1795. He died on the +16th of June, 1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was +lieut.-governor at the time of his decease.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th June, 1798.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe</span>, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal +Navy, evinced great talent from his youth. It is recorded +that, when a boy, he was taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed +up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec; and he constructed a +chart of the river, which was given to Major-General Wolfe, +who sailed with an expedition against Quebec, in 1759. On +the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the +Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston, +in 1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment +in December, 1775, and served at Long Island and New +York in 1776, and in the expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777, +when he distinguished himself at the battle of Brandywine, +and was wounded. In October of the same year, he was +placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The Queen's +Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted +to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services +with this corps are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry +Clinton, in a letter to Lord George Germaine, in the following +terms:—"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe has been at the head of a +battalion since October, 1777, and since that time he has +been perpetually with the advance of the army. The history +of the corps under his command is a series of gallant, +skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without +a single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or +taken, twice their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself +has been thrice wounded; and I do not scruple to assert, +that his successes have been no less the fruit of the most extensive +knowledge of his profession which study and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span> +experience within his reach could give him, than of the +most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly +distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina, +and Virginia, he was included in the capitulation of York +Town, and returned to England in a state of debility from +excessive exertion, &c. In 1790 he was promoted to the +rank of colonel, and in the following year raised a corps of +infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he was appointed +colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently +proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the +same talent, energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously +in the American war. In 1794 he was promoted to the rank +of major-general, and in 1796 to the local rank of lieut.-general +in the island of St. Domingo. In January, 1798, he +was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment, and was +removed, in June following, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in +1806.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir James H. Craig, K.B.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1806.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">James Henry Craig</span> was appointed ensign in the thirtieth +foot, in 1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in +1771 he was promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, +with which corps he served several campaigns in +America; and in 1777 he was promoted to the majority, and +in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of the Eighty-second regiment, +from which he was removed, in 1783, to the sixteenth. He +was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and to that of +major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the +colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to +the rank of lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth +in 1804. He commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, +in 1805, with the local rank of general, and the +dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops under his orders +landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession of the +island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor +of Upper and Lower Canada, with the local rank of general<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span> +in America; in 1809 he was removed to the Seventy-eighth +Highlanders. He was also appointed governor of Blackness +Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Edward Finch.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th September, 1809.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">In 1778 the <span class="smcap">Honorable Edward Finch</span> was appointed +cornet in the eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was +promoted to a lieutenancy in the Eighty-seventh foot. He +embarked for the West Indies, in January, 1780, and served +there, and in North America, until 1782, when he returned +to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain in the +second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain and +lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns +of 1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness +the Duke of York, and shared in the several actions in which +the foot guards distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was +promoted to the rank of colonel, and in 1799 he commanded +the first battalion of his regiment in the expedition to Holland, +where he served in several actions under Lieut.-General Sir +Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness the Duke of +York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the +expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, +and was promoted to the rank of major-general, in +January, 1801. After commanding the light cavalry in +Egypt some time, he was placed at the head of a brigade of +infantry, and was honored with the Order of the Crescent +from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of +foot guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in +1807 he commanded a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. +In 1808 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and +appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth regiment, and in 1809 he +was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. He was promoted to +the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the +27th of October, 1843.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 21st November, 1843.</em></p> + +<p>The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her +Majesty to the Colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment.</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND!</span></p> + +<p> Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me +at your head, and I shall end my military career wearing the +uniform of the Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory, +and well I know it will increase, when you have again an opportunity +to use your Arms! Never were the Musket and +Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor were the Royal Colours +of England ever confided to more intrepid Soldiers!</p> + +<p>"Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments +that they had formerly commanded, and with whose +glory their own fame is associated; but old Comrades have +passed away,—to the new men, they are strangers,—and +nought remains to bind them to their Regiments, but Memory +and Renown! My good fortune has been greater, for +while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old +Corps, the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, placed among men at whose head I have +so lately fought, and to whose valour I owe so much!!</p> + +<p>"Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as <em>pseudo</em> Philosophers +pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive +us not of Manly sentiments. I shall always have the strongest +attachment to the corps with whom I have served, and among +the honors won for me by the Army of Scinde, the greatest +is that of being your Colonel!!</p> + +<p class="right"> +(Signed) "<span class="pad4 smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br /> +"<em>Colonel 22nd Regiment</em>.</p> + +<p>"<em>Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844.</em>"</p> +</div> + +<p class="p1">The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> +Colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment, was in the <em>Duke +of Wellington's own hand-writing</em>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p>"P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty, +principally on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you, +as this was the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India +engaged in the two glorious battles fought at <em>Meeanee</em> and +<em>Hyderabad</em>, in <em>Scinde</em>; and Her Majesty was graciously +pleased to approve of the recommendation on that ground."</p> +</div> + + +<p class="p4" /> +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p class="p4 pfs70">LONDON:</p> + +<p class="pfs70"> +Printed by <span class="smcap">William Clowes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sons</span>, Stamford Street,<br /> +For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair, +during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to Vienna +and Turin.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<div class="transnote pg-brk"> +<a name="TN" id="TN"></a> +<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> + +<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been +corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within +the text and consultation of external sources.</p> + +<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, +and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.<br /> +<br /> +<a href="#tn-xxix">Pg xxix</a>: 'thence to Portmouth' replaced by 'thence to Portsmouth'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-34">Pg 34</a>: 'a deperate dash' replaced by 'a desperate dash'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-41">Pg 41</a>: 'stanch and true' replaced by 'staunch and true'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-45">Pg 45</a>: 'until its recal' replaced by 'until its recall'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-52">Pg 52</a>: 'Anne to that' replaced by 'Anne to the'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-59">Pg 59</a>: '27th of Januuary' replaced by '27th of January'.<br /> +</p> +</div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 64581 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/old/64581-0.txt b/old/64581-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f0bcc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/64581-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3896 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook of Historical record of the Twenty-second, or +the Cheshire Regiment of Foot, by Richard Cannon + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and +most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. 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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment + of Foot + containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, + and of its subsequent services to 1849 + +Author: Richard Cannon + +Release Date: February 17, 2021 [eBook #64581] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: Brian Coe, John Campbell and the Online Distributed + Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was + produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital + Library.) + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE +TWENTY-SECOND, OR THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT *** + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. + + Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been + placed at the end of each major section. + + A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example S^t or Esq^{re}. + + Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. + + + + +[Illustration: + + BY COMMAND OF His late Majesty WILLIAM THE IV^{TH}. + _and under the Patronage of_ + Her Majesty the Queen. + + HISTORICAL RECORDS, + _OF THE_ + British Army + + _Comprising the_ + _History of every Regiment_ + _IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE_. + + _By Richard Cannon Esq^{re}._ + + _Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards._ + + London. + + _Printed by Authority._] + + + + + HISTORICAL RECORD + + OF + + THE TWENTY-SECOND, + + OR + + THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + CONTAINING + + AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT + IN 1689, + + AND OF ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES + TO 1849. + + COMPILED BY + + RICHARD CANNON, ESQ., + + ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS. + + ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. + + LONDON: + PARKER, FURNIVALL, & PARKER, + 30, CHARING-CROSS. + + MDCCCXLIX. + + + + +GENERAL ORDERS. + + + _HORSE-GUARDS_, + _1st January, 1836_. + +His Majesty has been pleased to command that, with the view of doing +the fullest justice to Regiments, as well as to Individuals who have +distinguished themselves by their Bravery in Action with the Enemy, +an Account of the Services of every Regiment in the British Army +shall be published under the superintendence and direction of the +Adjutant-General; and that this Account shall contain the following +particulars, viz.:-- + + ---- The Period and Circumstances of the Original Formation of + the Regiment; The Stations at which it has been from time to time + employed; The Battles, Sieges, and other Military Operations in + which it has been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement + it may have performed, and the Colours, Trophies, &c., it may have + captured from the Enemy. + + ---- The Names of the Officers, and the number of Non-Commissioned + Officers and Privates Killed or Wounded by the Enemy, specifying + the place and Date of the Action. + + ---- The Names of those Officers who, in consideration of their + Gallant Services and Meritorious Conduct in Engagements with the + Enemy, have been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other Marks + of His Majesty's gracious favour. + + ---- The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and + Privates, as may have specially signalized themselves in Action. + + And, + + ---- The Badges and Devices which the Regiment may have been + permitted to bear, and the Causes on account of which such Badges + or Devices, or any other Marks of Distinction, have been granted. + + By Command of the Right Honorable + GENERAL LORD HILL, + _Commanding-in-Chief_. + + JOHN MACDONALD, + _Adjutant-General_. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend +upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are +animated, and consequently it is of the highest importance that any +measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, by which alone +great and gallant actions are achieved, should be adopted. + +Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment of this desirable +object than a full display of the noble deeds with which the Military +History of our country abounds. To hold forth these bright examples +to the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to incite him to +emulate the meritorious conduct of those who have preceded him in +their honorable career, are among the motives that have given rise to +the present publication. + +The operations of the British Troops are, indeed, announced in the +"London Gazette," from whence they are transferred into the public +prints: the achievements of our armies are thus made known at the +time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute of praise and +admiration to which they are entitled. On extraordinary occasions, +the Houses of Parliament have been in the habit of conferring on the +Commanders, and the Officers and Troops acting under their orders, +expressions of approbation and of thanks for their skill and bravery; +and these testimonials, confirmed by the high honour of their +Sovereign's approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier most +highly prizes. + +It has not, however, until late years, been the practice (which +appears to have long prevailed in some of the Continental armies) +for British Regiments to keep regular records of their services +and achievements. Hence some difficulty has been experienced in +obtaining, particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic account +of their origin and subsequent services. + +This defect will now be remedied, in consequence of His Majesty +having been pleased to command that every Regiment shall, in future, +keep a full and ample record of its services at home and abroad. + +From the materials thus collected, the country will henceforth +derive information as to the difficulties and privations which +chequer the career of those who embrace the military profession. In +Great Britain, where so large a number of persons are devoted to +the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and +where these pursuits have, for so long a period, being undisturbed +by the _presence of war_, which few other countries have escaped, +comparatively little is known of the vicissitudes of active service +and of the casualties of climate, to which, even during peace, the +British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or +no interval of repose. + +In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which the country +derives from the industry and the enterprise of the agriculturist +and the trader, its happy inhabitants may be supposed not often to +reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,--on +their sufferings,--and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so +many national benefits are obtained and preserved. + +The conduct of the British Troops, their valour, and endurance, +have shone conspicuously under great and trying difficulties; and +their character has been established in Continental warfare by the +irresistible spirit with which they have effected debarkations in +spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the gallantry and +steadiness with which they have maintained their advantages against +superior numbers. + +In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, ample +justice has generally been done to the gallant exertions of the +Corps employed; but the details of their services and of acts of +individual bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the +various Regiments. + +These Records are now preparing for publication, under his Majesty's +special authority, by Mr. RICHARD CANNON, Principal Clerk of the +Adjutant General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot fail +to be useful and interesting to military men of every rank, it is +considered that they will also afford entertainment and information +to the general reader, particularly to those who may have served in +the Army, or who have relatives in the Service. + +There exists in the breasts of most of those who have served, or +are serving, in the Army, an _Esprit de Corps_--an attachment to +everything belonging to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative +of the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove interesting. +Authentic accounts of the actions of the great, the valiant, the +loyal, have always been of paramount interest with a brave and +civilized people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes who, +in moments of danger and terror, have stood "firm as the rocks +of their native shore:" and when half the world has been arrayed +against them, they have fought the battles of their Country with +unshaken fortitude. It is presumed that a record of achievements in +war,--victories so complete and surprising, gained by our countrymen, +our brothers, our fellow citizens in arms,--a record which revives +the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant deeds before +us,--will certainly prove acceptable to the public. + +Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other distinguished Officers +will be introduced in the Records of their respective Regiments, +and the Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to time, been +conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying the value and importance +of its services, will be faithfully set forth. + +As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record of each Regiment will +be printed in a distinct number, so that when the whole shall be +completed, the Parts may be bound up in numerical succession. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + +TO + +THE INFANTRY. + + +The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for +innate courage and unshaken firmness, and the national superiority +of the British troops over those of other countries has been evinced +in the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains so +many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery, that no doubts can +be raised upon the facts which are recorded. It must therefore be +admitted, that the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is +INTREPIDITY. This quality was evinced by the inhabitants of England +when their country was invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army, +on which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into the sea to +attack the Roman soldiers as they descended from their ships; and, +although their discipline and arms were inferior to those of their +adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing intimidated the +flower of the Roman troops, including Cæsar's favourite tenth legion. +Their arms consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons of +rude construction. They had chariots, to the axles of which were +fastened sharp pieces of iron resembling scythe-blades, and infantry +in long chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and fought on +foot, and for change of ground, pursuit or retreat, sprang into the +chariot and drove off with the speed of cavalry. These inventions +were, however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in the course +of time a military system, with discipline and subordination, was +introduced, and British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted to +the greatest advantage; a full development of the national character +followed, and it shone forth in all its native brilliancy. + +The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted principally of +infantry: Thanes, and other men of property, however, fought on +horseback. The infantry were of two classes, heavy and light. The +former carried large shields armed with spikes, long broad swords and +spears; and the latter were armed with swords or spears only. They +had also men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and javelins. + +The feudal troops established by William the Conqueror consisted (as +already stated in the Introduction to the Cavalry) almost entirely +of horse; but when the warlike barons and knights, with their trains +of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion of men appeared +on foot, and, although these were of inferior degree, they proved +stout-hearted Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary troops +were employed, infantry always constituted a considerable portion of +the military force; and this _arme_ has since acquired, in every +quarter of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the armies of any +nation at any period. + +The weapons carried by the infantry, during the several reigns +succeeding the Conquest, were bows and arrows, half-pikes, lances, +halberds, various kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour +was worn on the head and body, and in course of time the practice +became general for military men to be so completely cased in steel, +that it was almost impossible to slay them. + +The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the destructive purposes +of war, in the early part of the fourteenth century, produced a +change in the arms and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and +arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but British archers +continued formidable adversaries; and, owing to the inconvenient +construction and imperfect bore of the fire-arms when first +introduced, a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow from +their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition to every army, +even as late as the sixteenth century. + +During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth each company +of infantry usually consisted of men armed five different ways; in +every hundred men forty were "_men-at-arms_," and sixty "_shot_;" the +"men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe men, and thirty +pikemen; and the "shot" were twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and +twenty harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his principal +weapon, a sword and dagger. + +Companies of infantry varied at this period in numbers from 150 +to 300 men; each company had a colour or ensign, and the mode of +formation recommended by an English military writer (Sir John Smithe) +in 1590 was:--the colour in the centre of the company guarded by the +halberdiers; the pikemen in equal proportions, on each flank of the +halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of the pikes; half +the archers on each flank of the musketeers, and the harquebusiers +(whose arms were much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal +proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.[1] It +was customary to unite a number of companies into one body, called +a REGIMENT, which frequently amounted to three thousand men: but +each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous improvements +were eventually introduced in the construction of fire-arms, and, +it having been found impossible to make armour proof against the +muskets then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without its +being too weighty for the soldier, armour was gradually laid aside by +the infantry in the seventeenth century: bows and arrows also fell +into disuse, and the infantry were reduced to two classes, viz.: +_musketeers_, armed with matchlock muskets, swords, and daggers; and +_pikemen_, armed with pikes from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and +swords. + +In the early part of the seventeenth century Gustavus Adolphus, King +of Sweden, reduced the strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused +the gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in flasks, or in +small wooden bandoliers, each containing a charge, to be made up +into cartridges, and carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment +into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division of pikemen. He +also adopted the practice of forming four regiments into a brigade; +and the number of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each +regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that his infantry could +resist the charge of the celebrated Polish horsemen and Austrian +cuirassiers; and his armies became the admiration of other nations. +His mode of formation was copied by the English, French, and other +European states; but so great was the prejudice in favour of ancient +customs, that all his improvements were not adopted until near a +century afterwards. + +In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service, styled the +Admiral's regiment. In 1678 each company of 100 men usually consisted +of 30 pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with light firelocks. +In this year the King added a company of men armed with hand grenades +to each of the old British regiments, which was designated the +"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived as to fit in the +muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets similar to those at present in +use were adopted about twenty years afterwards. + +An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by order of King James II., +to guard the artillery, and was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now +7th Foot). This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did not carry +pikes. + +King William III. incorporated the Admiral's regiment in the second +Foot Guards, and raised two Marine regiments for sea-service. +During the war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting +the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14 pikemen and 46 +musketeers; the captains carried pikes; lieutenants, partisans; +ensigns, half-pikes; and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697 +the Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again formed on the +breaking out of the war in 1702.[2] + +During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were laid aside, and every +infantry soldier was armed with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the +grenadiers ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades; +and the regiments were directed to lay aside their third colour: the +corps of Royal Artillery was first added to the Army in this reign. + +About the year 1745, the men of the battalion companies of infantry +ceased to carry swords; during the reign of George II. light +companies were added to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of +General Officers recommended that the grenadiers should lay aside +their swords, as that weapon had never been used during the Seven +Years' War. Since that period the arms of the infantry soldier have +been limited to the musket and bayonet. + +The arms and equipment of the British Troops have seldom differed +materially, since the Conquest, from those of other European states; +and in some respects the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed +to be inferior to that of the nations with whom they have had to +contend; yet, under this disadvantage, the bravery and superiority of +the British infantry have been evinced on very many and most trying +occasions, and splendid victories have been gained over very superior +numbers. + +Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like champions who have +dared to confront a host of foes, and have proved themselves valiant +with any arms. At _Crecy_, King Edward III., at the head of about +30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August, 1346, Philip King of +France, whose army is said to have amounted to 100,000 men; here +British valour encountered veterans of renown:--the King of Bohemia, +the King of Majorca, and many princes and nobles were slain, and +the French army was routed and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards, +Edward Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black Prince, +defeated, at _Poictiers_, with 14,000 men, a French army of 60,000 +horse, besides infantry, and took John I., King of France, and his +son Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415, King Henry +V., with an army of about 13,000 men, although greatly exhausted by +marches, privations, and sickness, defeated, at _Agincourt_, the +Constable of France, at the head of the flower of the French nobility +and an army said to amount to 60,000 men, and gained a complete +victory. + +During the seventy years' war between the United Provinces of the +Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy, which commenced in 1578 and +terminated in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the +States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable spirit and +firmness;[3] and in the thirty years' war between the Protestant +Princes and the Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the +service of Sweden and other states were celebrated for deeds of +heroism.[4] In the wars of Queen Anne, the fame of the British army +under the great MARLBOROUGH was spread throughout the world; and +if we glance at the achievements performed within the memory of +persons now living, there is abundant proof that the Britons of the +present age are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities +which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds of the brave men, +of whom there are many now surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801, +under the brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army, which had +been vainly styled _Invincible_, to evacuate that country; also the +services of the gallant Troops during the arduous campaigns in the +Peninsula, under the immortal WELLINGTON; and the determined stand +made by British Army at Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had +long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain, and had sought and +planned her destruction by every means he could devise, was compelled +to leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to place himself +at the disposal of the British Government These achievements, with +others of recent dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the +same valour and constancy which glowed in the breasts of the heroes +of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to +animate the Britons of the nineteenth century. + +The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust and muscular +frame,--intrepidity which no danger can appal,--unconquerable +spirit and resolution,--patience in fatigue and privation, and +cheerful obedience to his superiors. These qualities, united with +an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate and give +a skilful direction to the energies and adventurous spirit of the +hero, and a wise selection of officers of superior talent to command, +whose presence inspires confidence,--have been the leading causes +of the splendid victories gained by the British arms.[5] The fame +of the deeds of the past and present generations in the various +battle-fields where the robust sons of Albion have fought and +conquered, surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory; these +achievements will live in the page of history to the end of time. + +The records of the several regiments will be found to contain a +detail of facts of an interesting character, connected with the +hardships, sufferings, and gallant exploits of British soldiers in +the various parts of the world, where the calls of their Country and +the commands of their Sovereign have required them to proceed in the +execution of their duty, whether in active continental operations, +or in maintaining colonial territories in distant and unfavourable +climes. + +The superiority of the British infantry has been pre-eminently set +forth in the wars of six centuries, and admitted by the greatest +commanders which Europe has produced. The formations and movements of +this _arme_, as at present practised, while they are adapted to every +species of warfare, and to all probable situations and circumstances +of service, are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military +tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific principles. +Although the movements and evolutions have been copied from the +continental armies, yet various improvements have from time to time +been introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by which the +superiority of the national military character is maintained. The +rank and influence which Great Britain has attained among the nations +of the world, have in a great measure been purchased by the valour +of the Army, and to persons who have the welfare of their country +at heart, the records of the several regiments cannot fail to prove +interesting. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] A company of 200 men would appear thus:-- + + __| + | | + |__| + | + 20 20 20 30 2|0 30 20 20 20 + | + Harquebuses. Muskets. Halberds. Muskets. Harquebuses. + Archers. Pikes. Pikes. Archers. + +The musket carried a ball which weighed 1/10th of a pound; and the +harquebus a ball which weighed 1/25th of a pound. + +[2] The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps +in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of +Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under Admiral +Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and in its +subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at the +siege of Barcelona in 1705. + +[3] The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed +in 1590, observes:--"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation +would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the +field, let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the +Spanish infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe. +For instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the +Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or +Buffs. + +[4] _Vide_ the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of +Foot. + +[5] "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes +the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in +Egypt to that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but +His Majesty desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed +on the consideration of every part of the army, that it has been a +strict observance of order, discipline, and military system, which +has given the full energy to the native valour of the troops, and +has enabled them proudly to assert the superiority of the national +military character, in situations uncommonly arduous, and under +circumstances of peculiar difficulty."--_General Orders in 1801._ + +In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope +(afterwards Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the +successful result of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, +1809, it is stated:--"On no occasion has the undaunted valour of +British troops ever been more manifest. At the termination of a +severe and harassing march, rendered necessary by the superiority +which the enemy had acquired, and which had materially impaired the +efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages were to be encountered. +These have all been surmounted by the conduct of the troops +themselves; and the enemy has been taught, that whatever advantages +of position or of numbers he may possess, there is inherent in +the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not how to +yield,--that no circumstances can appal,--and that will ensure +victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human +means." + + + + + THE TWENTY-SECOND, + + OR + + THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT, + + BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR + + THE WORDS + + "SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD," + + IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY + IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE, + DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843; + + AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES + + OF MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD, + + FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY, + ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843. + + + + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + + + +CONTENTS + +OF THE + +HISTORICAL RECORD. + + + YEAR PAGE + + INTRODUCTION. + + 1689 Formation of the Regiment 1 + + ---- Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy - + + ---- Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment - + + ---- Stationed at Chester - + + ---- Embarked for Ireland - + + ---- Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus 2 + + ---- Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh - + + ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment, + appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to + the Duke of Norfolk - + + 1690 Engaged at the _Battle of the Boyne_ - + + ---- Reviewed by King William at _Finglass_ - + + ---- Advanced against Athlone - + + ---- Rejoined the Army - + + ---- Employed at the first siege of Limerick - + + ---- Proceeded into winter-quarters - + + ---- Engaged with the Rapparees - + + 1691 Proceeded with the Army against _Ballymore_ 3 + + 1691 Engaged in the Siege and Capture of _Athlone_ 3 + + ---- Engaged at the Battle of _Aghrim_ - + + ---- Engaged at the Capture of _Galway_ - + + ---- ------------------------ _Limerick_ 4 + + ---- Termination of the War in Ireland - + + 1695 Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders - + + 1696 Returned to England - + + 1697 Treaty of Peace concluded at _Ryswick_ - + + 1698 Re-embarked for Ireland 5 + + 1701 Appointment of Brigadier-General William + Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot, + with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis - + + 1702 Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King + William III - + + ---- Regiment embarked for Jamaica - + + ---- Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General + Selwyn, deceased - + + 1705 Establishment augmented by two companies - + + 1712 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to + the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father, + Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired 6 + + 1713 Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht - + + 1714 Regiment returned to England, leaving two + Independent Companies at Jamaica - + + 1715 Employed in recruiting its Establishment - + + 1718 Embarked for _Ireland_ - + + 1726 ------------ _Minorca_ - + + 1727 Detachment embarked for _Gibraltar_ to assist in + its Defence against the Spaniards - + + 1730 Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from + the Twenty-Eighth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd, + removed to the Sixteenth Regiment - + + 1734 Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to + the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel William + Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot 7 + + 1737 Appointment of Major-General John Moyle, + from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel Hon. James + St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment + of Foot - + + 1738 Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the + Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General + Moyle, deceased - + + 1741 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, + from the Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in + succession to Colonel Paget, deceased - + + 1748 Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle - + + 1749 Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to + Ireland - + + 1751 Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating + the Clothing, Colours, Numbers, + Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of + the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry - + + 1756 War declared against France - + + ---- Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America - + + 1757 Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore + from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Major-General + O'Farrell, deceased 8 + + 1758 Engaged in the siege of _Louisburg_, and the + Capture of the Island of _Cape Breton_ - + + 1759 The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the + Louisburg Grenadiers,--Engaged at the Battle + of Quebec 9 + + 1760 Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to + _Quebec_, and advanced to _Montreal_ - + + ---- Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas - + + 1761 Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the + _West Indies_ 9 + + ---- Engaged in the capture of the Island of _Dominica_ 10 + + 1762 Engaged in the Capture of _Martinique_, _Grenada_, + _St. Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_ -- + + ---- Embarked with the expedition against the + _Havannah_ -- + + ---- Storming and Capture of _Fort Moro_ 11 + + ---- Appointment of Major-General Honorable + Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea -- + + 1763 Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau -- + + ---- The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange + for the Province of Florida, in South America -- + + ---- Regiment proceeded to West Florida -- + + 1765 Embarked for Great Britain -- + + 1773 Proceeded to Ireland -- + + 1775 Embarked for North America 12 + + ---- Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill -- + + 1776 Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia -- + + ---- Embarked for Staten Island, near New York -- + + ---- Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the + Americans at Brooklyn -- + + ---- Gained possession of New York, captured Fort + Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys 13 + + ---- Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode + Island -- + + 1778 The King of France having united with the + Americans, made preparations for the re-capture + of Rhode Island, but was compelled + to abandon the siege 14 + + 1779 The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to + vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded + to New York 15 + + 1782 Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the + Colonelcy, in succession to General the Honorable + Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons 15 + + ---- Regiment received instructions to assume the title of + _the Twenty-Second_, or _the Cheshire Regiment_ -- + + 1783 The American War having terminated, the regiment + embarked for England -- + + 1785 Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards + at the Castle -- + + ---- King George the III. authorized an _Order of Merit_ to + be instituted in the corps -- + + 1787 Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and thence to + Portsmouth 16 + + 1788 Proceeded to Chatham and Dover -- + + 1790 Embarked for Ireland -- + + 1791 Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the + Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Hara, + removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders 17 + + 1793 War commenced between Great Britain and France -- + + ---- Regiment embarked for the West Indies -- + + 1794 Capture of the Island of Martinique -- + + ---- ---- ---- St. Lucia -- + + ---- ---- ---- Guadaloupe -- + + ---- ---- ---- St. Domingo -- + + 1795 Returned to England from St. Domingo 18 + + ---- Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the + Eighty-Ninth Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light + Dragoons -- + + 1798 Proceeded to Guernsey -- + + 1798 Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the + Eighty-First Regiment, to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General Crosbie, deceased 18 + + 1799 Removed to Portsmouth 19 + + ---- Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being + sent to the Cape of Good Hope, preparatory to being + embarked for service in the East Indies -- + + 1800 Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope -- + + 1802 Proceeded to India 20 + + 1803 Arrival at Calcutta -- + + ---- The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force + assembled for the attack of the province of Cuttack -- + + ---- Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of + Barrabatta by storm -- + + 1804 Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege + of Bhurtpore 21 + + 1805 Marched from _Fort William_ and encamped at _Benares_, + thence proceeded to _Cawnpore_ -- + + ---- Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies + distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks -- + + ---- _Rajah Sing_ submitted and concluded a treaty of peace 22 + + ---- British army withdrew from Bhurtpore -- + + ---- The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore -- + + ---- _Holkar_ and _Scindia_ concluded Treaties of Peace -- + + 1806 Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to _Delhi_ -- + + ---- Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the + Governor-General in Council and of General Lord Lake, + Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war -- + + 1806 Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, + K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased 22 + + 1807 Proceeded to Berhampore -- + + 1809 Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch + to the Colonelcy, in succession to General Sir James + Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders -- + + 1810 Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the + expedition against the Mauritius -- + + ---- Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius 23 + + 1811 Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of + Madagascar -- + + 1812 Proceeded to Bourbon -- + + 1813 Removed a second time to the Mauritius -- + + 1814 A second Battalion added to the establishment of the + regiment, which was reduced in the same year -- + + 1815 The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the + Mauritius from Hindoostan 24 + + 1819 Embarked for England from the Mauritius -- + + ---- Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton 25 + + 1821 Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland -- + + 1822 Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men + assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork. The officers + commanding this detachment received the thanks of + H. R. H. the Duke of York, and were presented with a + silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the + Town of Newmarket, for attacking and defeating this + body of insurgents -- + + 1826 Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies + preparatory to embarkation for foreign service 26 + + ---- Service Companies embarked for Jamaica -- + + 1830 Depôt Companies embarked for England 27 + + 1831 Service Companies employed in suppressing an + insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica -- + + 1836 Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland -- + + 1837 Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland, + and rejoined by the Depôt Companies -- + + 1840 Embarked from Ireland for England -- + + 1841 Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah 28 + + 1842 Proceeded to _Scinde_, and encamped at Kurrachee -- + + 1843 Employed in the destruction of the Fort of _Emaum Ghur_ -- + + ---- The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described + by Major-General William E. P. Napier 29 + + ---- The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr 30 + + ---- Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde -- + + ---- Treacherous attack upon the British residency at + _Hyderabad_, and gallant defence made by the _Light + Company_ of the _Twenty-Second_ regiment -- + + ---- Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir + Charles Napier 31 + + ---- Battle of Meeanee -- + + ---- Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle -- + + ---- British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad 32 + + ---- Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee -- + + ---- Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment 34 + + ---- Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed 36 + + ---- Battle of Hyderabad -- + + ---- Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert 37 + + ---- Particulars of the march of the British troops through + the desert -- + + 1843 Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and + by the British Parliament, on the Twenty-second + regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde 38 + + ---- Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops + in distributing the medals conferred on them for their + gallantry in this campaign 40 + + ---- Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee 42 + + ---- Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir + Charles Napier's order on the occasion 43 + + ---- Embarked for Bombay -- + + ---- Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay -- + + ---- Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the + Colonelcy, in succession to General Honorable E. Finch, + deceased 44 + + 1844 Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts -- + + ---- Capture of Forts _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_ -- + + ---- Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district 45 + + ---- Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh -- + + 1845 Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts -- + + ---- Returned to Poonah -- + + 1846 Marched to Bombay 46 + + 1847 Removed to Poonah -- + + 1849 Proceeded to Bombay -- + + ---- Conclusion -- + + + Description of the Standards captured at the battles of + Meeanee and Hyderabad, and of the Medal conferred in + honor of the victories obtained at those places 47 + + + + +SUCCESSION OF COLONELS + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + + YEAR PAGE + + 1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk 48 + + ---- Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt. 49 + + 1701 William Selwyn 51 + + 1702 Thomas Handasyd -- + + 1712 Roger Handasyd 52 + + 1730 William Barrell -- + + 1734 _Hon._ James St. Clair -- + + 1737 John Moyle 53 + + 1738 Thomas Paget 54 + + 1741 Richard O'Farrell -- + + 1757 Edward Whitmore -- + + 1762 _Hon._ Thomas Gage 55 + + 1782 Charles O'Hara 56 + + 1791 David Dundas 57 + + 1795 William Crosbie 59 + + 1798 John Graves Simcoe 60 + + 1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B. 61 + + 1809 _Hon._ Edward Finch 62 + + 1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. 63 + + +PLATES. + + Colours of the Regiment _to face_ 1 + + Costume of the Regiment 32 + + Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the + Battle of Meeanee in 1843; and of the Silver + Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged + in the Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad 47 + + +[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + +QUEEN'S COLOUR. + +REGIMENTAL COLOUR. + +FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS. + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand_] + + + + +HISTORICAL RECORD + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + +[Sidenote: 1689] + +The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in February, +1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations of security to the +civil and religious institutions of the country, and of prosperity +in every branch of national industry; but in Ireland the majority +of the people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and a +body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance of that +country from the power of King James, who had landed there with +an armament from France. On this occasion HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, +evinced zeal for the principles of the Revolution, and raised a +regiment of pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers +was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of his Grace +now bears the title of the TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF +FOOT. + +Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped, and disciplined, +the regiment was encamped near Chester in the early part of August, +and soon afterwards embarked for Ireland, with the forces commanded +by Marshal Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of +_Carrickfergus_ was commenced, and the garrison of that fortress was +forced to surrender in a few days. + +From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the army to Dundalk, +where the troops were encamped on low and wet ground, and suffered +much in their health. + +While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the Duke of Norfolk was +succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir Henry Bellasis, who had commanded +the Sixth regiment of foot when it was in the Dutch service. + +On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its march from Dundalk +for Armagh, for winter-quarters. + +[Sidenote: 1690] + +In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to serve at the +battle of the _Boyne_, under the eye of its Sovereign, who commanded +the army in Ireland in person; and on this occasion it took part in +forcing the passage of the river, and in gaining a decisive victory +over the army of King James on the 1st of July. + +Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin, the regiment +was reviewed by King William at Finglass, on the 8th of July, and +mustered six hundred and twenty-eight rank and file under arms. +It was afterwards detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against +Athlone; but that fortress was found better provided for a siege than +had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the army. + +The TWENTY-SECOND was one of the corps employed at the siege of +_Limerick_. Many things combined to prevent the capture of that +fortress until the following year, and when the siege was raised, +the regiment proceeded into winter-quarters, from whence it sent +out detachments, which had several rencounters with bands of armed +peasantry, called Rapparees. + +[Sidenote: 1691] + +On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army commanded by +Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards Earl of Athlone) on its march +for _Ballymore_, which fortress was speedily forced to surrender. + +From Ballymore, the regiment marched to _Athlone_, and had the honour +to take part in the siege of that fortress, which was captured by +storm on the 1st of July. The grenadier company of the regiment +formed part of the storming party, which forded the river Shannon +under a heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry. The +capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid achievements which +have exalted the reputation of the British arms, and its reduction +proved a presage of additional triumphs. + +Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone, General St. Ruth +retreated, with the French and Irish army under his orders, to a +position at _Aghrim_, where he was attacked on the 12th of July. On +this occasion, the regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by +its Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it contributed +towards the complete overthrow of the army of King James, which was +driven from the field with severe loss, including its commander, +General St. Ruth, who was killed by a cannon-ball. + +The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers killed; one +Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded. + +On the 19th of July the army approached _Galway_; after sunset six +regiments of foot and four squadrons of horse and dragoons passed the +river by pontoons, and on the following morning they captured some +outworks. On the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General +Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway, and he took +possession of the town with the TWENTY-SECOND and two other regiments +of foot. + +The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege and capitulation +of _Limerick_, which city was surrendered in September, and completed +the deliverance of Ireland from the power of King James. + +[Sidenote: 1692] + +[Sidenote: 1695] + +After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed in garrison +and other duties of home-service, until 1695, when it proceeded to +the Netherlands, to reinforce the army commanded by King William +III., who was engaged in war for the preservation of the liberties of +Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of France. After landing at +Ostend, the regiment was placed in garrison. + +[Sidenote: 1696] + +Some advantages had been gained over the French arms; to counteract +which, Louis XIV. attempted to weaken the confederates by forming +plans for causing England to become the theatre of civil war. With +this view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in the +French service were sent to England in disguise, to instigate the +adherents of King James to take arms; a plot was also formed for +the assassination of King William, and a French army marched to +the coast to be in readiness to embark for England. Under these +circumstances the TWENTY-SECOND regiment and a number of other corps +were ordered to return to England, where they arrived in March, 1696, +and the TWENTY-SECOND landed at Gravesend. The conspirators for the +assassination of King William were discovered; several persons were +apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the French ports, +and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated. + +[Sidenote: 1697] + +In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded at Ryswick, +and the British Monarch saw his efforts for the civil and religious +liberties of Europe attended with success. + +[Sidenote: 1698] + +[Sidenote: 1700] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was afterwards sent to Ireland, where it +was stationed during the remainder of the reign of King William III. + +[Sidenote: 1701] + +On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment was +conferred on Brigadier-General William Selwyn, in succession to +Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis, who was removed to the Second +foot, then styled the Queen Dowager's regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1702] + +King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded by Queen +Anne, who declared war against France. Brigadier-General Selwyn +was nominated Governor of Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of +Major-General on the 10th of June, 1702. The TWENTY-SECOND regiment +was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other corps also +embarked for stations in the West Indies: the British government +designing to make a general attack on the possessions of France and +Spain in South America. + +Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded in the +colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel, Thomas Handasyd, by +commission dated the 20th of June, 1702. + +[Sidenote: 1703] + +A considerable body of troops arrived in the West Indies in 1703: but +they were afterwards recalled to take part in the war in Europe. The +TWENTY-SECOND regiment was left at the island of Jamaica, and during +the reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in protecting +Jamaica, and the other British settlements in the West Indies, which +important duty it performed with reputation. + +[Sidenote: 1704] + +[Sidenote: 1705] + +While employed on this duty, the regiment received drafts from +several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation of two companies was +made to its establishment. + +[Sidenote: 1712] + +Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General in +December, 1705, and to that of Major-General in January, 1710. In +1712 he retired from the colonelcy, resigning his commission in +favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd, of the regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1713] + +[Sidenote: 1714] + +In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace to Europe; +and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was issued for the men of the +regiment fit for duty to be formed into two independent companies for +service at Jamaica: the officers and staff returning to Europe to +recruit. + +The two independent companies thus formed from the TWENTY-SECOND +were the nucleus of the FORTY-NINTH regiment, which was formed of +independent companies at Jamaica in 1743. + +[Sidenote: 1715] + +[Sidenote: 1718] + +The officers and the serjeants not required for the independent +companies, having arrived in England, were actively employed in +recruiting in 1715; and in 1718 the regiment proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1719] + +[Sidenote: 1726] + +The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight years from +1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned year, it +proceeded to the island of Minorca, which had been captured by the +English, in 1708, and was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of +Utrecht in 1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar. + +[Sidenote: 1727] + +In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged _Gibraltar_, and a +detachment of the regiment, being sent to reinforce the garrison, had +the honor to take part in the successful defence of that important +fortress. When the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment +rejoined the regiment at Minorca. + +[Sidenote: 1730] + +Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with reputation until 1730, +when he was removed to the Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by +Brigadier-General William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1734] + +Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth foot in 1734, +when King George II. conferred the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment on Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the +First foot-guards. + +[Sidenote: 1737] + +On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable James St. Clair was +removed to the First, the Royal regiment of foot, and his Majesty +nominated Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1738] + +Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November, 1738, and the +colonelcy was afterwards conferred on Colonel Thomas Paget, from the +Thirty-second regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1739] + +[Sidenote: 1741] + +In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. +He died on the 28th of May, 1741, and was succeeded in the colonelcy +of the regiment by Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth +foot. + +[Sidenote: 1748] + +[Sidenote: 1749] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment was employed in the protection of the +island of Minorca, during the whole of the War of the Austrian +Succession, and, peace having been concluded, it was relieved from +that duty in 1749, and proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1751] + +In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and distinctions of +the several regiments of the army, dated the 1st of July, 1751, the +facings of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment were directed to be of _pale +buff_. The First, or King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second, +or Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in the +upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number of the Rank of +the regiment, in gold Roman characters, within a wreath of roses and +thistles on the same stalk. + +[Sidenote: 1755] + +[Sidenote: 1756] + +The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755 by the +aggressions of the French on the British territory in North America; +and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was declared against France; in the +same year the TWENTY-SECOND regiment embarked from Ireland for North +America. + +[Sidenote: 1757] + +In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the Forty-third, +Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the Sixtieth, under +Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with the view of being employed in +the attack of _Louisburg_, the capital of the French island of _Cape +Breton_, situate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was +deferred until the following year, and the regiment was stationed in +Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General O'Farrell died in the +summer of this year, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred +on Brigadier-General Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of +the Thirty-sixth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1758] + +Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the command of +Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the regiment proceeded with the +expedition commanded by Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, +and a landing was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the +8th of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry. The +TWENTY-SECOND had Lieutenants Pierce Butler, John Jermyn, and William +Hamilton wounded; also several private soldiers killed and wounded.[6] + +The siege of _Louisburg_, the capital of the island, was afterwards +commenced; and in carrying on the approaches the troops underwent +great fatigue with cheerful alacrity. By their perseverance, and +the co-operation of the fleet, the town was taken in July, and two +other islands in the Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the +thanks of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for their +conduct on this occasion. + +[Sidenote: 1759] + +During the year 1759 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment was stationed at +Louisburg. Major-General James Wolfe proceeded up the river St. +Lawrence, with a small armament,[7] and Quebec was captured; but the +nation sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was killed in +the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front of Quebec, on the 13th +of September, 1759. + +[Sidenote: 1760] + +In the spring of 1760 the TWENTY-SECOND and Fortieth regiments +proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel Lord Rollo, of the +TWENTY-SECOND, up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they +advanced upon _Montreal_, with the troops under Brigadier-General +the Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in Canada were +invaded at three points, and the Governor concentrated his forces at +Montreal; but he was unable to withstand the valour and discipline of +British troops, commanded by officers of talent and experience; he +therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada, the French +battalions becoming prisoners of war. The TWENTY-SECOND had thus the +honor of taking part in the conquest of the two fine provinces of +Upper and Lower Canada, which have since continued to form part of +the possessions of the British Crown. + +[Sidenote: 1761] + +After the conquest of Canada, the TWENTY-SECOND were removed to +Albany, from whence they proceeded to New York, in April, 1761, and +afterwards embarked, under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies. + +The island of _Dominica_ had been declared neutral; but it was found +to be so much under the influence of France, and proved a refuge +to so many privateers of that nation, that the British government +resolved to take possession of it. The TWENTY-SECOND, and other corps +under Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June, under +cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove the enemy from his +batteries: the grenadiers of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment distinguished +themselves on this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to +submission with little loss. + +[Sidenote: 1762] + +From Dominica the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded to Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, +and joined the troops assembled at that place under the orders of +Major-General the Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the +French island of _Martinique_. After several attempts on other parts +of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des Navières Bay, on the +16th of January, 1762; the works on the heights of _Morne Tortenson_ +were captured on the 24th of that month; _Morne Garnier_ was carried +on the 27th; and the citadel of _Fort Royal_ surrendered on the 4th +of February. These successes were followed by the surrender of the +opulent city of St. Pierre, and the submission of the whole island +to the British Crown. The Commander of the expedition stated in his +despatch--"I cannot find words to render that ample justice which is +due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have had the honor +to command. The difficulties they had to encounter in the attack of +an enemy possessed of every advantage of art and nature were great; +and their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles, furnishes a +noble example of British spirit." + +The capture of Martinique was followed by that of _Grenada_, _St. +Lucia_, and _St. Vincent_; and the acquisition of these islands +gave additional honor to the expedition of which the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment formed part. + +Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, mustering six hundred and two rank and file, under +the command of Major Loftus, joined the expedition commanded by +General the Earl of Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and +important Spanish city of the _Havannah_, in the island of Cuba The +TWENTY-SECOND, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five companies of the +Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under Brigadier-General Lord Rollo. + +Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament arrived +within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th of June. A landing +was effected on the following day, and the _Moro_ fort, being the +key-position of the extensive works which covered the town, was +besieged. This proved an undertaking of great difficulty; but every +obstacle was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea +forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of July. An +extensive series of batteries was prepared, and opened, on the 11th +of August, so well-directed a fire on the works which protected the +town, that the guns of the garrison were soon silenced, and the +important city of the Havannah was surrendered to the British arms. +Nine Spanish men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the +stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour. + +In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who was drowned at +sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by Major-General the Honorable +Thomas Gage, from the Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which +was raised in 1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau. + +[Sidenote: 1763] + +At the peace of Fontainebleau the _Havannah_ was restored to Spain, +in exchange for the province of Florida, on the continent of America; +and in 1763 the TWENTY-SECOND regiment proceeded to _West Florida_. + +[Sidenote: 1764] + +[Sidenote: 1765] + +The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year 1764, and in +1765 it was relieved from duty in that province, and embarked for +Great Britain. + +[Sidenote: 1766] + +[Sidenote: 1770] + +[Sidenote: 1772] + +[Sidenote: 1773] + +From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at various stations in +England; during the years 1770, 1771, and 1772, it performed duty in +Scotland; and in 1773 it proceeded to Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1775] + +While the TWENTY-SECOND were stationed in Ireland the +misunderstanding between the English government and the British +provinces in North America, on the subject of taxation, was followed +by hostilities. The regiment embarked from Ireland for North America +in 1775, and joined the troops at Boston under General Gage. + +During the night of the 16th of June the Americans commenced +fortifying the heights on the peninsula of Charlestown, called +_Bunker's Hill_; and on the following day they were attacked by the +flank companies of the British corps, and by a few regiments, and +driven from their works. The TWENTY-SECOND lost their commanding +officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who died of his wounds. He +was succeeded by Major James Campbell. + +[Sidenote: 1776] + +General Sir William Howe assumed the command of the British troops in +North America, on General Gage returning to England in October, 1775; +in March, 1776, Boston was vacated, when the TWENTY-SECOND proceeded +to Nova Scotia. + +From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition to Staten +Island, near New York; and, additional troops having arrived from +Europe, it was formed in brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth, +and Sixty-third, under Brigadier-General Francis Smith. + +A landing was effected on _Long Island_ on the 22nd of August; and +on the 27th of that month the TWENTY-SECOND were engaged in driving +the Americans from their positions at _Flat Bush_ to their fortified +lines at _Brooklyn_. The flank companies had several men killed and +wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion companies was +limited to two men. + +The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and passed the +river to New York. They were followed by the British, who gained +possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced a great +part of the Jerseys. + +During the winter the regiment was detached, with several other +corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and Earl Percy, against _Rhode +Island_. The regiment embarked on this service in the beginning of +December, and a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that +month, the island was speedily reduced to submission. + +[Sidenote: 1777] + +During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in Rhode Island. +On the 10th of July the American Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode +Island with a few active men, surprised Major-General Richard +Prescott in his quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner. + +[Sidenote: 1778] + +In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General Sullivan had +taken the command of the American troops at Providence, with the +view of making a descent on Rhode Island; and on the night of the +24th of May the battalion companies of the TWENTY-SECOND, the flank +companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians, embarked +under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the TWENTY-SECOND, to attack the +enemy's quarters. After landing three miles below _Warren_, early +on the following morning, a detachment under Captain Seir of the +TWENTY-SECOND destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a +Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another detachment +destroyed a number of boats, a galley of six twelve pounders, and two +sloops, in the Kickamuct River. The party then marched to Warren, +destroyed a park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer +sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further quantity of stores +was destroyed. The Americans assembled in great numbers, and fired on +the British from a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant +HAMILTON of the TWENTY-SECOND, eight British, and four Hessian +soldiers were wounded. + +On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major Eyre of the +Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to a creek near Taunton +River, and inflicted a severe loss on the Americans. + +The King of France having united with the Americans, a French +armament arrived off the coast, and formidable preparations were +made for the re-capture of Rhode Island. The French fleet, however, +sustained some severe losses from a storm, and from the English +navy. A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan landed +at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and commenced the siege +of _Newport_, in defence of which place the TWENTY-SECOND were +employed. The place being defended with great resolution, and +the Americans being disappointed of aid from the French fleet, +they raised the siege, and retired on the 29th of August. The +TWENTY-SECOND, Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth +and Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General Smith, by +the east road, to intercept the retreating enemy. A stand was made +by the Americans, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the +TWENTY-SECOND, under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished +themselves. The Americans were driven from _Quakers' Hill_, when they +fell back to their works at the north end of the island, from which +they afterwards withdrew. Major-General Pigot stated in his public +despatch,--"To these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add +Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the general tribute +due to the good conduct of every individual under his command, +has particularly distinguished Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL and the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, on whom, by their position, the greatest +weight of the action fell." The regiment had eleven rank and file +killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two +serjeants, and forty-eight rank and file wounded; one man missing. + +[Sidenote: 1779] + +The British Commander-in-Chief in North America, Lieut.-General Sir +Henry Clinton, having resolved to vacate Rhode Island, the regiment +embarked from thence on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to +New York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month. + +[Sidenote: 1780] + +During the remainder of the American War the regiment was stationed +at New York and the posts in advance of that city. + +[Sidenote: 1782] + +General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed to the Seventeenth +Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and King George III. conferred the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment on Major-General Charles +O'Hara, from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards. + +A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to the +regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be designated the +TWENTY-SECOND, or the CHESHIRE regiment, in order that a connexion +between the corps and that county should be cultivated, with the view +of promoting the success of the recruiting service. + +[Sidenote: 1783] + +The American War having terminated, the regiment returned to Europe +in 1783 and was stationed in South Britain. + +[Sidenote: 1785] + +In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor, under the +command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and furnished the usual guard +at the Castle, where his Majesty resided, an "ORDER OF MERIT" was +instituted in the corps, with the view of promoting good order and +discipline,--the field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time +being, to be members of the order. The order consisted of THREE +CLASSES: the first wore a silver medal gilt, suspended to a blue +riband two inches broad, and worn round the neck; the second a silver +medal, and the third a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates +for the third class must have served seven years with an unblemished +character; for the second, fourteen; and for the first, twenty-one +years. On the 1st of July, the KING was graciously pleased to accept +from Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie a medal of the first class of the +regimental ORDER OF MERIT: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment +being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on parade, with the +non-commissioned officers and soldiers selected to receive medals in +front, the rules of the order were read; the corps presented arms, +the band played "God save the King;" the members of the order took +off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each member with +his medal; the drums beating a point of war during the whole time. + +[Sidenote: 1787] + +In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and Jersey, where its +establishment was augmented; and it was ordered to be held in +readiness for foreign service, in consequence of some revolutionary +proceedings in Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to +Portsmouth, and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced. +Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of the +Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct. + +[Sidenote: 1788] + +On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the regiment received a +very flattering mark of the high estimation in which its conduct was +held by the inhabitants. + +[Sidenote: 1790] + +The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring of 1790, and +proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on the 5th of April. + +[Sidenote: 1791] + +Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the Seventy-fourth +Highlanders in April, 1791, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of +the Army in Ireland. + +[Sidenote: 1792] + +In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform, and the +establishment was augmented. + +[Sidenote: 1793] + +Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France, and the violent +conduct of the republican government in that country occasioned a +war between Great Britain and France, which commenced in 1793. In +September of that year the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose of taking part +in the capture of the French West India islands. They were followed +by the battalion companies in December. + +[Sidenote: 1794] + +The flank companies joined the armament under General Sir Charles +(afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing at three different +points on the island of _Martinique_, in February, 1794, and +accomplished in a short period the conquest of that valuable colony. + +The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness Prince Edward, +afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the light infantry under +Major-General Dundas, were engaged in the conquest of _St. Lucia_ in +the beginning of April. + +After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on _Guadaloupe_, +and that valuable island was speedily rescued from the power of the +republican government of France. + +The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique, where it was +joined by the flank companies. + +Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Lysaght, proceeded to +the island of _St. Domingo_, and formed part of the garrison of +Cape St. Nicholas Mole: and five companies joined the garrison of +_Busy-town_, which place was besieged by the enemy. + +In April, the TWENTY-SECOND, Twenty-third, and Forty-first +regiments, with some other troops, embarked under the command of +Brigadier-General John Whyte, for the attack of _Port-au-Prince_, the +capital of the French possessions in the island of _St. Domingo_. +A landing was effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting +occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND distinguished themselves: +_Fort Bizzotton_ was captured, and the enemy was forced to abandon +_Port-au-Prince_, which was taken possession of by the British +troops. The regiment had Captain Wallace killed on this occasion, +also several private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a +malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British lost forty +officers and six hundred soldiers by disease within two months after +the capture of the place. + +A detachment of the regiment formed part of the garrison of _Fort +Bizzotton_, which was attacked by two thousand of the enemy on +the 5th of December. The British defended their post with great +gallantry, and repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the +TWENTY-SECOND distinguished himself. + +Another portion of the regiment was stationed at Jeremie, and a +detachment at Irois. + +[Sidenote: 1795] + +Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St. Domingo, the +regiment was relieved from duty at that island, and returned to +England in 1795. + +Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons, and +the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND was conferred on Major-General +William Crosbie, from the Eighty-ninth regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1798] + +The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its ranks until +December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey. + +Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded by +Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the Eighty-first regiment. + +[Sidenote: 1799] + +In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from Guernsey, and +landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that month. + +On its return from the West Indies, the regiment enlisted a number +of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it received drafts of boys, or lads, +from other corps; it was designated a boy regiment, and sent to the +Cape of Good Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be +gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become better adapted for +service in the East Indies, than recruits sent direct from Europe to +India. + +[Sidenote: 1800] + +In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked for the Cape of +Good Hope, where it arrived in May and June following. The companies +on board of one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in +consequence of their crowded state: the crew was composed of Lascars, +among whom much disease prevailed; the infection was communicated +to the soldiers, and the men of the TWENTY-SECOND suffered in their +health; sixty soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital, +before the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape in +a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working the vessel +during the voyage, and the masts and rigging had been damaged during +a gale of wind. + +[Sidenote: 1801] + +The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg, and afterwards +encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land projecting from the east side +of Table Mountain. The sick men received every attention which could +be procured by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the Cape, +and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters, which were +removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801, and again encamped at +Wynberg in March. In May the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in +September joined the camp at Rondebosch. + +The lads having become much improved in size and strength, the light +infantry company joined the flank battalion; and the grenadiers were +detached to the interior, and stationed at Graaff Reinett. + +[Sidenote: 1802] + +Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was removed to +Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett. + +The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed to India, it +was joined by a number of volunteers from corps serving at the Cape +of Good Hope, and embarked from thence in September, October, and +November, when it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and +fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for duty. + +[Sidenote: 1803] + +In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment landed at Fort +William, Calcutta, where the other companies had previously arrived. + +At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao Scindia and +Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers of the Peishwa, and were +desolating the Mahratta states with war; and these two chiefs, +with the Rajah of Berar, formed a confederacy against the British +and their allies. Under these circumstances the flank companies +of the regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the field +force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for the attack of +the province of Cuttack. On entering that province, the troops had +to overcome numerous difficulties from the nature of the country, +the season of the year, and the resistance of the enemy, which they +surmounted with great gallantry. + +On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment highly distinguished themselves at the capture of the fort +of _Barrabatta_ by storm, when they led the assault, and took several +of the enemy's colours. They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and +eight soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the TWENTY-SECOND, +with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth Native Infantry, +were publicly displayed at Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort +William, with an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken. + +[Sidenote: 1804] + +The flank companies of the regiment remained in the field, and the +splendid successes of the British arms appeared likely to bring about +a speedy termination of the war; but hostilities were protracted +by the defection of the Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of +the TWENTY-SECOND joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two men +killed and three wounded at the capture of _Deeg_, in December, and +were engaged in the attempt to bring the refractory Rajah Sing to +submission by the siege of the strong fortress of Bhurtpore. + +[Sidenote: 1805] + +In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its march from Fort +William, for the Upper provinces, and in January, 1805, it halted and +encamped at Benares; but resumed its march in February, and proceeded +to Cawnpore. + +The siege of _Bhurtpore_ was carried on, and the flank companies +were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to capture that place +by storm on the 9th of January, when they had eleven men killed +and twenty-four wounded. They were also engaged in the desperate +attempt to capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when +they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains Lindsay and +McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman, and Caswell, and thirty-one +non-commissioned officers and soldiers, wounded. At the third +unsuccessful attack, on the 21st of February, they had two serjeants +and three soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded. + +Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn hope on each +occasion, and his gallant conduct was rewarded with the commission +of ensign in the Sixty-fifth regiment. + +Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace with the +British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore, and the surviving officers +and soldiers of the flank companies joined the regiment at Cawnpore, +in June. + +Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority, and Scindia +evinced a disposition to renew hostilities. These events occasioned +the regiment to quit Cawnpore, in October, to pursue the army of +Holkar, who was driven from place to place, until the British troops +arrived at the banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted, +and a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia also +concluded a second treaty, and the British power and influence in +India were thus augmented and consolidated. + +[Sidenote: 1806] + +From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched to Delhi, where +it arrived in February, 1806, and in March it was removed to Muttra, +where it received the thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the +Governor-General in Council, for its conduct during the war. + +On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in 1806, was +succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by Lieut.-General Sir +James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth foot. + +[Sidenote: 1807] + +Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded to Berhampore, +where it arrived on the 7th of August. + +[Sidenote: 1809] + +Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed colonel of +the regiment on the 18th of September, 1809, from the Fifty-fourth +foot, in succession to Sir James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the +Seventy-eighth Highlanders. + +[Sidenote: 1810] + +The regiment remained at Berhampore until August, 1810, when it +embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort William, in order to form +part of the expedition against the _Mauritius_, under Major-General +the Honorable J. Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of +Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition, and on the +following day the troops advanced towards the capital; being exposed +to severe heat, and unable to procure water, the soldiers became +exhausted, and arriving at the powder-mills, five miles from Port +Louis, they halted near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of +December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in force, and some +sharp fighting occurred, in which the TWENTY-SECOND took part and had +several men wounded. The French were driven from their ground, and +they fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front of the +position occupied by the French. Being unable to withstand the valour +and discipline of the invading army, the governor, General de Caen, +surrendered the island to the British arms. + +[Sidenote: 1811] + +After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was stationed a +short time at that island, and in January it sent a detachment +of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave, in the Island of +Madagascar. In March and April the regiment was removed to the island +of Bourbon, where it was joined by the survivors of the detachment +from Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers and +twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by the enemy, and +re-captured by the British ships of war. + +[Sidenote: 1812] + +[Sidenote: 1813] + +In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius; but again +proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was removed to the Mauritius a +second time in May, 1813. + +[Sidenote: 1814] + +[Sidenote: 1815] + +A number of men having volunteered from the militia to the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was +pleased to approve of a _second battalion_ being formed, and it was +placed on the establishment of the army on the 10th of February, +1814. The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by the +abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration of the Bourbon +dynasty to the throne of France, the second battalion was disbanded +at Chester, on the 24th of October, transferring the men fit for duty +to the first battalion, which they joined at the Mauritius, in April, +1815, in so good a state, as to be specially noticed in general +orders, and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party, received the +thanks of the governor. + +On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first battalion +of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first battalion of the +Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, were formed into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June +embarked from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The troops +arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August; re-embarked on +the 23rd of September, and landed at the Mauritius on the 14th of +November, 1815. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, +while on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between Ceylon +and the opposite continent. The conduct of the flank companies, while +in India, was highly commended in general orders issued before they +embarked from Fort William,--on their return to the Mauritius. + +While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder of the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment was placed under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven +miles from Port Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing +disease at the Mauritius. There being but a small force left on +the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency by disease, +a meditated insurrection had nearly attained an outbreak, but for +timely information. + +[Sidenote: 1819] + +The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius, under the +command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July, 1819, when it embarked +for England. Previous to quitting the island it was inspected by +Major-General Ralph Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his +admiration of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while +serving under his command. + +Though the TWENTY-SECOND had participated in the capture of the +Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the island presented a large +and handsome gold snuff-box to the regiment on its embarkation for +England, bearing this inscription, "_Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment +de S. M.--Souvenir des Habitans de l'île Maurice_; 1819;" thus +testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly and +soldierlike conduct of the corps during its service of nine years in +the colony. + +After landing at Gosport, in November and December, the regiment +marched to Northampton, under the orders of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough, +K.C.B. + +[Sidenote: 1821] + +In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to Liverpool, where +it embarked on the 9th of October, for Ireland. Having landed at +Dublin on the 10th of October, the regiment marched to Buttevant, +with detachments at Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and +Ballyclough. + +Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in consequence of the +riotous and violent proceedings of the misguided peasantry at this +part of the country, and the disposition evinced to violate the law. + +[Sidenote: 1822] + +On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three thousand men +assembled with such arms as they could procure, for an attack on +Newmarket; and they were repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men +of the regiment, under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel +Green, who received the expression of the approbation of His Royal +Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, and were presented +with a silver cup, by the noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of +the town and vicinity of Newmarket,--"In testimony of the high sense +entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and defeating an +armed body of three thousand insurgents, with thirty men." + +A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the regiment performed +many marches, and much extra duty, in consequence of the disturbed +state of the country. + +[Sidenote: 1823] + +[Sidenote: 1824] + +The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at Buttevant during +the year 1823, and the first nine months of 1824; and the state +of the regiment was repeatedly commended in orders by the General +Officers who made the half-yearly inspections. + +[Sidenote: 1826] + +In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it was subsequently +stationed in Galway, and in the summer of 1826 it was divided into +six service and four depôt companies, in order that the former might +proceed on foreign service. + +The service companies embarked from Cork in November and December, +in three divisions, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major +James Steuart, and Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division +arrived at the island of Jamaica in February, 1827. + +[Sidenote: 1827] + +The service companies suffered severely from the effects of the +climate of Jamaica; in September and October, 1827, they lost three +officers, seventeen serjeants, and one hundred and twenty men, from +fever; the total loss during the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P. +C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant +Edward Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant +William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two non-commissioned +officers and soldiers. + +[Sidenote: 1828] + +[Sidenote: 1829] + +In the following year the losses were much less numerous; and in +April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar arrived and assumed the +command. In June of the same year, the regiment received the thanks +of the civil authorities for the prompt assistance rendered in +extinguishing an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town. + +[Sidenote: 1830] + +On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked from Cork for +South Britain, where they were stationed until the summer of 1836, +when they embarked from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin. + +[Sidenote: 1831] + +The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable insurrection +among the slaves in Jamaica in the winter of 1831-2; the two flank +companies were encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the +following winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in Jamaica, +in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks of the custos and +magistrates were awarded to the corps for its good conduct.[8] + +[Sidenote: 1837] + +The service companies performed duty at the island of Jamaica until +the beginning of 1837, when they commenced embarking for Europe, and +landed at Cork in March and April; they were afterwards joined by the +depôt companies. + +[Sidenote: 1838] + +[Sidenote: 1839] + +[Sidenote: 1840] + +The regiment remained in Ireland during the years 1838 and 1839; +and embarking from Dublin on the 19th of December, 1840, landed at +Liverpool on the 21st of that month. + +[Sidenote: 1841] + +The TWENTY-SECOND regiment, having been selected to proceed to +India, embarked from Gravesend in January, 1841, and landed at +Bombay in May following. It afterwards proceeded to Poonah, where an +encampment was formed, and the regiment was stationed there during +the remainder of the year. + +[Sidenote: 1842] + +In the following year the regiment quitted the camp at Poonah by +divisions, and proceeding to the country of Scinde, was encamped +some time near Kurrachee. The regiment was encamped in two separate +divisions at Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its +ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its prevalence +a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole, consisting of two +companies, was ordered to proceed by the Indus, in the month of +April, 1842, to Sukkur, in Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal +of the British force from Beloochistan. + +The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the British in 1839, +and application was made to the Ameers, who governed the country, +for a portion of land on the banks of the river. This they agreed to +give; but at the same time meditated the destruction of the British +power in the country by treachery. The TWENTY-SECOND quitted the camp +at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the country. + +[Sidenote: 1843] + +The regiment formed part of the force assembled under Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in the destruction of the fort +of _Emaum Ghur_, in the desert, on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843. + +Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled "_The Conquest +of Scinde_," has given, with his characteristic eloquence, the +following spirited description of the march to _Emaum Ghur_, a march +which His Grace the Duke of Wellington described in the House of +Lords, "_as one of the most curious military feats he had ever known +to be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life. +Sir Charles Napier_ (added His Grace) _moved his troops through +the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns transported +under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and in a manner the most +extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat of the enemy which rendered +it impossible for them ever to regain their positions_." + +"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness through which +they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were passing. The sand-hills stretched +north and south for hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at +top, and most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore +after a placid tide. Varying in their heights, their breadth and +steepness, they presented one uniform surface, but while some were +only a mile broad, others were more than ten miles across; some +were of gentle slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the +howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The sand was mingled with +shells, and ran in great streams resembling numerous rivers, skirted +on each side by parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle, +yet thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and wild boar, and +the prints of small deer's footsteps, were sometimes seen at first, +but they soon disappeared, and then the solitude of the waste was +unbroken. + +"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this gloomy region, +living from hand to mouth, uncertain each morning if water could be +found in the evening; and many times it was not found. They were not +even sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and untiring +strength, they continued their dreary dangerous way. The camels found +very little food, and got weak, but the stout infantry helped to +drag the heavy howitzers up the sandy steeps; and all the troops, +despising the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked with a +power and will that overcame every obstacle. On the eighth day they +reached _Emaum Ghur_, eager to strike and storm, and then was seen +how truly laid down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in +war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan, with a strong +fortress well provided, and having a garrison six times as numerous +as the band coming to assail him, had fled with his treasure two days +before; taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by tracks +with which his people were well acquainted, leaving all his stores of +grain and powder behind." + +As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in which the +Beloochees might be able to resist British supremacy, Major-General +Sir Charles Napier determined upon destroying the fortress. It was +a place of great strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks, +into which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing down, so +that recourse was had to mining. The place was full of gunpowder and +grain, and the former was employed in blowing up the fortress, which +was effected on the 15th of January. + +After this difficult and harassing service, the troops returned +triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr, where +Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited his whole army. It is to be +observed that the march was performed without the loss of a man, or +without even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed, +and their plan of campaign frustrated. + +A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the 14th of February: +directions were sent to the British political resident, Major Outram, +by the Ameers, to quit _Hyderabad_, the capital, and before this was +complied with, _eight thousand_ Beloochees, commanded by several +Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into the enclosure +of the British residency. The light company of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, mustering _one hundred_ men, under Captain T. S. Conway, +Lieutenant F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only +force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded by a +wall from four to five feet high. The gallant officers and soldiers +of this company kept the eight thousand Scindian troops, with six +pieces of artillery, at bay nearly four hours; and when their +ammunition was nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with +Major Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels, joined the +troops under Major-General Sir Charles Napier, at Hala. The light +company had two men killed and four wounded on this occasion. + +The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled a numerous +force to destroy the few British troops in the country. Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, trusting to the valour of the troops under +his orders, advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February, +_twenty-two thousand_ Scindian troops were discovered in position +behind the bank of a river at _Meeanee_. The British, mustering _two +thousand eight hundred_ men, advanced in _echelon_ of regiments to +attack their numerous opponents, and the TWENTY-SECOND, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead the attack. A +numerous body of Beloochees discharged their matchlocks and pistols +at the TWENTY-SECOND, and then rushed forward sword in hand to close +upon the British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went down +under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. + +After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated, and, on the +day following the victory, six of the Ameers delivered their swords +to the British General upon the field of battle. The Beloochees +lost five thousand men, and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure +were taken, together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of +February, the British colours waved in triumph over the fortress of +_Hyderabad_. + +In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "_The Conquest of +Scinde_," is given the following spirited and picturesque description +of the battle of MEEANEE:-- + +"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and covered by the +village of Kattree, which was filled with men; that flank offered no +weak point. But in the Shikargah on their left the General instantly +detected a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was covered +by a wall, having only one opening, not very wide, through which it +was evident the Beloochees meant to pour out on the flank and rear +of the advancing British line. The General rode near this wall, and +found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer, and marked it +had no loop-holes for the enemy to shoot through; he rode into the +opening under a play of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall, +saw there was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over +the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the aid of heroism. +Taking a company of the TWENTY-SECOND, he thrust them at once into +the opening, telling their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block +up that entrance; to die there, if it must be,--never to give way! +And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he died there, but +the opening was defended. The great disparity of numbers was thus +abated, and the action of six thousand men paralysed by the more +skilful action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to +numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won Blenheim for the +Duke of Marlborough. + +[Illustration: TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + +FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS. + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._] + +"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments, approached the +enemy's front. The British right passed securely under the wall of +the Shikargah, cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling sound +of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the dead level of the plain was +swept by the Beloochee cannon and matchlocks, which were answered +from time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for +rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to close with their +unseen foes. When the TWENTY-SECOND had got within a hundred yards +of the high sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at +the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees could be just +seen, bending with fiery glances over the levelled matchlocks, and +the voice of the General, shrill and clear, was heard along the line, +commanding the charge. + +"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were run forward into +position, the infantry closed upon the Fulaillee with a run, and +rushed up the sloping bank. The Beloochees, having their matchlocks +laid ready in rest along the summit, waited until the assailants +were within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the rapid +pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope on the inside, +deceived their aim, and the execution was not great; the next moment +the TWENTY-SECOND were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear +down all before them, but they staggered back in amazement at the +forest of swords waving in their front! Thick as standing corn, +and gorgeous as a field of flowers, stood the Beloochees in their +many-coloured garments and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed +of the Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered the +plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their large dark shields, +they shook their sharp swords, beaming in the sun, their shouts +rolled like a peal of thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed +forwards, and full against the front of the TWENTY-SECOND dashed with +demoniac strength and ferocity. But with shouts as loud, and shrieks +as wild and fierce as theirs, and hearts as big, and arms as strong, +the Irish soldiers met them with that queen of weapons the musket, +and sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood." + +The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General Sir Charles +Napier testify the part borne by the TWENTY-SECOND in the victory of +MEEANEE:-- + +"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely wounded as with the +high courage of a soldier he led his regiment (TWENTY-SECOND) up +the desperate bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains Tucker +and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and Phayre, were all wounded, while +gloriously animating their men to sustain the shock of numbers." + +"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant Wood, all fell +honorably, urging on the assault with unmitigated valour. + +"Major Poole, of the TWENTY-SECOND, and Captain Jackson of the +Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded to the command of those +regiments, proved themselves worthy of their dangerous posts. + +"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, Lieutenant McMurdo, of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, had his horse killed, and, while on foot +leading some soldiers in a desperate dash down the enemy's side of +the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has greatly assisted me by his +activity and zeal during the whole of our operations. + +"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity which took place +between our soldiers and their opponents, too numerous for detail in +this despatch, yet well meriting a record." + +In the NOTIFICATION of the Right Honorable Lord Ellenborough, the +Governor-General of India, it was directed, + +"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad, shall be sent +to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal column, whereon shall +be inscribed in the English, and two native languages, the names +of Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several +officers mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and likewise +the names of the several officers, non-commissioned officers, and +privates mentioned in the reports, that thus the names may be for +ever recorded of those who, at MEEANEE, obtained for themselves that +glory in the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier." + +Major Poole, commanding the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, in consequence +of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather having been severely wounded, +stated in his report, respecting the soldiers of the regiment +under his command, who had distinguished themselves in the battle +of Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they feel +difficulty in making selections, where the conduct of every man of +their companies was so satisfactory. In so general a field of action +and persevering exertion, I equally feel at a loss where to draw a +distinction; but it may be proper to mention the names of Private +James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a standard whilst we +were actively engaged with the enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who +shot, bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee Mahomed Khan, +who was mounted, and directing the enemy in the hottest part of the +engagement." + +The loss of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment at the battle of Meeanee +was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,[9] one serjeant, and twenty-two rank +and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, Captain T. S. +Conway, Lieutenants W. M. G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R. +Pennefather and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and fifty +privates wounded. + +The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs who continued +to resist assembled an army, which was commanded by Meer Shere +Mahomed. The British advanced from _Hyderabad_ at daybreak on the +morning of the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock +twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order of battle +behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately made for commencing +the action, and the TWENTY-SECOND regiment led the attack in gallant +style. Major John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D. +George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic example of these +officers, the TWENTY-SECOND advanced steadily against the enemy's +left, exposed to a heavy fire of matchlocks, without returning a +shot, until they arrived within forty paces of the entrenchment, +when they stormed the position occupied by the Beloochees with that +determined bravery which has ever distinguished British soldiers. +Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the rampart, seized one of +the enemy's standards, and was severely wounded while in the act of +waving it, and cheering on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized +another standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant +example of their officers, displayed that heroism which adorns the +British military character. Privates J. Doherty, C. Lynar, E. Jobin, +J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G. Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot +the defenders, and then captured fourteen standards, and made five +prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury also captured +standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot one of the Scindians, and +took from him a silver-knobbed standard. The Beloochee infantry and +artillery fought well, but were unable, although greatly superior in +numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined soldiers. + +Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public despatch, "The +battle was decided by the troop of Horse Artillery, and Her Majesty's +TWENTY-SECOND regiment. + +"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant +Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too highly; and regret to say, +he has received a sabre wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut +down in single combat during the day. + +"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and the officers, +non-commissioned officers, and privates under their command, I have +to return my thanks for their valiant bearing in the action." + +The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven pieces of cannon +were taken in position on the nullah, together with seventeen +standards. The Beloochee force was completely defeated, and their +commander, Meer Shere Mahomed, fled to the desert.[10] Among the +killed was the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee. +Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed on this +occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J. Coote, H. A. G. Evans, +and John Brennan, Ensign Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one +drummer, four corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates +wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment mustered only five +hundred and sixty-two rank and file; the remainder being sick and +convalescent, having been left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde. + +As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories, Her Majesty, +on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint Major-General Sir +Charles James Napier a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable +Military Order of the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,[11] +Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George, and +Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions of the Bath, and their +brevet rank was dated from the above period. + +Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command that a medal +should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and +Soldiers engaged in the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad. + +On the 18th of August, 1843, the TWENTY-SECOND received the Royal +authority to bear upon the regimental or second colour, and on +the appointments, the word "SCINDE," in commemoration of its +distinguished gallantry in the campaign against the Ameers of that +country, during the early part of the year 1843. + +Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred increased honor on +the TWENTY-SECOND, by authorising the corps to bear on the regimental +colour and appointments, in addition to the word "SCINDE," the words +"MEEANEE" and "HYDERABAD," in commemoration of the distinguished +gallantry displayed in the general engagements fought at those places +respectively, on the 17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843. + +On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament were voted to +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B., and to the troops under his +command, "_for the eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by +him in the recent military operations in_ SCINDE, _particularly in +the two decisive battles of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD;" to the several +officers serving under Sir Charles Napier, "_for their unwearied zeal +and conspicuous gallantry_;" and to the troops, "_for their brave and +meritorious conduct_." + +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the regiments at +Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them for their gallantry in +this campaign, addressed the soldiers as follows:-- + +"Soldiers! the Battle of _Meeanee_ is among those of which history +will speak as proving the superiority of _discipline_ over numbers; +and it is well, Soldiers! that we should dwell upon these things; +that we may understand how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed. + +"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would not have won the +victories of _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_! Valour is like the _Strength_ +of a man, Discipline is like his _Mind_, that directs his strength +to effective exertion. If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one +strikes at random, while the other boxes with science, planting every +blow home, we know how the fight must be soon decided. So it is with +two armies,--the one disciplined, the other without discipline. The +General of the disciplined Army directs his columns upon that part of +the enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as the mind +of the boxer directs his blow against the opening offered by his +unskilful enemy. But this is not all,--obedience to orders (which +is discipline) enables us to bring up all the necessary provisions +of war to the day and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at +hand to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and the +body are thrown forward to support and give vigour to the blow of +the pugilist. But not only is valour useless without discipline, +but it is even dangerous; for without discipline the rashly brave +would run heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek +'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus the Army would be +scattered: but when an Army is disciplined, the ponderous charges +of Cavalry, the steady tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing +to charge with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery +pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously to strike +and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers, are Medals won, more by +discipline than by any extraordinary efforts of individual courage. +To reward this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man who +wears this honoured badge is known to the world as one who, in the +midst of the noise, the danger, and confusion of battle, had obeyed +orders, and performed the three great duties of a Soldier--first, not +to fire without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so as +to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to keep his rank and +dress upon his colours. The Medal tells the world that he has bravely +done these things, and no man can walk with one of these Medals +on his breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid +Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be low caste, but the +Soldier, who bears on his breast a medal won in battle, is above all +the castes in the world. The pleasure of giving you these Medals, +Soldiers of the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to +me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing the +reward which you honorably earned, and my satisfaction is increased +by the presence of so large a body of Europeans, for it affords me +an opportunity of saying to my countrymen that they will find these +swarthy warriors of the East staunch and true in action as they were +at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed the example set them by +the glorious TWENTY-SECOND regiment. They will fight to the last +drop of their blood, and stand or fall by the side of their European +comrades. If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times, +War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted to lead an +Army into the field, I should go into action with perfect confidence +in the courage of the Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their +gallantry, not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and from +my own knowledge, of their daring courage. + +"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner to the Officers +now before me, and in justice to them say, that their conduct, and +the conduct of all the British Officers in these two battles, was +very noble. For several hours the two lines were fighting close to +each other, and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw +the British Officers display their worthiness as Military leaders, +and with unflinching intrepidity animating their Soldiers to battle! +To them, therefore, I will now first distribute these honorable +decorations." + +The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the line of officers +of several regiments, and who had not before received their medals, +his Excellency presented each with the Medal,--the bands playing "God +save the Queen." + +On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston, of the 25th +N. I., the General observed,--"But for you, Marston, I probably +should not have had this pleasure;" alluding to this Officer having +intrepidly thrown himself in front of his General when attacked by a +Beloochee Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach the +General. + +On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and proceeded to +Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters embarked on the +27th of April, and sailed to Bombay. Previously to the embarkation +of the regiment for Bombay, the following order was issued by +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:-- + + "_27th April, 1843._ + + "TWENTY-SECOND Regiment! + + "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and you also know how much + I dislike doing so. But nothing shall stand in the way of your + health and well-being, that I have the power to remove. Cut up by + Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may again join + us, and add to the Laurels with which you are already decorated. + + "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_, + _Governor_." + +The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd of May, was +distinguished by high marks of honor, by command of the Governor, on +which occasion the accompanying order was issued:-- + + "_Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843._ + + "GARRISON ORDERS. + + "By the Honorable the Governor.--The Head-Quarters of Her Majesty's + TWENTY-SECOND Regiment of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be + disembarked to-morrow morning at sunrise. + + "On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the + Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of honor to this + distinguished Corps, will himself receive it at the Apollo Pier. + + "On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute is to be + fired from the Saluting Battery. + + "The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn up in Review + Order, in a convenient position, and will salute Her Majesty's + TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as it passes on its way to Fort George + Barracks. + + "His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military Officers at + the Presidency who may not be sick, or engaged on other duty. + + "The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to carry out the above + order. + + "BRUCE SETON, _Major_, + _Town Major_." + +The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration of the +gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a public banquet to the +Officers of the corps; and the inhabitants of Bombay, including the +Civil Authorities, raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to +the benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and orphans, by +the Campaign in Scinde. + +The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, and proceeded +from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on the 23rd of May. The right +wing and head-quarters arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of +June. + +General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th of October, 1843, +and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Major-General Sir +Charles James Napier, K.C.B. + +[Sidenote: 1844] + +On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment marched from +Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the 19th the whole moved together +for Field Service in the Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost +two officers, and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by +cholera. + +A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the north pettah +under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the 27th of November; on +the 28th, 29th, and 30th of November the regiment, under the command +of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment +of _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_, and on the 1st of December was at +the capture of those forts, the latter of which was taken by the +regiment. During these operations the TWENTY-SECOND formed part of +the third brigade of the force employed under Major-General Delamotte. + +On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment marched, and joined +the first brigade on service in the Sawunt-Warree district; the other +wing remained near Kolapore. + +On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment arrived at +Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the first brigade of the Field +Force in the Sawunt-Warree country, and was employed in investing +the forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the +operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades in the +densely wooded country between Susseedroog and the Forts. + +[Sidenote: 1845] + +The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; on the 17th of +January, 1845, part of the wing descended the Elephant rock with +other troops, and took the village of Seevapore, in the Concan, close +under Fort Monuhurr, where one man was killed and seven wounded. The +whole of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or heights +above, and part in the Concan close under the forts, investing them +from the 17th to the 26th of January, during which period the forts +were constantly shelled by the British artillery, the enemy from the +forts firing their great guns and musketry. + +On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated the forts +unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, leaving the forts in +the possession of the Anglo-Indian army. + +The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th of February, +escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. The regiment was +employed in doing duty over about six hundred prisoners until its +recall to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, +and arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845. + +A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank and file, +under the command of Captain Souter, marched from Poonah for Bombay +on the 25th of December, 1845. + +[Sidenote: 1846] + +The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command of +Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting of five +companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay on the 15th of August, 1846, +and joined the wing of the TWENTY-SECOND at that station. The march +was performed in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain +consequently falling nearly the whole of the way. + +The regiment remained together at Bombay, having six companies +at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until the 14th of November, +1846, when the head-quarters, with five of the companies which were +stationed at Colaba, were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever +of a malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every soldier +at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in less than two months; +the casualties were very numerous. + +[Sidenote: 1847] + +[Sidenote: 1848] + +The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched from Bombay +on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived at Poonah on the 21st of +January. During the year 1848 the regiment continued to be stationed +at Poonah. + +[Sidenote: 1849] + +On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded to Bombay, and +was subsequently stationed at Colaba. The left wing, consisting of +four companies, embarked for Kurrachee on the 24th of January. + +In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has been extended, the +regiment remained at Colaba, and consisted of fifty-three serjeants, +nineteen drummers, and 1042 rank and file, under the command of +Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau +being in command of the Poonah brigade. + + +1849. + + +[Illustration: BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE, +BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17^{TH} FEBRUARY 1843. + +SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF MEEANEE AND +HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843. + +_For Cannon's Military Records._ + +_Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S^t. Strand._] + + + _Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of_ + MEEANEE, _on the 17th of February, 1843._ + +The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was taken at +the Battle of _Meeanee_, on the 17th of February, 1843, by Private +James O'Neill of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as narrated at page 35 +of the Historical Record. The Standard is triangular; the longest +side is about seven feet in length, and the other sides measure each +about five feet. The Staff is nine feet in length. + +The Standards captured at the Battle of _Hyderabad_, on the 24th of +March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do not afford a +just idea of the Army which they may be supposed to have led on. No +person, on viewing these Trophies, would suppose the Beloochee Army, +to which they belonged, to have been composed of men so gallant and +so formidable; so well armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, +as the Scindian troops proved themselves in these battles. + + + _Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of the + Victories of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD, _and conferred on the + Officers and Men engaged in those Battles._ + +On the obverse; the bust of HER MAJESTY, with the inscription +"VICTORIA REGINA." + +On the reverse; the words "MEEANEE," "HYDERABAD," "1843," enclosed +within branches of Laurel, and surmounted by the Imperial Crown. + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[6] Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was +restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It +was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to +Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763. + +[7] The grenadier company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, which had +been incorporated with the "_Louisburg Grenadiers_," formed part of +the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights of Abraham +on the 13th of September, 1759. + +[8] When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented +the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in reference +to the conduct of the regiment,--"I had myself the means of +knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, whilst your +head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally popular, +and their departure generally regretted. During the few pleasant days +I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the flank companies of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment formed a part, I remember upon remarking +to the Major-General there commanding, the perfect good conduct of +all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew better men.'" + +[9] Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by +the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was promoted +Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was appointed ensign +in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, the commissions being dated 18th +February, 1843, the day following the battle of Meeanee. + +[10] The following interesting circumstance is recorded by +Major-General Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, +respecting the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere +Mahomed:-- + +"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the +Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat, +saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of +water; they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins +and struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that +moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the TWENTY-SECOND +came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the +generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their +own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then they +all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the TWENTY-SECOND men's muskets for +them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging them to hold +out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, but soon fell. +It was then discovered that these noble fellows were all wounded, +some deeply, but thinking there was to be another fight, they had +concealed their hurts, and forced nature to sustain the loss of +blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, the long marches, and the +sandy desert, that their last moments might be given to their country +on another field of battle!" + + _Names of men of the_ TWENTY-SECOND _regiment who concealed their + wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with their + regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand._ + +Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, Henry Lines, +Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, James Mulvey, and +Silvester Day. + +[11] Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp to +the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having been +deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing as +a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of +Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained. + +Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, with +Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and becoming +supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth regiment from India +in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, 1848, Colonel Pennefather +was appointed to serve on the Staff of the army in Ireland. + + + + +SUCCESSION OF COLONELS + +OF + +THE TWENTY-SECOND, + +OR + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. + + +HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, K.G. + +_Appointed 16th March, 1689._ + +LORD HENRY HOWARD, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, afterwards Duke of +Norfolk, was summoned to parliament in 1678, by the title of Lord +Mowbray: and on the death of Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship +was nominated governor and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden +of the forest of Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and +Surrey. On the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the +dignity of DUKE OF NORFOLK, and of Earl Marshal of England; and in +May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble order of the +Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of the DUKE OF MONMOUTH, +the DUKE OF NORFOLK took great interest in raising a regiment of +foot for the service of King James II., now the twelfth regiment of +foot, of which he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve +of the measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to the +protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the King gave the +DUKE OF NORFOLK the sword of state to carry with him to the Popish +chapel, which he carried as far as the door and then stopped, not +being willing to enter the chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your +father would have gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,--"Your +Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so +far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and joined in the invitation +to the PRINCE OF ORANGE. When the Prince landed, the DUKE OF NORFOLK +was in London, and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for +a free parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk, +declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and some of the +neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. On the elevation +of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his Graced was sworn a member +of the privy council; and afterwards used his interest and influence +in raising a corps of infantry, now the TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, of +which he was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his +commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April 1701. + + +SIR HENRY BELLASIS, KT. + +_Appointed 28th September, 1689._ + +SIR HENRY BELLASIS was educated in strict principles of loyalty and +attachment to monarchical government, and when a youth he suffered +in the royal cause during the usurpation of Cromwell. Soon after the +restoration he was nominated captain of an independent company in +garrison at Hull, of which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) +was appointed governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of +the Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of 1674, Sir +Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and pikemen for the +service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and was engaged +at the siege of Grave in the autumn of that year. He also served +at the siege of Maestricht in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel +in 1677; and in the following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley +in the command of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the +battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and ability, +vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the Prince of +Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was wounded. During +the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, in 1685, he accompanied +his regiment to England; and in 1687 circumstances occurred which +occasioned him to withdraw from the Dutch service; but he preserved +his attachment to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of +Orange. In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, with which corps he served in Ireland +under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He served as brigadier-general +under King William in 1690; was at the battle of the Boyne; and at +the siege of Limerick, where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 +he acquired new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed +bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the reduction +of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, and took +possession of the town on the 26th of July, with his own and two +other regiments of foot. The rank of major-general was conferred +on this distinguished officer in April, 1692, and he commanded a +brigade under King William in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. +He acquired additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; +also in the command of a brigade under King William during the +following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded him +with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious conduct procured him +the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, by whom he was employed +on important services. He commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, +in May, 1695; and a division of the covering army was placed under +his orders during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign +he was appointed president of the general court-martial which tried +the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the enemy, and +sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. He continued to serve +in the Netherlands until the peace of Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained +the colonelcy of the Queen Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in +exchange with Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the +British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been charged +with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, he was tried by +a court-martial and dismissed the service. His reputation was thus +unfortunately tarnished; but his crime does not appear to have been +considered of a heinous nature, as he was subsequently elected a +member of parliament for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen +Anne, in 1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several +particulars respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in +June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He died on the 14th +of December, 1717. + + +WILLIAM SELWYN. + +_Appointed 28th June, 1701._ + +WILLIAM SELWYN served in the army of the United Provinces of the +Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., and afterwards held a +commission under the British crown. In 1688 he was nominated captain +and lieut.-colonel in the second foot guards, with which corps he +served in Flanders, and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy +of the second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke. +He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen on +the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under the eye of +his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, in the summer +of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general during +the siege. He subsequently commanded a brigade of infantry in the +Netherlands, under King William III., who nominated him governor of +the island of Jamaica. He exchanged to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in +1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on the 10th June, +1702. He died in June, 1702. + + +THOMAS HANDASYD. + +_Appointed 20th June, 1702._ + +After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, THOMAS +HANDASYD was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, with which corps he proceeded to the island of Jamaica; +and in June, 1702, Queen Anne promoted him to the colonelcy of the +regiment. He served in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of +brigadier-general in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In +1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in +favour of his non. + + +ROGER HANDASYD. + +_Appointed 3rd April, 1712._ + +This Officer served many years in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, and was +promoted by Queen Anne to the lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which +he commanded some time at the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his +father in the colonelcy of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the +sixteenth foot in 1730,--promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in +1735,--to that of major-general in 1739,--and to lieut.-general in +1743. He died in 1763. + + +WILLIAM BARRELL. + +_Appointed 25th August, 1730._ + +This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; he +obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished conduct +in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the brevet rank of +colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 he was promoted to +the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; in 1727 he was appointed +brigadier-general; in 1730 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment, and in 1734 to the King's Own. In the following year +he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of +lieut.-general; and he was also appointed governor of Pendennis +Castle. He died on the 9th of August, 1749. + + +THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR. + +_Appointed 30th October, 1734._ + +THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR entered the army in the reign of Queen +Anne, and served under the celebrated JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. He +was several years an officer in the third foot guards, in which +corps he rose to the commission of major, with the rank of colonel, +and in 1734 King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment, from which he was removed, in 1737, to the +first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of major-general; and to that of +lieut.-general in 1745, at which time he was performing the duty of +quartermaster-general in the Netherlands, to the army commanded by +His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year +he commanded an expedition which was originally designed for the +attack of the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, +and afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and the +peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, achieved. +He was subsequently employed on an embassy to the courts of Vienna +and Turin.[12] On the decease of his brother, in 1750, he became +entitled to the dignity of Lord Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he +preferred a seat in the House of Commons, of which he had been many +years a member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 he +was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, in November, +1762. + + +JOHN MOYLE. + +_Appointed 27th June, 1737._ + +JOHN MOYLE entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and served +with reputation under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough; he +rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot, +and in 1708 was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army. At the +peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded. In 1723 King George +I. conferred the colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel +Moyle, who was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, +and to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to the +TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He died on the 3rd of November, 1738. + + +THOMAS PAGET. + +_Appointed 13th December, 1738._ + +This officer entered the army in the reign of King William III., +and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now seventh +dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the celebrated John +Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, 1710, he was promoted +to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth horse; he was afterwards +lieut.-colonel of the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in +July, 1732, was nominated colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from +which he was removed, in 1738, to the TWENTY-SECOND. In 1739 he was +promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of +May, 1741. + + +RICHARD O'FARRELL. + +_Appointed 12th August, 1741._ + +RICHARD O'FARRELL was nominated ensign in a regiment of foot on +the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation in the wars of +King William III. and of Queen Anne. On the 20th of December, 1722, +he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the ninth foot, and he +performed the duties of commanding officer to that corps many years, +with credit to himself and advantage to the service. On the decease +of Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded the +long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell with the +colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. In 1746 Colonel O'Farrell +was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1754 to that of +major-general. His decease occurred in 1757. + + +EDWARD WHITMORE. + +_Appointed 11th July, 1757._ + +EDWARD WHITMORE entered the army in the reign of King George II., and +serving with distinction in the wars of the Austrian succession, +was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment +on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed the duty of commanding +officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment with reputation ten years; +and in July, 1757, King George II. rewarded him with the colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general +in America in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade under +Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the descent on Cape +Breton, and at the siege and capture of Louisburg, of which fortress +he was afterwards nominated governor. On the 19th of February, 1761, +he was promoted to the rank of major-general. During the following +winter he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship +was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth, and +Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night, fell overboard +and was drowned. + + +THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE. + +_Appointed 29th March, 1762._ + +THE HONORABLE THOMAS GAGE, second son of Thomas, first Viscount +Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having served some time in the +subordinate commissions, was appointed major of the Forty-fourth +foot in February, 1747; and he was further promoted to the +lieut.-colonelcy of the regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He +was serving with his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred +between Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the +banks of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the +forces sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to +command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi. +In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General +Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable Thomas Gage +was wounded. He continued to serve in America, where he raised a +provincial regiment, which was numbered the eightieth, light-armed +foot, of which he was appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also +appointed brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the +army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued to form +part of the British dominions from that period. He was promoted +to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in the same year he +performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief in North America, and also +succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth +regiment, which he held two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst +was re-appointed. In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the +TWENTY-SECOND foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the rank +of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between Great Britain +and her North American colonies began to assume a serious aspect, he +was appointed Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts +Bay, and he arrived at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced +in the following year, and his active exertions to suppress the +rebellion were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment of +Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned in a few +months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed colonel of the +seventeenth light dragoons; he was promoted to the rank of general +in November following, and in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh +dragoons. He died in 1787. + + +CHARLES O'HARA. + +_Appointed 18th April, 1782._ + +CHARLES O'HARA was appointed cornet in the third dragoons in +December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant and +captain in the second foot guards. He served in Portugal in 1762, +and performed the duties of quartermaster-general to the army under +Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. In 1769 he was promoted to the +rank of captain and lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment +in North America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the rank +of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot guards under +Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; distinguished himself at +the passage of the Catawba river on the 1st of February, 1781; and +was wounded at the battle of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782 +he was nominated to the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment; was +removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was advanced +to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded the British +troops at Toulon, and was wounded and taken prisoner in an action +with the French republican troops on the 30th of November, 1793. His +services were rewarded with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar, +and in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded +that he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and +enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and +accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st of February, +1802. + + +DAVID DUNDAS. + +_Appointed 2nd April, 1791._ + +DAVID DUNDAS was one of the most distinguished officers of the age +in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the principles of +military tactics. He commenced his military education at the age +of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, and at fifteen he assisted +in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he obtained a commission in the +Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 he proceeded with the expedition to +the coast of France as an assistant quartermaster-general; and in +the following year obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised +regiment of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth, +or King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany in 1760 and +1761; in the following summer he accompanied an expedition to Cuba, +as aide-de-camp to Major-General Eliott, and was actively employed in +the reduction of the Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in +his regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged by an +ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every branch of his +profession, he obtained permission to proceed to the Continent, to +observe the practice of the French and Austrian armies. In 1775 he +obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the twelfth light dragoons, joined +the regiment in Ireland shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the +appointment of quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was +removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now the +fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the Continent, +attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during three summers, +and after his return he presented His Majesty with a detailed account +of their evolutions. + +Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced, in +1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military movements, +which became the basis of our army regulations for field exercises +and movements. His abilities obtained for him the favour and +attention of King George III., who appointed him adjutant-general +in Ireland, for the purpose of introducing his system of tactics +into the army of that country. In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted +to the rank of major-general. In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of +the TWENTY-SECOND foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish +staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in service +of actual warfare. After the commencement of hostilities with the +French republic, Major-General Dundas was employed on a military +mission to the island of Jersey, and was subsequently sent to the +Continent to confer with the Duke of York respecting the siege of +Dunkirk. From Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded +under Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was taken +prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison. His services +there, although he was ultimately obliged to evacuate the place, +called forth the approbation of his Sovereign and of the British +nation. After abandoning Toulon, he made a descent on Corsica, which +island was reduced and annexed to the British dominions; but shortly +afterwards he received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he +arrived in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry +at the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General +Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through Holland, and the +corps under his immediate command gained considerable advantage over +the enemy in two successive actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly +distinguished himself also in an attack upon the French post at +Thuyl, in December of the same year. He continued with the British +troops in Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was +appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After his return +to England he was appointed quartermaster-general to the army; and +he composed the celebrated regulations for the field exercises and +movements for the cavalry, which were approved by his Royal Highness +the Duke of York, and by King George III., and ordered to be +exclusively adopted throughout the cavalry. + +In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of the allied +army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to Holland; he +distinguished himself in several actions with the enemy, and was +highly commended by His Royal Highness in his public despatches. In +1801 he was appointed colonel of the second, or Royal North British +dragoons, and was constituted governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was +promoted to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the +French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in command of +the troops in the southern district, which comprised the counties +of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was appointed governor of the Royal +Hospital at Chelsea, and created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of +March, 1809, His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished +veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army, on the +resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York, +which appointment he held until the 25th of May, 1811, when His Royal +Highness was re-appointed. He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of +the rifle brigade on the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the +colonelcy of the King's dragoon guards on the 27th of January, 1813. +He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of sixty +years. + + +WILLIAM CROSBIE. + +_Appointed 23rd December, 1795._ + +After serving in the subordinate commissions, WILLIAM CROSBIE was +nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth regiment, on +the 9th of May, 1769; and in October, 1778, he was promoted to the +majority of the seventh Royal Fusiliers, with which corps he served +in the Carolinas; in April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785, +he obtained the permission of King George III. for the introduction +of an order of merit in the corps, which under his command obtained +a high reputation for correct discipline. He was promoted to the +rank of colonel in 1790; and in 1793 received a letter of service for +raising the Eighty-ninth regiment, of which he was appointed colonel. +In 1794 he was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed +to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in 1795. He died on the 16th of June, +1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was lieut.-governor at the +time of his decease. + + +JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE. + +_Appointed 18th June, 1798._ + +JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal Navy, evinced +great talent from his youth. It is recorded that, when a boy, he was +taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed up the river St. Lawrence, to +Quebec; and he constructed a chart of the river, which was given to +Major-General Wolfe, who sailed with an expedition against Quebec, +in 1759. On the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the +Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston, in +1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment in December, +1775, and served at Long Island and New York in 1776, and in the +expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777, when he distinguished himself at +the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded. In October of the same +year, he was placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The +Queen's Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted +to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services with this corps +are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, in a letter to +Lord George Germaine, in the following terms:--"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe +has been at the head of a battalion since October, 1777, and since +that time he has been perpetually with the advance of the army. +The history of the corps under his command is a series of gallant, +skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without a +single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or taken, twice +their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself has been thrice wounded; +and I do not scruple to assert, that his successes have been no less +the fruit of the most extensive knowledge of his profession which +study and the experience within his reach could give him, than of +the most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly +distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina, and Virginia, +he was included in the capitulation of York Town, and returned to +England in a state of debility from excessive exertion, &c. In 1790 +he was promoted to the rank of colonel, and in the following year +raised a corps of infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he +was appointed colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently +proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the same talent, +energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously in the American war. +In 1794 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1796 to +the local rank of lieut.-general in the island of St. Domingo. In +January, 1798, he was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment, +and was removed, in June following, to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, +the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in 1806. + + +SIR JAMES H. CRAIG, K.B. + +_Appointed 30th October, 1806._ + +JAMES HENRY CRAIG was appointed ensign in the thirtieth foot, in +1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in 1771 he was +promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, with which +corps he served several campaigns in America; and in 1777 he was +promoted to the majority, and in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of +the Eighty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1783, to +the sixteenth. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and +to that of major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the +colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to the rank of +lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth in 1804. He +commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, in 1805, with the local +rank of general, and the dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops +under his orders landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession +of the island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND +regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor of Upper and Lower +Canada, with the local rank of general in America; in 1809 he was +removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. He was also appointed +governor of Blackness Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812. + + +THE HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH. + +_Appointed 18th September, 1809._ + +In 1778 the HONORABLE EDWARD FINCH was appointed cornet in the +eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was promoted to a lieutenancy +in the Eighty-seventh foot. He embarked for the West Indies, in +January, 1780, and served there, and in North America, until 1782, +when he returned to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain +in the second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain +and lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns of +1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness the Duke of +York, and shared in the several actions in which the foot guards +distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was promoted to the rank of +colonel, and in 1799 he commanded the first battalion of his regiment +in the expedition to Holland, where he served in several actions +under Lieut.-General Sir Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness +the Duke of York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the +expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, and +was promoted to the rank of major-general, in January, 1801. After +commanding the light cavalry in Egypt some time, he was placed at +the head of a brigade of infantry, and was honored with the Order of +the Crescent from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of foot +guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in 1807 he commanded +a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. In 1808 he was promoted to +the rank of lieut.-general, and appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth +regiment, and in 1809 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND. He was +promoted to the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the +27th of October, 1843. + + +SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER, G.C.B. + +_Appointed 21st November, 1843._ + +The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General Sir +Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her Majesty to the Colonelcy +of the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment. + + "TWENTY-SECOND! + + Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me at your head, + and I shall end my military career wearing the uniform of the + Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory, and well I know it will + increase, when you have again an opportunity to use your Arms! + Never were the Musket and Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor + were the Royal Colours of England ever confided to more intrepid + Soldiers! + + "Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments that + they had formerly commanded, and with whose glory their own fame + is associated; but old Comrades have passed away,--to the new men, + they are strangers,--and nought remains to bind them to their + Regiments, but Memory and Renown! My good fortune has been greater, + for while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old Corps, + the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the TWENTY-SECOND, + placed among men at whose head I have so lately fought, and to + whose valour I owe so much!! + + "Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as _pseudo_ Philosophers + pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive us not of Manly + sentiments. I shall always have the strongest attachment to the + corps with whom I have served, and among the honors won for me by + the Army of Scinde, the greatest is that of being your Colonel!! + + (Signed) "C. J. NAPIER, _Major-General_, + "_Colonel 22nd Regiment_. + + "_Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844._" + +The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as Colonel of +the TWENTY-SECOND Regiment, was in the _Duke of Wellington's own +hand-writing_:-- + + "P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty, principally + on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you, as this was + the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India engaged in the + two glorious battles fought at _Meeanee_ and _Hyderabad_, in + _Scinde_; and Her Majesty was graciously pleased to approve of the + recommendation on that ground." + + + LONDON: + Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street, + For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. + + +FOOTNOTE: + +[12] David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair, +during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to +Vienna and Turin. + + + + + TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE + + Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been + corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within + the text and consultation of external sources. + + Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, + and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. + + Pg xxix: 'thence to Portmouth' replaced by 'thence to Portsmouth'. + Pg 34: 'a deperate dash' replaced by 'a desperate dash'. + Pg 41: 'stanch and true' replaced by 'staunch and true'. + Pg 45: 'until its recal' replaced by 'until its recall'. + Pg 52: 'Anne to that' replaced by 'Anne to the'. + Pg 59: '27th of Januuary' replaced by '27th of January'. + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE +TWENTY-SECOND, OR THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT *** + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the +United States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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If you +are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the +country where you are located before using this eBook. +</div> + +<table style='min-width:0; padding:0; margin-left:0; border-collapse:collapse'> + <tr><td>Title:</td><td>Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot</td></tr> + <tr><td></td><td>containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849</td></tr> +</table> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Richard Cannon</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: February 17, 2021 [eBook #64581]</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Brian Coe, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)</div> + +<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE TWENTY-SECOND, OR THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT ***</div> + + +<div class="transnote"> +<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> + +<p>Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been +placed at the end of each major section.</p> + +<p>Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img class="w100" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="original cover" /> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"></div> + +<div class="figcenter illowe28" id="FP"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_frontispiece.jpg" alt="" /> + <div class="caption"> + +<span class="fs90">BY COMMAND OF</span> His late Majesty <span class="fs90">WILLIAM THE IV<sup><span class="fs70">TH</span></sup>.</span><br /> +<span class="fs80"><em>and under the Patronage of</em></span><br /> +Her Majesty the Queen.<br /><br /> + +HISTORICAL RECORDS,<br /> +<span class="fs80"><em>OF THE</em></span><br /> +<span class="fs150">British Army</span><br /> + +<em>Comprising the</em><br /> +<em><span class="fs135">History of every Regiment</span></em><br /> +<em>IN HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE</em>.<br /> + +<em>By Richard Cannon Esq<sup>re</sup>.</em><br /> + +<em>Adjutant General's Office, Horse Guards.</em><br /> + +London.<br /> + +<em>Printed by Authority.</em><br /> + + </div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h1><span class="fs90 lsp2">HISTORICAL RECORD</span><br /> + +<span class="fs60">OF</span><br /> + +<span class="fs135">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</span><br /> + +<span class="fs60">OR</span><br /> + +THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</h1> +</div> + +<p class="p2 pfs60">CONTAINING</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs90 lht">AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT<br /> +IN 1689,<br /> + +AND OF ITS SUBSEQUENT SERVICES<br /> +TO 1849.</p> + +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p class="p3 pfs60">COMPILED BY</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs120">RICHARD CANNON, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs60 lsp2">ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS.</p> + +<hr class="r30a" /> +<p class="pfs60 lsp2">ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.</p> +<hr class="r30b" /> + +<p class="p3 pfs100 lsp">LONDON:</p> +<p class="pfs120 lsp">PARKER, FURNIVALL, & PARKER,</p> +<p class="pfs80">30, CHARING-CROSS.</p> +<hr class="r5a" /> +<p class="pfs60">MDCCCXLIX.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_i"></a>[Pg i]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak lsp2" id="GENERAL_ORDERS">GENERAL ORDERS.</h2> +</div> + +<hr class="r20a" /> +<hr class="r20a" /> +<p class="p2 right fs80"><em>HORSE-GUARDS</em>,</p> +<p class="right fs80"><em>1st January, 1836</em>.</p> + +<p class="noindent">His Majesty has been pleased to command that, +with the view of doing the fullest justice to Regiments, +as well as to Individuals who have distinguished +themselves by their Bravery in Action +with the Enemy, an Account of the Services of +every Regiment in the British Army shall be published +under the superintendence and direction of +the Adjutant-General; and that this Account shall +contain the following particulars, viz.:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>—— The Period and Circumstances of the Original +Formation of the Regiment; The Stations at which it +has been from time to time employed; The Battles, +Sieges, and other Military Operations in which it has +been engaged, particularly specifying any Achievement +it may have performed, and the Colours, +Trophies, &c., it may have captured from the +Enemy.</p> + +<p>—— The Names of the Officers, and the number of +Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates Killed or +Wounded by the Enemy, specifying the place and +Date of the Action.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> + +<p>—— The Names of those Officers who, in consideration +of their Gallant Services and Meritorious +Conduct in Engagements with the Enemy, have +been distinguished with Titles, Medals, or other +Marks of His Majesty's gracious favour.</p> + +<p>—— The Names of all such Officers, Non-Commissioned +Officers, and Privates, as may have +specially signalized themselves in Action.</p> + +<p>And,</p> + +<p>—— The Badges and Devices which the Regiment +may have been permitted to bear, and the +Causes on account of which such Badges or Devices, +or any other Marks of Distinction, have been +granted.</p> +</div> + +<p class="right padr2">By Command of the Right Honorable</p> +<p class="right padr4">GENERAL LORD HILL,</p> +<p class="right"><em>Commanding-in-Chief</em>.</p> + +<p class="p2 right smcap">John Macdonald,</p> +<p class="right padr2"><em>Adjutant-General</em>.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iii"></a>[iii]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak lsp2" id="PREFACE">PREFACE.</h2> +</div> + +<hr class="r15" /> + +<p class="p2 noindent">The character and credit of the British Army must +chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which +all who enter into its service are animated, and +consequently it is of the highest importance that any +measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, +by which alone great and gallant actions are achieved, +should be adopted.</p> + +<p>Nothing can more fully tend to the accomplishment +of this desirable object than a full display of the noble +deeds with which the Military History of our country +abounds. To hold forth these bright examples to +the imitation of the youthful soldier, and thus to +incite him to emulate the meritorious conduct of those +who have preceded him in their honorable career, +are among the motives that have given rise to the +present publication.</p> + +<p>The operations of the British Troops are, indeed, +announced in the "London Gazette," from whence +they are transferred into the public prints: the +achievements of our armies are thus made known at +the time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_iv"></a>[iv]</span> +of praise and admiration to which they are entitled. +On extraordinary occasions, the Houses of Parliament +have been in the habit of conferring on the Commanders, +and the Officers and Troops acting under +their orders, expressions of approbation and of thanks +for their skill and bravery; and these testimonials, +confirmed by the high honour of their Sovereign's +approbation, constitute the reward which the soldier +most highly prizes.</p> + +<p>It has not, however, until late years, been the practice +(which appears to have long prevailed in some of +the Continental armies) for British Regiments to keep +regular records of their services and achievements. +Hence some difficulty has been experienced in obtaining, +particularly from the old Regiments, an authentic +account of their origin and subsequent services.</p> + +<p>This defect will now be remedied, in consequence +of His Majesty having been pleased to command +that every Regiment shall, in future, keep a full and +ample record of its services at home and abroad.</p> + +<p>From the materials thus collected, the country +will henceforth derive information as to the difficulties +and privations which chequer the career of those who +embrace the military profession. In Great Britain, +where so large a number of persons are devoted to +the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, +and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_v"></a>[v]</span> +long a period, being undisturbed by the <em>presence of +war</em>, which few other countries have escaped, comparatively +little is known of the vicissitudes of active +service and of the casualties of climate, to which, +even during peace, the British Troops are exposed in +every part of the globe, with little or no interval of +repose.</p> + +<p>In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which +the country derives from the industry and the enterprise +of the agriculturist and the trader, its happy +inhabitants may be supposed not often to reflect on +the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,—on +their sufferings,—and on the sacrifice of valuable life, +by which so many national benefits are obtained and +preserved.</p> + +<p>The conduct of the British Troops, their valour, +and endurance, have shone conspicuously under great +and trying difficulties; and their character has been +established in Continental warfare by the irresistible +spirit with which they have effected debarkations in +spite of the most formidable opposition, and by the +gallantry and steadiness with which they have maintained +their advantages against superior numbers.</p> + +<p>In the official Reports made by the respective Commanders, +ample justice has generally been done to +the gallant exertions of the Corps employed; but +the details of their services and of acts of individual<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vi"></a>[vi]</span> +bravery can only be fully given in the Annals of the +various Regiments.</p> + +<p>These Records are now preparing for publication, +under his Majesty's special authority, by Mr. +<span class="smcap">Richard Cannon</span>, Principal Clerk of the Adjutant +General's Office; and while the perusal of them cannot +fail to be useful and interesting to military men +of every rank, it is considered that they will also +afford entertainment and information to the general +reader, particularly to those who may have served in +the Army, or who have relatives in the Service.</p> + +<p>There exists in the breasts of most of those who +have served, or are serving, in the Army, an <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Esprit +de Corps</i>—an attachment to everything belonging +to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative of +the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove +interesting. Authentic accounts of the actions of +the great, the valiant, the loyal, have always been +of paramount interest with a brave and civilized +people. Great Britain has produced a race of heroes +who, in moments of danger and terror, have stood +"firm as the rocks of their native shore:" and when +half the world has been arrayed against them, they +have fought the battles of their Country with unshaken +fortitude. It is presumed that a record of +achievements in war,—victories so complete and surprising, +gained by our countrymen, our brothers,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_vii"></a>[vii]</span> +our fellow citizens in arms,—a record which revives +the memory of the brave, and brings their gallant +deeds before us,—will certainly prove acceptable to +the public.</p> + +<p>Biographical Memoirs of the Colonels and other +distinguished Officers will be introduced in the +Records of their respective Regiments, and the +Honorary Distinctions which have, from time to +time, been conferred upon each Regiment, as testifying +the value and importance of its services, will be +faithfully set forth.</p> + +<p>As a convenient mode of Publication, the Record +of each Regiment will be printed in a distinct number, +so that when the whole shall be completed, the +Parts may be bound up in numerical succession.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_viii"></a>[viii]</span><br /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_ix"></a>[ix]</span></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION<br /> + +<span class="fs60">TO</span><br /> + +<span class="fs120 lsp2">THE INFANTRY.</span></h2> +</div> + +<hr class="r20a" /> +<hr class="r20a" /> + +<p class="p2 noindent">The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been +celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness, +and the national superiority of the British troops +over those of other countries has been evinced in +the midst of the most imminent perils. History contains +so many proofs of extraordinary acts of bravery, +that no doubts can be raised upon the facts which +are recorded. It must therefore be admitted, that +the distinguishing feature of the British soldier is +<span class="smcap">Intrepidity</span>. This quality was evinced by the +inhabitants of England when their country was +invaded by Julius Cæsar with a Roman army, on +which occasion the undaunted Britons rushed into +the sea to attack the Roman soldiers as they descended +from their ships; and, although their discipline +and arms were inferior to those of their +adversaries, yet their fierce and dauntless bearing +intimidated the flower of the Roman troops, including +Cæsar's favourite tenth legion. Their arms +consisted of spears, short swords, and other weapons +of rude construction. They had chariots, to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_x"></a>[x]</span> +axles of which were fastened sharp pieces of iron +resembling scythe-blades, and infantry in long +chariots resembling waggons, who alighted and +fought on foot, and for change of ground, pursuit +or retreat, sprang into the chariot and drove off +with the speed of cavalry. These inventions were, +however, unavailing against Cæsar's legions: in +the course of time a military system, with discipline +and subordination, was introduced, and +British courage, being thus regulated, was exerted +to the greatest advantage; a full development of +the national character followed, and it shone forth +in all its native brilliancy.</p> + +<p>The military force of the Anglo Saxons consisted +principally of infantry: Thanes, and other men of +property, however, fought on horseback. The +infantry were of two classes, heavy and light. +The former carried large shields armed with spikes, +long broad swords and spears; and the latter were +armed with swords or spears only. They had also +men armed with clubs, others with battle-axes and +javelins.</p> + +<p>The feudal troops established by William the +Conqueror consisted (as already stated in the Introduction +to the Cavalry) almost entirely of horse; +but when the warlike barons and knights, with their +trains of tenants and vassals, took the field, a proportion +of men appeared on foot, and, although +these were of inferior degree, they proved stout-hearted +Britons of stanch fidelity. When stipendiary +troops were employed, infantry always constituted +a considerable portion of the military force;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xi"></a>[xi]</span> +and this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i> has since acquired, in every quarter +of the globe, a celebrity never exceeded by the +armies of any nation at any period.</p> + +<p>The weapons carried by the infantry, during the +several reigns succeeding the Conquest, were bows +and arrows, half-pikes, lances, halberds, various +kinds of battle-axes, swords, and daggers. Armour +was worn on the head and body, and in course of +time the practice became general for military men +to be so completely cased in steel, that it was +almost impossible to slay them.</p> + +<p>The introduction of the use of gunpowder in the +destructive purposes of war, in the early part of the +fourteenth century, produced a change in the arms +and equipment of the infantry-soldier. Bows and +arrows gave place to various kinds of fire-arms, but +British archers continued formidable adversaries; +and, owing to the inconvenient construction and imperfect +bore of the fire-arms when first introduced, +a body of men, well trained in the use of the bow +from their youth, was considered a valuable acquisition +to every army, even as late as the sixteenth +century.</p> + +<p>During a great part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth +each company of infantry usually consisted of +men armed five different ways; in every hundred +men forty were "<em>men-at-arms</em>," and sixty "<em>shot</em>;" +the "men-at-arms" were ten halberdiers, or battle-axe +men, and thirty pikemen; and the "shot" were +twenty archers, twenty musketeers, and twenty +harquebusiers, and each man carried, besides his +principal weapon, a sword and dagger.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xii"></a>[xii]</span></p> + +<p>Companies of infantry varied at this period in +numbers from 150 to 300 men; each company had +a colour or ensign, and the mode of formation recommended +by an English military writer (Sir John +Smithe) in 1590 was:—the colour in the centre of +the company guarded by the halberdiers; the pikemen +in equal proportions, on each flank of the +halberdiers; half the musketeers on each flank of +the pikes; half the archers on each flank of the musketeers, +and the harquebusiers (whose arms were +much lighter than the muskets then in use) in equal +proportions on each flank of the company for skirmishing.<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +It was customary to unite a number of companies +into one body, called a <span class="smcap">Regiment</span>, which +frequently amounted to three thousand men: but +each company continued to carry a colour. Numerous +improvements were eventually introduced in the +construction of fire-arms, and, it having been found +impossible to make armour proof against the muskets +then in use (which carried a very heavy ball) without +its being too weighty for the soldier, armour was +gradually laid aside by the infantry in the seventeenth +century: bows and arrows also fell into disuse, +and the infantry were reduced to two classes, +viz.: <em>musketeers</em>, armed with matchlock muskets,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiii"></a>[xiii]</span> +swords, and daggers; and <em>pikemen</em>, armed with pikes +from fourteen to eighteen feet long, and swords.</p> + +<p>In the early part of the seventeenth century +Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, reduced the +strength of regiments to 1000 men. He caused the +gunpowder, which had heretofore been carried in +flasks, or in small wooden bandoliers, each containing +a charge, to be made up into cartridges, and +carried in pouches; and he formed each regiment +into two wings of musketeers, and a centre division +of pikemen. He also adopted the practice of forming +four regiments into a brigade; and the number +of colours was afterwards reduced to three in each +regiment. He formed his columns so compactly that +his infantry could resist the charge of the celebrated +Polish horsemen and Austrian cuirassiers; and his +armies became the admiration of other nations. His +mode of formation was copied by the English, +French, and other European states; but so great +was the prejudice in favour of ancient customs, that +all his improvements were not adopted until near a +century afterwards.</p> + +<p>In 1664 King Charles II. raised a corps for sea-service, +styled the Admiral's regiment. In 1678 +each company of 100 men usually consisted of 30 +pikemen, 60 musketeers, and 10 men armed with +light firelocks. In this year the King added a company +of men armed with hand grenades to each of +the old British regiments, which was designated the +"grenadier company." Daggers were so contrived +as to fit in the muzzles of the muskets, and bayonets<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xiv"></a>[xiv]</span> +similar to those at present in use were adopted about +twenty years afterwards.</p> + +<p>An Ordnance regiment was raised in 1685, by +order of King James II., to guard the artillery, and +was designated the Royal Fusiliers (now 7th Foot). +This corps, and the companies of grenadiers, did +not carry pikes.</p> + +<p>King William III. incorporated the Admiral's +regiment in the second Foot Guards, and raised +two Marine regiments for sea-service. During the +war in this reign, each company of infantry (excepting +the fusiliers and grenadiers) consisted of 14 +pikemen and 46 musketeers; the captains carried +pikes; lieutenants, partisans; ensigns, half-pikes; +and serjeants, halberds. After the peace in 1697 the +Marine regiments were disbanded, but were again +formed on the breaking out of the war in 1702.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> + +<p>During the reign of Queen Anne the pikes were +laid aside, and every infantry soldier was armed +with a musket, bayonet, and sword; the grenadiers +ceased, about the same period, to carry hand grenades; +and the regiments were directed to lay aside +their third colour: the corps of Royal Artillery was +first added to the Army in this reign.</p> + +<p>About the year 1745, the men of the battalion +companies of infantry ceased to carry swords; during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xv"></a>[xv]</span> +the reign of George II. light companies were added +to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of +General Officers recommended that the grenadiers +should lay aside their swords, as that weapon had +never been used during the Seven Years' War. Since +that period the arms of the infantry soldier have been +limited to the musket and bayonet.</p> + +<p>The arms and equipment of the British Troops have +seldom differed materially, since the Conquest, from +those of other European states; and in some respects +the arming has, at certain periods, been allowed to +be inferior to that of the nations with whom they +have had to contend; yet, under this disadvantage, +the bravery and superiority of the British infantry +have been evinced on very many and most trying +occasions, and splendid victories have been gained +over very superior numbers.</p> + +<p>Great Britain has produced a race of lion-like +champions who have dared to confront a host of +foes, and have proved themselves valiant with any +arms. At <em>Crecy</em>, King Edward III., at the head of +about 30,000 men, defeated, on the 26th of August, +1346, Philip King of France, whose army is said to +have amounted to 100,000 men; here British valour +encountered veterans of renown:—the King of Bohemia, +the King of Majorca, and many princes and +nobles were slain, and the French army was routed +and cut to pieces. Ten years afterwards, Edward +Prince of Wales, who was designated the Black +Prince, defeated, at <em>Poictiers</em>, with 14,000 men, +a French army of 60,000 horse, besides infantry, +and took John I., King of France, and his son<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvi"></a>[xvi]</span> +Philip, prisoners. On the 25th of October, 1415, +King Henry V., with an army of about 13,000 +men, although greatly exhausted by marches, privations, +and sickness, defeated, at <em>Agincourt</em>, the +Constable of France, at the head of the flower of +the French nobility and an army said to amount to +60,000 men, and gained a complete victory.</p> + +<p>During the seventy years' war between the United +Provinces of the Netherlands and the Spanish monarchy, +which commenced in 1578 and terminated +in 1648, the British infantry in the service of the +States-General were celebrated for their unconquerable +spirit and firmness;<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> and in the thirty +years' war between the Protestant Princes and the +Emperor of Germany, the British Troops in the service +of Sweden and other states were celebrated for +deeds of heroism.<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> In the wars of Queen Anne, +the fame of the British army under the great +<span class="smcap">Marlborough</span> was spread throughout the world; +and if we glance at the achievements performed +within the memory of persons now living, there is +abundant proof that the Britons of the present age +are not inferior to their ancestors in the qualities<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xvii"></a>[xvii]</span> +which constitute good soldiers. Witness the deeds +of the brave men, of whom there are many now +surviving, who fought in Egypt in 1801, under the +brave Abercromby, and compelled the French army, +which had been vainly styled <em>Invincible</em>, to evacuate +that country; also the services of the gallant +Troops during the arduous campaigns in the Peninsula, +under the immortal <span class="smcap">Wellington</span>; and the +determined stand made by British Army at +Waterloo, where Napoleon Bonaparte, who had +long been the inveterate enemy of Great Britain, +and had sought and planned her destruction by +every means he could devise, was compelled to +leave his vanquished legions to their fate, and to +place himself at the disposal of the British Government +These achievements, with others of recent +dates in the distant climes of India, prove that the +same valour and constancy which glowed in the +breasts of the heroes of Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt, +Blenheim, and Ramilies, continue to animate the +Britons of the nineteenth century.</p> + +<p>The British Soldier is distinguished for a robust +and muscular frame,—intrepidity which no danger +can appal,—unconquerable spirit and resolution,—patience +in fatigue and privation, and cheerful obedience +to his superiors. These qualities, united with +an excellent system of order and discipline to regulate +and give a skilful direction to the energies and +adventurous spirit of the hero, and a wise selection +of officers of superior talent to command, whose +presence inspires confidence,—have been the leading +causes of the splendid victories gained by the British<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xviii"></a>[xviii]</span> +arms.<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> The fame of the deeds of the past and +present generations in the various battle-fields where +the robust sons of Albion have fought and conquered, +surrounds the British arms with a halo of glory; +these achievements will live in the page of history to +the end of time.</p> + +<p>The records of the several regiments will be found +to contain a detail of facts of an interesting character, +connected with the hardships, sufferings, and gallant +exploits of British soldiers in the various parts of the +world, where the calls of their Country and the commands +of their Sovereign have required them to +proceed in the execution of their duty, whether in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xix"></a>[xix]</span> +active continental operations, or in maintaining colonial +territories in distant and unfavourable climes.</p> + +<p>The superiority of the British infantry has been +pre-eminently set forth in the wars of six centuries, +and admitted by the greatest commanders which +Europe has produced. The formations and movements +of this <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">arme</i>, as at present practised, while +they are adapted to every species of warfare, and to +all probable situations and circumstances of service, +are calculated to show forth the brilliancy of military +tactics calculated upon mathematical and scientific +principles. Although the movements and evolutions +have been copied from the continental armies, yet +various improvements have from time to time been +introduced, to insure that simplicity and celerity by +which the superiority of the national military character +is maintained. The rank and influence which +Great Britain has attained among the nations of the +world, have in a great measure been purchased by +the valour of the Army, and to persons who have the +welfare of their country at heart, the records of the +several regiments cannot fail to prove interesting.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> A company of 200 men would appear thus:—</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="95%" summary="Structure of a company"> +<tr><td colspan="4"></td><td> <img src="images/flag.jpg" width="20" alt="flag" /></td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td> + <td class="tdc">30</td><td class="tdc">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc wd10">20</td><td class="tdc"></td></tr> +<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Halberds.</td> + <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Muskets.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Harquebuses.</td></tr> +<tr class="fs80"><td class="tdl"></td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td> + <td class="tdl" colspan="2">Pikes.</td><td class="tdl" colspan="2">Archers.</td></tr> +</table> + +<p>The musket carried a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>10</sub>th of a pound; and the +harquebus a ball which weighed <sup>1</sup>/<sub>25</sub>th of a pound.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> The 30th, 31st, and 32nd Regiments were formed as Marine corps +in 1702, and were employed as such during the wars in the reign of +Queen Anne. The Marine corps were embarked in the Fleet under +Admiral Sir George Rooke, and were at the taking of Gibraltar, and +in its subsequent defence in 1704; they were afterwards employed at +the siege of Barcelona in 1705.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> The brave Sir Roger Williams, in his Discourse on War, printed +in 1590, observes:—"I persuade myself ten thousand of our nation +would beat thirty thousand of theirs (the Spaniards) out of the field, +let them be chosen where they list." Yet at this time the Spanish +infantry was allowed to be the best disciplined in Europe. For +instances of valour displayed by the British Infantry during the +Seventy Years' War, see the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or +Buffs.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> <em>Vide</em> the Historical Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of +Foot.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> "Under the blessing of Divine Providence, His Majesty ascribes +the successes which have attended the exertions of his troops in Egypt to +that determined bravery which is inherent in Britons; but His Majesty +desires it may be most solemnly and forcibly impressed on the consideration +of every part of the army, that it has been a strict observance of order, discipline, +and military system, which has given the full energy to the +native valour of the troops, and has enabled them proudly to assert the +superiority of the national military character, in situations uncommonly +arduous, and under circumstances of peculiar difficulty."—<em>General +Orders in 1801.</em></p> + +<p>In the General Orders issued by Lieut.-General Sir John Hope (afterwards +Lord Hopetoun), congratulating the army upon the successful result +of the Battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, 1809, it is stated:—"On +no occasion has the undaunted valour of British troops ever been more +manifest. At the termination of a severe and harassing march, rendered +necessary by the superiority which the enemy had acquired, and +which had materially impaired the efficiency of the troops, many disadvantages +were to be encountered. These have all been surmounted by +the conduct of the troops themselves; and the enemy has been taught, +that whatever advantages of position or of numbers he may possess, there +is inherent in the British officers and soldiers a bravery that knows not +how to yield,—that no circumstances can appal,—and that will ensure +victory, when it is to be obtained by the exertion of any human means."</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"></div> + +<p class="p2 pfs180">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p4 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs150">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT,</p> + +<p class="p4 pfs60">BEARS ON THE REGIMENTAL COLOUR</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs70">THE WORDS</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs120">"SCINDE," "MEEANEE," AND "HYDERABAD,"</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs80 lht"> +IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS DISTINGUISHED GALLANTRY<br /> +IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AMEERS OF SCINDE,<br /> +DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE YEAR 1843;</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80"> +AND PARTICULARLY IN THE TWO DECISIVE BATTLES</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80">OF <span class="fs150">MEEANEE</span> AND <span class="fs150">HYDERABAD</span>,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs80 lht"> +FOUGHT AT THOSE PLACES, RESPECTIVELY,<br /> +ON THE 17th OF FEBRUARY, AND ON THE 24th OF MARCH, 1843.<br /> +</p> + + +<hr class="p4 chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxv"></a>[xxv]</span><br /></p> + +<p class="p2 pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p2 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs135">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="r30" /> + + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs60">OF THE</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs135 lsp">HISTORICAL RECORD.</p> + +<hr class="r30" /> + + +<table class="autotable" summary=""> +<tr> +<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdr smcap fs60">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Introduction.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1689</td> +<td class="tdl">Formation of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Henry, Duke of Norfolk appointed to the Colonelcy</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Numbered the Twenty-Second Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Stationed at Chester</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the siege of Carrickfergus</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Dundalk, and thence to Armagh</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Sir Henry Bellasis, from the Sixth Regiment, + appointed to the Colonelcy, in succession to the Duke of Norfolk</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1690</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the <em>Battle of the Boyne</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Reviewed by King William at <em>Finglass</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Advanced against Athlone</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Rejoined the Army</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed at the first siege of Limerick</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded into winter-quarters</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged with the Rapparees</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1691</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded with the Army against <em>Ballymore</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1691</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Siege and Capture of <em>Athlone</em> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvi"></a>[xxvi]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of <em>Aghrim</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Capture of <em>Galway</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">—————————— + <em>Limerick</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Termination of the War in Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1695</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to join the Army in Flanders</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1696</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to England</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1697</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at <em>Ryswick</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1698</td> +<td class="tdl">Re-embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1701</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Brigadier-General William Selwyn, by exchange, from the Second Foot, + with Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1702</td> +<td class="tdl">Accession of Queen Anne on the demise of King William III</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Handasyd + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Selwyn, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1705</td> +<td class="tdl">Establishment augmented by two companies</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1712</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Roger Handasyd to + the Colonelcy, in succession to his Father, Major-General Thomas Handasyd, retired</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1713</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Utrecht</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1714</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment returned to England, leaving two Independent Companies at Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1715</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed in recruiting its Establishment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1718</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for <em>Ireland</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1726</td> +<td class="tdl">—————— <em>Minorca</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1727</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment embarked for <em>Gibraltar</em> to assist in its Defence against the Spaniards</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1730</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel William Barrel, from the Twenty-Eighth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Roger Handasyd, removed to the Sixteenth Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1734</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Colonel Hon. James St. Clair to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Colonel William Barrell, removed to the Fourth Foot + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxvii"></a>[xxvii]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1737</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General John Moyle, from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Hon. James St. Clair, removed to the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1738</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Colonel Thomas Paget to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Moyle, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1741</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Colonel Paget, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1748</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1749</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment relieved at Minorca and proceeded to Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1751</td> +<td class="tdl">Royal Warrant, dated 1st July, issued for regulating the Clothing, Colours, + Numbers, Facings, Badges, Mottos, and Distinctions of the Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1756</td> +<td class="tdl">War declared against France</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked from Ireland for North America</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1757</td> +<td class="tdl">Promotion of Lieut.-Colonel Edward Whitmore from the Thirty-Sixth Regiment + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General O'Farrell, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1758</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, and the Capture of the Island of <em>Cape Breton</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1759</td> +<td class="tdl">The Grenadier Company, incorporated with the Louisburg Grenadiers,—Engaged at the Battle of Quebec</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1760</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked from Louisburg, proceeded to <em>Quebec</em>, and advanced to <em>Montreal</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the conquest of the Canadas</td> +<td class="tdrb">-</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1761</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to New York, and embarked for the <em>West Indies</em> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxviii"></a>[xxviii]</span></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Island of <em>Dominica</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1762</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the Capture of <em>Martinique</em>, <em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked with the expedition against the <em>Havannah</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Storming and Capture of <em>Fort Moro</em></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Honorable Thomas Gage to the Colonelcy, + in succession to Major-General Whitmore, drowned at sea</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1763</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace concluded at Fontainebleau</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The Havannah restored to Spain, in exchange for the Province of Florida, in South America</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment proceeded to West Florida</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1765</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Great Britain</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1773</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1775</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for North America</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged at the Battle of Bunker's Hill</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1776</td> +<td class="tdl">Quitted Boston, and proceeded to Nova Scotia</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Staten Island, near New York</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Landed on Long Island, and engaged with the Americans at Brooklyn</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Gained possession of New York, captured Fort Washington, and reduced part of the Jerseys</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Detached with other Corps and captured Rhode Island</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1778</td> +<td class="tdl">The King of France having united with the Americans, made preparations for the + re-capture of Rhode Island, but was compelled to abandon the siege</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1779</td> +<td class="tdl">The British Commander-in-Chief resolved to vacate Rhode Island; the Regiment proceeded to New York</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1782</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxix"></a>[xxix]</span> + Appointment of Major-General Charles O'Hara to the Colonelcy, in succession to General + the Honorable Thomas Gage, removed to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment received instructions to assume the title of <em>the Twenty-Second</em>, or <em>the Cheshire Regiment</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1783</td> +<td class="tdl">The American War having terminated, the regiment embarked for England</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1785</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment stationed at Windsor and furnished the Guards at the Castle</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">King George the III. authorized an <em>Order of Merit</em> to be instituted in the corps</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1787</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Jersey and Guernsey, and <ins class="corr" id="tn-xxix" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'thence to Portmouth'"> +thence to Portsmouth</ins></td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1788</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Chatham and Dover</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1790</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1791</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General David Dundas to the Colonelcy, in succession + to Major-General O'Hara, removed to the Seventy-Fourth Highlanders</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1793</td> +<td class="tdl">War commenced between Great Britain and France</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Regiment embarked for the West Indies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1794</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of the Island of Martinique</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Lucia</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— Guadaloupe</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">———— ———— St. Domingo</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1795</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to England from St. Domingo</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General William Crosbie, from the Eighty-Ninth Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Lieut.-General Dundas, removed to the Seventh Light Dragoons</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Guernsey</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxx"></a>[xxx]</span> + Appointment of Major-General John G. Simcoe, from the Eighty-First Regiment, + to the Colonelcy, in succession to Major-General Crosbie, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1799</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Portsmouth</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Authorized to enlist boys or lads with a view to being sent to the Cape of Good Hope, + preparatory to being embarked for service in the East Indies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1800</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for the Cape of Good Hope</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1802</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to India</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1803</td> +<td class="tdl">Arrival at Calcutta</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The flank companies embarked, and joined the field force assembled for the attack + of the province of Cuttack</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Flank Companies engaged at the Capture of the fort of Barrabatta by storm</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1804</td> +<td class="tdl">Joined the army under Lord Lake and engaged in the siege of Bhurtpore</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1805</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from <em>Fort William</em> and encamped at <em>Benares</em>, thence proceeded to <em>Cawnpore</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Siege of Bhurtpore continued, and the Flank Companies distinguished themselves in three unsuccessful attacks</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl"><em>Rajah Sing</em> submitted and concluded a treaty of peace</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">British army withdrew from Bhurtpore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at Cawnpore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl"><em>Holkar</em> and <em>Scindia</em> concluded Treaties of Peace</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from the banks of the Sutlej to <em>Delhi</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Muttra, and received the thanks of the Governor-General in Council and of + General Lord Lake, Commander-in-Chief, for its conduct during the war</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxi"></a>[xxxi]</span> + Appointment of Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, K. B., in succession to General Simcoe, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1807</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Berhampore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1809</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch to the Colonelcy, in succession to + General Sir James Henry Craig, removed to the Seventy-eighth Highlanders</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1810</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked at Fort William, and formed part of the expedition against the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Engaged in the capture of the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1811</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment employed at Tamatave in the Island of Madagascar</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1812</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bourbon</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1813</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed a second time to the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1814</td> +<td class="tdl">A second Battalion added to the establishment of the regiment, which was reduced in the same year</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1815</td> +<td class="tdl">The Flank Companies rejoined the regiment at the Mauritius from Hindoostan</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1819</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for England from the Mauritius</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Landed at Gosport and marched to Northampton</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1821</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Liverpool and embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1822</td> +<td class="tdl">Detachment proceeded against a body of armed men assembled at Newmarket in county of Cork. + The officers commanding this detachment received the thanks of H. R. H. the Duke of York, + and were presented with a silver cup by the gentlemen and inhabitants of the Town of Newmarket, + for attacking and defeating this body of insurgents</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1826</td> +<td class="tdl">Formed into six Service and four Depôt Companies preparatory to embarkation for foreign service</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked for Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1830</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxii"></a>[xxxii]</span> +Depôt Companies embarked for England</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1831</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies employed in suppressing an insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1836</td> +<td class="tdl">Depôt Companies embarked for Ireland</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1837</td> +<td class="tdl">Service Companies embarked from Jamaica for Ireland, and rejoined by the Depôt Companies</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1840</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked from Ireland for England</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1841</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay and proceeded to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1842</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to <em>Scinde</em>, and encamped at Kurrachee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed in the destruction of the Fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The march through the Desert to Emaum Ghur, as described by Major-General William E. P. Napier</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">The troops returned triumphant to Peer-Abu-Bekr</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Treaty of Peace with the Ameers of Scinde</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Treacherous attack upon the British residency at <em>Hyderabad</em>, and gallant defence + made by the <em>Light Company</em> of the <em>Twenty-Second</em> regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Light Company joined the army under Major-General Sir Charles Napier</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Battle of Meeanee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Surrender of six Ameers on the field of battle</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">British Colours planted on the Fortress of Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Details of the defeat of the Beloochees at Meeanee</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Gallant conduct of the Twenty-Second regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Threatened attack by Mere Shere Mahomed</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Battle of Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Flight of Mere Shere Mahomed to the desert</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Particulars of the march of the British troops through the desert</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843</td> +<td class="tdl"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiii"></a>[xxxiii]</span> + Honors and distinctions conferred by Queen Victoria, and by the British Parliament, + on the Twenty-second regiment for its conduct in the Campaign of Scinde</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Address of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the troops in distributing + the medals conferred on them for their gallantry in this campaign</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched from Hyderabad to Kurrachee</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Directed to proceed to Bombay, and Major-General Sir Charles Napier's order on the occasion</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Embarked for Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Honorable reception of the Regiment at Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Appointment of Major-General Sir Charles Napier to the Colonelcy, in succession to + General Honorable E. Finch, deceased</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1844</td> +<td class="tdl">Employed on field-service in the Kolapore districts</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of Forts <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em></td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Operations in the Sawunt-Warree district</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Investments of the Forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1845</td> +<td class="tdl">Capture of the village of Seevapore and other Forts</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Returned to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1846</td> +<td class="tdl">Marched to Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1847</td> +<td class="tdl">Removed to Poonah</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1849</td> +<td class="tdl">Proceeded to Bombay</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">——</td> +<td class="tdl">Conclusion</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdc">————————</td> +<td class="tdrb"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl">Description of the Standards captured at the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad, + and of the Medal conferred in honor of the victories obtained at those places</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxiv"></a>[xxxiv]</span><br /> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_xxxv"></a>[xxxv]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs60">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs120">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs60">OR</p> + +<p class="pfs130">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + + +<table class="autotable" width="95%" summary=""> +<tr> +<td class="tdl smcap fs60">Year</td> +<td class="tdrb smcap fs60">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1689 Henry Duke of Norfolk</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">—— Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1701 William Selwyn</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1702 Thomas Handasyd</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1712 Roger Handasyd</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1730 William Barrell</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1734 <em>Hon.</em> James St. Clair</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1737 John Moyle</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1738 Thomas Paget</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1741 Richard O'Farrell</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1757 Edward Whitmore</td> +<td class="tdrb">—</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1762 <em>Hon.</em> Thomas Gage</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1782 Charles O'Hara</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1791 David Dundas</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1795 William Crosbie</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1798 John Graves Simcoe</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1806 Sir James Henry Craig, K.B.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1809 <em>Hon.</em> Edward Finch</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">1843 Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdc tdpp" colspan="2">PLATES.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Colours of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb nowrap"><em>to face</em><a href="#PL_1"> 1</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Costume of the Regiment</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_2">32</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Engraving of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of Meeanee in 1843; + and of the Silver Medal conferred on the Officers and Men engaged in the + Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad</td> +<td class="tdrb"><a href="#PL_3">47</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="pfs90">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT.</p> +<p class="pfs90">QUEEN'S COLOUR.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter illowp37" id="PL_1" style="max-width: 26.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_001fp.jpg" alt="" /> + <div class="caption"> + REGIMENTAL COLOUR. + </div> +</div> +<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p> +<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand</em></p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span></p> + +<h2 class="p2 nobreak fs120 lsp" id="HISTORICAL_RECORD">HISTORICAL RECORD</h2> +</div> + +<p class="p2 pfs60">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs150">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p> + +<p class="pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + +<hr class="r30a" /> +<hr class="r30b" /> + +<div class="sidenote">1689</div> + +<p class="noindent">The accession of King William III. and Queen Mary, in +February, 1689, was welcomed in England with anticipations +of security to the civil and religious institutions +of the country, and of prosperity in every branch of +national industry; but in Ireland the majority of the +people adhered to the interests of the Stuart dynasty, and +a body of troops was raised in England, for the deliverance +of that country from the power of King James, who had +landed there with an armament from France. On this +occasion <span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk</span>, evinced zeal for the +principles of the Revolution, and raised a regiment of +pikemen and musketeers, to which a company of grenadiers +was attached; and the corps raised under the auspices of +his Grace now bears the title of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT</span>.</p> + +<p>Having been speedily completed in numbers, equipped, +and disciplined, the regiment was encamped near Chester +in the early part of August, and soon afterwards embarked +for Ireland, with the forces commanded by Marshal<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span> +Duke Schomberg. On landing in Ireland, the siege of +<em>Carrickfergus</em> was commenced, and the garrison of that +fortress was forced to surrender in a few days.</p> + +<p>From Carrickfergus, the regiment marched with the +army to Dundalk, where the troops were encamped on +low and wet ground, and suffered much in their health.</p> + +<p>While the regiment was encamped at Dundalk, the +Duke of Norfolk was succeeded in the colonelcy by Sir +Henry Bellasis, who had commanded the Sixth regiment +of foot when it was in the Dutch service.</p> + +<p>On the 7th of November the regiment commenced its +march from Dundalk for Armagh, for winter-quarters.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1690</div> + +<p>In the summer of 1690, the regiment had the honour to +serve at the battle of the <em>Boyne</em>, under the eye of its +Sovereign, who commanded the army in Ireland in person; +and on this occasion it took part in forcing the passage of +the river, and in gaining a decisive victory over the army +of King James on the 1st of July.</p> + +<p>Advancing from the field of battle towards Dublin, +the regiment was reviewed by King William at Finglass, +on the 8th of July, and mustered six hundred and twenty-eight +rank and file under arms. It was afterwards +detached, under Lieut.-General Douglas, against Athlone; +but that fortress was found better provided for a siege +than had been expected, and the regiment rejoined the +army.</p> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> was one of the corps employed at +the siege of <em>Limerick</em>. Many things combined to prevent +the capture of that fortress until the following year, and +when the siege was raised, the regiment proceeded into +winter-quarters, from whence it sent out detachments, +which had several rencounters with bands of armed +peasantry, called Rapparees.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1691</div> + +<p>On the 6th of June, 1691, the regiment joined the army<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span> +commanded by Lieut.-General De Ghinkel (afterwards +Earl of Athlone) on its march for <em>Ballymore</em>, which fortress +was speedily forced to surrender.</p> + +<p>From Ballymore, the regiment marched to <em>Athlone</em>, and +had the honour to take part in the siege of that fortress, +which was captured by storm on the 1st of July. The +grenadier company of the regiment formed part of the +storming party, which forded the river Shannon under a +heavy fire, and carried the works with great gallantry. +The capture of Athlone is one of the many splendid +achievements which have exalted the reputation of the +British arms, and its reduction proved a presage of additional +triumphs.</p> + +<p>Astonished and confounded by the capture of Athlone, +General St. Ruth retreated, with the French and Irish +army under his orders, to a position at <em>Aghrim</em>, where he +was attacked on the 12th of July. On this occasion, the +regiment formed part of the brigade commanded by its +Colonel, Brigadier-General Sir Henry Bellasis, and it +contributed towards the complete overthrow of the army +of King James, which was driven from the field with +severe loss, including its commander, General St. Ruth, +who was killed by a cannon-ball.</p> + +<p>The regiment had one Ensign and two private soldiers +killed; one Major, and twenty-three soldiers wounded.</p> + +<p>On the 19th of July the army approached <em>Galway</em>; +after sunset six regiments of foot and four squadrons of +horse and dragoons passed the river by pontoons, and on +the following morning they captured some outworks. On +the 21st the garrison surrendered. Brigadier-General +Sir Henry Bellasis was nominated Governor of Galway, +and he took possession of the town with the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +and two other regiments of foot.</p> + +<p>The surrender of Galway was followed by the siege<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span> +and capitulation of <em>Limerick</em>, which city was surrendered +in September, and completed the deliverance of Ireland +from the power of King James.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1692<br />1695</div> + +<p>After the reduction of Ireland, the regiment was employed +in garrison and other duties of home-service, +until 1695, when it proceeded to the Netherlands, to +reinforce the army commanded by King William III., +who was engaged in war for the preservation of the +liberties of Europe against the power of Louis XIV. of +France. After landing at Ostend, the regiment was +placed in garrison.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1696</div> + +<p>Some advantages had been gained over the French +arms; to counteract which, Louis XIV. attempted to +weaken the confederates by forming plans for causing +England to become the theatre of civil war. With this +view the Duke of Berwick and several other officers in +the French service were sent to England in disguise, to +instigate the adherents of King James to take arms; a +plot was also formed for the assassination of King William, +and a French army marched to the coast to be in readiness +to embark for England. Under these circumstances +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment and a number of other +corps were ordered to return to England, where they +arrived in March, 1696, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> landed +at Gravesend. The conspirators for the assassination of +King William were discovered; several persons were +apprehended, the British fleet was sent to blockade the +French ports, and the designs of Louis XIV. were frustrated.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1697</div> + +<p>In the following year a treaty of peace was concluded +at Ryswick, and the British Monarch saw his efforts for +the civil and religious liberties of Europe attended with +success.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1698<br />1700</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was afterwards sent to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> +Ireland, where it was stationed during the remainder of the +reign of King William III.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1701</div> + +<p>On the 28th of June, 1701, the colonelcy of the regiment +was conferred on Brigadier-General William +Selwyn, in succession to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bellasis, +who was removed to the Second foot, then styled +the Queen Dowager's regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1702</div> + +<p>King William died in March, 1702, and was succeeded +by Queen Anne, who declared war against France. +Brigadier-General Selwyn was nominated Governor of +Jamaica, and promoted to the rank of Major-General on +the 10th of June, 1702. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was ordered to proceed to Jamaica, and several other +corps also embarked for stations in the West Indies: the +British government designing to make a general attack +on the possessions of France and Spain in South America.</p> + +<p>Major-General Selwyn died at Jamaica, and was succeeded +in the colonelcy of the regiment by the Lieut.-Colonel, +Thomas Handasyd, by commission dated the 20th +of June, 1702.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1703</div> + +<p>A considerable body of troops arrived in the West +Indies in 1703: but they were afterwards recalled to take +part in the war in Europe. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was left at the island of Jamaica, and during the +reign of Queen Anne the regiment was employed in +protecting Jamaica, and the other British settlements in +the West Indies, which important duty it performed with +reputation.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1704<br />1705</div> + +<p>While employed on this duty, the regiment received +drafts from several other corps, and in 1705 an augmentation +of two companies was made to its establishment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1712</div> + +<p>Colonel Handasyd was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General +in December, 1705, and to that of Major-General +in January, 1710. In 1712 he retired from the colonelcy,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> +resigning his commission in favour of his son, Lieut.-Colonel +Roger Handasyd, of the regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1713<br />1714</div> + +<p>In the following year the treaty of Utrecht gave peace +to Europe; and on the 31st of May, 1711, an order was +issued for the men of the regiment fit for duty to be formed +into two independent companies for service at Jamaica: +the officers and staff returning to Europe to recruit.</p> + +<p>The two independent companies thus formed from the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were the nucleus of the <span class="allsmcap">FORTY-NINTH</span> +regiment, which was formed of independent companies at +Jamaica in 1743.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1715<br />1718</div> + +<p>The officers and the serjeants not required for the +independent companies, having arrived in England, were +actively employed in recruiting in 1715; and in 1718 +the regiment proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1719<br />1726</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in Ireland during the eight +years from 1719 to 1726, and in the spring of the last-mentioned +year, it proceeded to the island of Minorca, +which had been captured by the English, in 1708, and +was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in +1713, together with the fortress of Gibraltar.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1727</div> + +<p>In the beginning of 1727, the Spaniards besieged +<em>Gibraltar</em>, and a detachment of the regiment, being sent +to reinforce the garrison, had the honor to take part in +the successful defence of that important fortress. When +the Spaniards raised the siege, the detachment rejoined +the regiment at Minorca.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1730</div> + +<p>Colonel Handasyd commanded the regiment with +reputation until 1730, when he was removed to the +Sixteenth foot, and was succeeded by Brigadier-General +William Barrell, from the Twenty-eighth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1734</div> + +<p>Brigadier-General Barrell was removed to the Fourth +foot in 1734, when King George II. conferred the +colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment on Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> +the Honorable James St. Clair, from Major in the First +foot-guards.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1737</div> + +<p>On the 27th of June, 1737, Colonel the Honorable +James St. Clair was removed to the First, the Royal +regiment of foot, and his Majesty nominated Major-General +John Moyle, from the Thirty-sixth, to the colonelcy +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1738</div> + +<p>Major-General Moyle died on the 3rd of November, +1738, and the colonelcy was afterwards conferred on +Colonel Thomas Paget, from the Thirty-second regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1739<br />1741</div> + +<p>In 1739 Colonel Paget was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of May, 1741, +and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by +Lieut.-Colonel Richard O'Farrell, from the Ninth foot.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1748<br />1749</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was employed in the +protection of the island of Minorca, during the whole of +the War of the Austrian Succession, and, peace having +been concluded, it was relieved from that duty in 1749, +and proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1751</div> + +<p>In the Royal Warrant for regulating the uniform and +distinctions of the several regiments of the army, dated +the 1st of July, 1751, the facings of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment were directed to be of <em>pale buff</em>. The First, or +King's colour, was the Great Union; the Second, or +Regimental colour, was of pale buff silk, with the Union in +the upper canton; in the centre of the colour, the Number +of the Rank of the regiment, in gold Roman characters, +within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1755<br />1756</div> + +<p>The peace of Aix-la-Chapelle was interrupted in 1755 +by the aggressions of the French on the British territory in +North America; and on the 18th of May, 1756, war was +declared against France; in the same year the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment embarked from Ireland for North +America.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1757</div> + +<p>In 1757 the regiment was formed in brigade with the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> +Forty-third, Forty-eighth, and fourth battalion of the +Sixtieth, under Major-General Lord Charles Hay, with +the view of being employed in the attack of <em>Louisburg</em>, +the capital of the French island of <em>Cape Breton</em>, situate +in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but the expedition was +deferred until the following year, and the regiment was +stationed in Nova Scotia during the winter. Major-General +O'Farrell died in the summer of this year, and the +colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Brigadier-General +Edward Whitmore, from the lieut.-colonelcy of +the Thirty-sixth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1758</div> + +<p>Embarking from Halifax, in May, 1758, under the +command of Lieut.-Colonel Andrew Lord Rollo, the +regiment proceeded with the expedition commanded by +Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, and a landing +was effected on the island of Cape Breton, on the 8th +of June, when the British troops evinced great gallantry. +The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had Lieutenants Pierce Butler, +John Jermyn, and William Hamilton wounded; also +several private soldiers killed and wounded.<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> + +<p>The siege of <em>Louisburg</em>, the capital of the island, was +afterwards commenced; and in carrying on the approaches +the troops underwent great fatigue with cheerful alacrity. +By their perseverance, and the co-operation of the fleet, +the town was taken in July, and two other islands in the +Gulf were surrendered. The troops received the thanks +of Parliament, and the approbation of the Sovereign, for +their conduct on this occasion.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1759</div> + +<p>During the year 1759 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +was stationed at Louisburg. Major-General James +Wolfe proceeded up the river St. Lawrence, with a small<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> +armament,<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> and Quebec was captured; but the nation +sustained the loss of Major-General Wolfe, who was +killed in the battle on the heights of Abraham, in front +of Quebec, on the 13th of September, 1759.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1760</div> + +<p>In the spring of 1760 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> and Fortieth +regiments proceeded from Louisburg, under Colonel +Lord Rollo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, up the river St. +Lawrence, to Quebec, from whence they advanced upon +<em>Montreal</em>, with the troops under Brigadier-General the +Honorable James Murray. The French possessions in +Canada were invaded at three points, and the Governor +concentrated his forces at Montreal; but he was unable +to withstand the valour and discipline of British troops, +commanded by officers of talent and experience; he +therefore surrendered Montreal, and with it all Canada, +the French battalions becoming prisoners of war. The +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had thus the honor of taking part in the +conquest of the two fine provinces of Upper and Lower +Canada, which have since continued to form part of the +possessions of the British Crown.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1761</div> + +<p>After the conquest of Canada, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were removed to Albany, from whence they proceeded to +New York, in April, 1761, and afterwards embarked, +under Lord Rollo, for the West Indies.</p> + +<p>The island of <em>Dominica</em> had been declared neutral; but +it was found to be so much under the influence of France, +and proved a refuge to so many privateers of that nation, +that the British government resolved to take possession of +it. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and other corps under +Lord Rollo, landed on the island on the 6th of June, +under cover of the fire of the men-of-war, and drove<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> +the enemy from his batteries: the grenadiers of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment distinguished themselves on +this occasion. In two days the island was reduced to +submission with little loss.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1762</div> + +<p>From Dominica the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded to +Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes, and joined the troops assembled +at that place under the orders of Major-General the +Honorable Robert Monckton, for the attack of the French +island of <em>Martinique</em>. After several attempts on other +parts of the island, a landing was effected in Cas des +Navières Bay, on the 16th of January, 1762; the works +on the heights of <em>Morne Tortenson</em> were captured on the +24th of that month; <em>Morne Garnier</em> was carried on the +27th; and the citadel of <em>Fort Royal</em> surrendered on the +4th of February. These successes were followed by the +surrender of the opulent city of St. Pierre, and the +submission of the whole island to the British Crown. The +Commander of the expedition stated in his despatch—"I +cannot find words to render that ample justice which is +due to the valor of his Majesty's troops which I have +had the honor to command. The difficulties they had +to encounter in the attack of an enemy possessed of +every advantage of art and nature were great; and +their perseverance in surmounting these obstacles, +furnishes a noble example of British spirit."</p> + +<p>The capture of Martinique was followed by that of +<em>Grenada</em>, <em>St. Lucia</em>, and <em>St. Vincent</em>; and the acquisition +of these islands gave additional honor to the expedition of +which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed part.</p> + +<p>Additional forces arrived in the West Indies, and the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering six hundred and +two rank and file, under the command of Major Loftus, +joined the expedition commanded by General the Earl of +Albemarle, for the reduction of the wealthy and important +Spanish city of the <em>Havannah</em>, in the island of Cuba<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> +The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Fortieth, Seventy-second, and five +companies of the Ninetieth, were formed in brigade under +Brigadier-General Lord Rollo.</p> + +<p>Proceeding through the Straits of Bahama, the armament +arrived within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th +of June. A landing was effected on the following day, +and the <em>Moro</em> fort, being the key-position of the extensive +works which covered the town, was besieged. This proved +an undertaking of great difficulty; but every obstacle +was overcome by the spirited efforts of the land and sea +forces, and the fort was captured by storm on the 30th of +July. An extensive series of batteries was prepared, and +opened, on the 11th of August, so well-directed a fire on the +works which protected the town, that the guns of the garrison +were soon silenced, and the important city of the Havannah +was surrendered to the British arms. Nine Spanish +men-of-war were delivered up; two were found upon the +stocks; and three sunk at the entrance of the harbour.</p> + +<p>In March of this year Major-General Whitmore, who +was drowned at sea, was succeeded in the colonelcy by +Major-General the Honorable Thomas Gage, from the +Eightieth regiment, a provincial corps which was raised in +1758, and disbanded after the treaty of Fontainebleau.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1763</div> + +<p>At the peace of Fontainebleau the <em>Havannah</em> was restored +to Spain, in exchange for the province of Florida, +on the continent of America; and in 1763 the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment proceeded to <em>West Florida</em>.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1764<br />1765</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in Florida during the year +1764, and in 1765 it was relieved from duty in that +province, and embarked for Great Britain.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1766<br />1770<br />1772<br />1773</div> + +<p>From 1766 to 1769 the regiment was employed at +various stations in England; during the years 1770, +1771, and 1772, it performed duty in Scotland; and in +1773 it proceeded to Ireland.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> + +<div class="sidenote">1775</div> + +<p>While the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were stationed in Ireland +the misunderstanding between the English government +and the British provinces in North America, on the subject +of taxation, was followed by hostilities. The regiment +embarked from Ireland for North America in 1775, and +joined the troops at Boston under General Gage.</p> + +<p>During the night of the 16th of June the Americans +commenced fortifying the heights on the peninsula of +Charlestown, called <em>Bunker's Hill</em>; and on the following +day they were attacked by the flank companies of the +British corps, and by a few regiments, and driven from +their works. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> lost their commanding +officer, Lieut.-Colonel James Abercromby, who +died of his wounds. He was succeeded by Major +James Campbell.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1776</div> + +<p>General Sir William Howe assumed the command of +the British troops in North America, on General Gage +returning to England in October, 1775; in March, 1776, +Boston was vacated, when the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> proceeded +to Nova Scotia.</p> + +<p>From Nova Scotia, the regiment sailed with the expedition +to Staten Island, near New York; and, additional +troops having arrived from Europe, it was formed in +brigade with the Forty-third, Fifty-fourth, and Sixty-third, +under Brigadier-General Francis Smith.</p> + +<p>A landing was effected on <em>Long Island</em> on the 22nd of +August; and on the 27th of that month the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were engaged in driving the Americans from +their positions at <em>Flat Bush</em> to their fortified lines at +<em>Brooklyn</em>. The flank companies had several men killed +and wounded on this occasion; the loss of the battalion +companies was limited to two men.</p> + +<p>The Americans abandoned their lines at Brooklyn, and +passed the river to New York. They were followed by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> +the British, who gained possession of New York, captured +Fort Washington, and reduced a great part of the +Jerseys.</p> + +<p>During the winter the regiment was detached, with +several other corps, under Lieut.-Generals Clinton and +Earl Percy, against <em>Rhode Island</em>. The regiment embarked +on this service in the beginning of December, and +a landing being effected at daybreak on the 9th of that +month, the island was speedily reduced to submission.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1777</div> + +<p>During the year 1777 the regiment was stationed in +Rhode Island. On the 10th of July the American +Colonel, Barton, arrived at Rhode Island with a few active +men, surprised Major-General Richard Prescott in his +quarters, and conveyed him from the island a prisoner.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1778</div> + +<p>In May, 1778, it was ascertained that Major-General +Sullivan had taken the command of the American troops +at Providence, with the view of making a descent on +Rhode Island; and on the night of the 24th of May the +battalion companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, the flank +companies of the Fifty-fourth, and a company of Hessians, +embarked under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +to attack the enemy's quarters. After landing +three miles below <em>Warren</em>, early on the following morning, +a detachment under Captain Seir of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +destroyed a battery at Papasquash Point, making a +Captain and six American artillery men prisoners. Another +detachment destroyed a number of boats, a galley +of six twelve pounders, and two sloops, in the Kickamuct +River. The party then marched to Warren, destroyed a +park of artillery, a quantity of stores, and a privateer +sloop. Afterwards proceeding to Bristol, a further +quantity of stores was destroyed. The Americans assembled +in great numbers, and fired on the British from +a great distance, but did little injury. Lieutenant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> +<span class="smcap">Hamilton</span> of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, eight British, and +four Hessian soldiers were wounded.</p> + +<p>On the 30th of May another detachment, under Major +Eyre of the Fifty-fourth, made a successful incursion to +a creek near Taunton River, and inflicted a severe loss on +the Americans.</p> + +<p>The King of France having united with the Americans, +a French armament arrived off the coast, and formidable +preparations were made for the re-capture of Rhode +Island. The French fleet, however, sustained some +severe losses from a storm, and from the English navy. +A numerous American force under Major-General Sullivan +landed at Howland's Ferry, on the 9th of August, and +commenced the siege of <em>Newport</em>, in defence of which place +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> were employed. The place being defended +with great resolution, and the Americans being disappointed +of aid from the French fleet, they raised the siege, +and retired on the 29th of August. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +Forty-third, and flank companies of the Thirty-eighth and +Fifty-fourth regiments, marched under Brigadier-General +Smith, by the east road, to intercept the retreating +enemy. A stand was made by the Americans, and some +sharp fighting occurred, in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +under Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, highly distinguished +themselves. The Americans were driven from <em>Quakers' +Hill</em>, when they fell back to their works at the north end +of the island, from which they afterwards withdrew. +Major-General Pigot stated in his public despatch,—"To +these particulars I am, in justice, obliged to add +Brigadier-General Smith's report, who, amidst the +general tribute due to the good conduct of every individual +under his command, has particularly distinguished +Lieut.-Colonel <span class="smcap">Campbell</span> and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment, on whom, by their position, the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> +greatest weight of the action fell." The regiment had +eleven rank and file killed; Lieutenant Cleghorn, Ensigns +Bareland, Proctor, and Adam, two serjeants, and forty-eight +rank and file wounded; one man missing.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1779</div> + +<p>The British Commander-in-Chief in North America, +Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, having resolved to +vacate Rhode Island, the regiment embarked from thence +on the 25th of October, 1779, and proceeded to New +York, where it arrived on the 27th of that month.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1780</div> + +<p>During the remainder of the American War the regiment +was stationed at New York and the posts in advance +of that city.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1782</div> + +<p>General the Honorable Thomas Gage was removed +to the Seventeenth Light Dragoons in April, 1782, and +King George III. conferred the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment on Major-General Charles O'Hara, +from captain and lieut.-colonel in the Second foot-guards.</p> + +<p>A letter, dated the 31st of August, 1782, conveyed to +the regiment His Majesty's pleasure that it should be +designated the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, or the <span class="allsmcap">CHESHIRE</span> regiment, +in order that a connexion between the corps and +that county should be cultivated, with the view of promoting +the success of the recruiting service.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1783</div> + +<p>The American War having terminated, the regiment +returned to Europe in 1783 and was stationed in South +Britain.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1785</div> + +<p>In 1785, while the regiment was stationed at Windsor, +under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Crosbie, and +furnished the usual guard at the Castle, where his Majesty +resided, an "<span class="allsmcap">ORDER OF MERIT</span>" was instituted in the corps, +with the view of promoting good order and discipline,—the +field-officers, captains, and adjutant for the time +being, to be members of the order. The order consisted<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> +of <span class="allsmcap">THREE CLASSES</span>: the first wore a silver medal gilt, +suspended to a blue riband two inches broad, and worn +round the neck; the second a silver medal, and the third +a bronze medal, similarly worn. The candidates for the +third class must have served seven years with an unblemished +character; for the second, fourteen; and for +the first, twenty-one years. On the 1st of July, the +<span class="smcap">King</span> was graciously pleased to accept from Lieut.-Colonel +Crosbie a medal of the first class of the regimental <span class="smcap">Order +of Merit</span>: and on the 3rd of that month, the regiment +being then encamped in Windsor Forest, assembled on +parade, with the non-commissioned officers and soldiers +selected to receive medals in front, the rules of the order +were read; the corps presented arms, the band played +"God save the King;" the members of the order took +off their hats, and the commanding officer invested each +member with his medal; the drums beating a point of +war during the whole time.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1787</div> + +<p>In 1787 the regiment proceeded to Guernsey and +Jersey, where its establishment was augmented; and it +was ordered to be held in readiness for foreign service, +in consequence of some revolutionary proceedings in +Holland. In October the regiment proceeded to Portsmouth, +and its establishment was soon afterwards reduced. +Previous to leaving Guernsey, it received the thanks of +the Lieut.-Governor for its excellent conduct.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1788</div> + +<p>On quitting Portsmouth in 1788 for Chatham, the +regiment received a very flattering mark of the high +estimation in which its conduct was held by the inhabitants.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1790</div> + +<p>The regiment left Chatham and Dover in the spring +of 1790, and proceeding to Ireland landed at Cork on +the 5th of April.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1791</div> + +<p>Major-General Charles O'Hara was removed to the +Seventy-fourth Highlanders in April, 1791, and was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> +succeeded in the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +by Major-General David Dundas, Adjutant-General of +the Army in Ireland.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1792</div> + +<p>In 1792, a slight alteration was made in the uniform, +and the establishment was augmented.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1793</div> + +<p>Meanwhile a revolution had taken place in France, +and the violent conduct of the republican government in +that country occasioned a war between Great Britain and +France, which commenced in 1793. In September of +that year the flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment embarked for the West Indies, for the purpose +of taking part in the capture of the French West India +islands. They were followed by the battalion companies +in December.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1794</div> + +<p>The flank companies joined the armament under General +Sir Charles (afterwards Earl) Grey, who effected a landing +at three different points on the island of <em>Martinique</em>, in +February, 1794, and accomplished in a short period the +conquest of that valuable colony.</p> + +<p>The grenadier brigade under His Royal Highness +Prince Edward, afterwards the Duke of Kent, and the +light infantry under Major-General Dundas, were engaged +in the conquest of <em>St. Lucia</em> in the beginning of April.</p> + +<p>After the conquest of St. Lucia, an attack was made on +<em>Guadaloupe</em>, and that valuable island was speedily rescued +from the power of the republican government of France.</p> + +<p>The regiment proceeded to the island of Martinique, +where it was joined by the flank companies.</p> + +<p>Two hundred men, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel +Lysaght, proceeded to the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>, and +formed part of the garrison of Cape St. Nicholas Mole: +and five companies joined the garrison of <em>Busy-town</em>, +which place was besieged by the enemy.</p> + +<p>In April, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, Twenty-third, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> +Forty-first regiments, with some other troops, embarked +under the command of Brigadier-General John Whyte, +for the attack of <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, the capital of the French +possessions in the island of <em>St. Domingo</em>. A landing was +effected on the 31st of May; some severe fighting occurred, +in which the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished themselves: +<em>Fort Bizzotton</em> was captured, and the enemy was +forced to abandon <em>Port-au-Prince</em>, which was taken possession +of by the British troops. The regiment had +Captain Wallace killed on this occasion, also several +private soldiers killed and wounded. Unfortunately a +malignant fever broke out in the town, and the British +lost forty officers and six hundred soldiers by disease +within two months after the capture of the place.</p> + +<p>A detachment of the regiment formed part of the +garrison of <em>Fort Bizzotton</em>, which was attacked by two +thousand of the enemy on the 5th of December. The +British defended their post with great gallantry, and +repulsed the assailants. Lieutenant Hamilton of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> distinguished himself.</p> + +<p>Another portion of the regiment was stationed at +Jeremie, and a detachment at Irois.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1795</div> + +<p>Having sustained severe loss from the climate of St. +Domingo, the regiment was relieved from duty at that +island, and returned to England in 1795.</p> + +<p>Lieut.-General Dundas was removed to the Seventh +Light Dragoons, and the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +was conferred on Major-General William Crosbie, from +the Eighty-ninth regiment.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1798</div> + +<p>The regiment was stationed in England recruiting its +ranks until December, 1798, when it proceeded to Guernsey.</p> + +<p>Major-General Crosbie died this year, and was succeeded +by Major-General John Graves Simcoe, from the +Eighty-first regiment.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1799</div> + +<p>In November, 1799, the regiment was withdrawn from +Guernsey, and landed at Portsmouth on the 15th of that +month.</p> + +<p>On its return from the West Indies, the regiment +enlisted a number of boys, or youths; and in 1798 it +received drafts of boys, or lads, from other corps; it was +designated a boy regiment, and sent to the Cape of Good +Hope, where the youths, it was conjectured, would be +gradually accustomed to a warm climate, and become +better adapted for service in the East Indies, than recruits +sent direct from Europe to India.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1800</div> + +<p>In January and February, 1800, the regiment embarked +for the Cape of Good Hope, where it arrived in +May and June following. The companies on board of +one transport, the Surat Castle, suffered severely in consequence +of their crowded state: the crew was composed +of Lascars, among whom much disease prevailed; the +infection was communicated to the soldiers, and the men +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> suffered in their health; sixty +soldiers were sent on shore, to a general hospital, before +the ship left England. The survivors arrived at the Cape +in a sickly state; they had been obliged to aid in working +the vessel during the voyage, and the masts and rigging +had been damaged during a gale of wind.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1801</div> + +<p>The head-quarters were established at Muisenberg, +and afterwards encamped at Wynberg, a tongue of land +projecting from the east side of Table Mountain. The +sick men received every attention which could be procured +by Major-General Francis Dundas, commanding at the +Cape, and as they recovered they joined the head-quarters, +which were removed to Simon's-town in January, 1801, +and again encamped at Wynberg in March. In May +the regiment marched into Cape Town, and in September +joined the camp at Rondebosch.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> + +<p>The lads having become much improved in size and +strength, the light infantry company joined the flank +battalion; and the grenadiers were detached to the interior, +and stationed at Graaff Reinett.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1802</div> + +<p>Leaving the camp in January, 1802, the regiment was +removed to Muisenberg, Simon's-town, and Graaff Reinett.</p> + +<p>The period having arrived for the regiment to proceed +to India, it was joined by a number of volunteers from +corps serving at the Cape of Good Hope, and embarked +from thence in September, October, and November, when +it mustered thirty-one officers, and one thousand and +fifty-five non-commissioned officers and soldiers fit for +duty.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1803</div> + +<p>In February, 1803, the last division of the regiment +landed at Fort William, Calcutta, where the other companies +had previously arrived.</p> + +<p>At this period two powerful chieftains, Dowlat Rao +Scindia and Jeswunt Rao Holkar, had usurped the powers +of the Peishwa, and were desolating the Mahratta states +with war; and these two chiefs, with the Rajah of Berar, +formed a confederacy against the British and their allies. +Under these circumstances the flank companies of the +regiment embarked from Fort William, and joined the +field force, under Lieut.-Colonel Harcourt, assembled for +the attack of the province of Cuttack. On entering that +province, the troops had to overcome numerous difficulties +from the nature of the country, the season of the year, +and the resistance of the enemy, which they surmounted +with great gallantry.</p> + +<p>On the 4th of October, the flank companies of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment highly distinguished themselves +at the capture of the fort of <em>Barrabatta</em> by storm, when +they led the assault, and took several of the enemy's colours. +They had one man killed; Captain Harlston and eight<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> +soldiers wounded. The colours captured by the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +with some others taken by the Ninth and Nineteenth +Native Infantry, were publicly displayed at +Calcutta, and afterwards lodged at Fort William, with +an inscription of the names of the corps by which taken.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1804</div> + +<p>The flank companies of the regiment remained in the +field, and the splendid successes of the British arms appeared +likely to bring about a speedy termination of the +war; but hostilities were protracted by the defection of the +Rajah of Bhurtpore. The flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +joined the army under Lord Lake: they had two +men killed and three wounded at the capture of <em>Deeg</em>, in +December, and were engaged in the attempt to bring the +refractory Rajah Sing to submission by the siege of the +strong fortress of Bhurtpore.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1805</div> + +<p>In the meantime, the regiment had commenced its +march from Fort William, for the Upper provinces, and +in January, 1805, it halted and encamped at Benares; +but resumed its march in February, and proceeded to +Cawnpore.</p> + +<p>The siege of <em>Bhurtpore</em> was carried on, and the flank +companies were engaged in the unsuccessful attempt to +capture that place by storm on the 9th of January, when +they had eleven men killed and twenty-four wounded. +They were also engaged in the desperate attempt to +capture the place by storm, on the 21st of January, when +they had Captain Menzies and four men killed; Captains +Lindsay and McNight, Lieutenants Mansergh, Sweetman, +and Caswell, and thirty-one non-commissioned officers and +soldiers, wounded. At the third unsuccessful attack, on +the 21st of February, they had two serjeants and three +soldiers killed; three serjeants and four soldiers wounded.</p> + +<p>Serjeant John Ship, of the regiment, led the forlorn +hope on each occasion, and his gallant conduct was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> +rewarded with the commission of ensign in the Sixty-fifth +regiment.</p> + +<p>Rajah Sing submitted, and concluded a treaty of peace +with the British: the army withdrew from Bhurtpore, +and the surviving officers and soldiers of the flank companies +joined the regiment at Cawnpore, in June.</p> + +<p>Holkar continued his resistance to the British authority, +and Scindia evinced a disposition to renew hostilities. +These events occasioned the regiment to quit Cawnpore, +in October, to pursue the army of Holkar, who was driven +from place to place, until the British troops arrived at the +banks of the Hyphasis, or Sutlej, where he submitted, and +a treaty of peace was concluded in December. Scindia +also concluded a second treaty, and the British power and +influence in India were thus augmented and consolidated.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1806</div> + +<p>From the banks of the Sutlej, the regiment marched +to Delhi, where it arrived in February, 1806, and in +March it was removed to Muttra, where it received the +thanks of General Lord Lake, and of the Governor-General +in Council, for its conduct during the war.</p> + +<p>On the 30th of October, General Simcoe, who died in +1806, was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by +Lieut.-General Sir James Henry Craig, from the Eighty-sixth +foot.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1807</div> + +<p>Leaving Muttra in July, 1807, the regiment proceeded +to Berhampore, where it arrived on the 7th of August.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1809</div> + +<p>Major-General the Honorable Edward Finch was appointed +colonel of the regiment on the 18th of September, +1809, from the Fifty-fourth foot, in succession to Sir +James Henry Craig, K.B., removed to the Seventy-eighth +Highlanders.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1810</div> + +<p>The regiment remained at Berhampore until August, +1810, when it embarked in boats, and proceeded to Fort +William, in order to form part of the expedition against<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> +the <em>Mauritius</em>, under Major-General the Honorable J. +Abercromby. A landing was effected in the bay of +Mapou, on the 29th of November, without opposition, +and on the following day the troops advanced towards the +capital; being exposed to severe heat, and unable to +procure water, the soldiers became exhausted, and arriving +at the powder-mills, five miles from Port Louis, they halted +near the stream. Resuming the march on the 1st of +December, the troops were opposed by the enemy in +force, and some sharp fighting occurred, in which the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> took part and had several men wounded. +The French were driven from their ground, and they +fell back upon Port Louis; the British took post in front +of the position occupied by the French. Being unable to +withstand the valour and discipline of the invading army, +the governor, General de Caen, surrendered the island to +the British arms.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1811</div> + +<p>After the capture of the Mauritius, the regiment was +stationed a short time at that island, and in January it +sent a detachment of five officers and seventy men to Tamatave, +in the Island of Madagascar. In March and April +the regiment was removed to the island of Bourbon, where +it was joined by the survivors of the detachment from +Madagascar, reduced in number, by disease, to two officers +and twenty-five men: they had been made prisoners by +the enemy, and re-captured by the British ships of war.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1812<br />1813</div> + +<p>In July, 1812, the regiment returned to the Mauritius; +but again proceeded to Bourbon, in August, and was +removed to the Mauritius a second time in May, 1813.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1814<br />1815</div> + +<p>A number of men having volunteered from the militia +to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, His Royal Highness +the Prince Regent was pleased to approve of a <em>second +battalion</em> being formed, and it was placed on the establishment +of the army on the 10th of February, 1814. +The war in Europe being terminated soon afterwards, by<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> +the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the restoration +of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne of France, the second +battalion was disbanded at Chester, on the 24th of October, +transferring the men fit for duty to the first battalion, +which they joined at the Mauritius, in April, 1815, in so +good a state, as to be specially noticed in general orders, +and Captain Thomas Poole, commanding the party, +received the thanks of the governor.</p> + +<p>On the 1st of June, 1815, the rifle company of the first +battalion of the Twelfth regiment, together with the first +battalion of the Eighty-seventh regiment, and the flank +companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, were formed +into a field brigade, and on the 16th of June embarked +from the Mauritius to join the army in Bengal. The +troops arrived at Bengal on the 2nd and 3rd of August; +re-embarked on the 23rd of September, and landed at +the Mauritius on the 14th of November, 1815. The +light company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, while +on passage to Bengal, was wrecked in the Straits between +Ceylon and the opposite continent. The conduct of the +flank companies, while in India, was highly commended +in general orders issued before they embarked from Fort +William,—on their return to the Mauritius.</p> + +<p>While the flank companies were thus employed, the remainder +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment was placed +under canvas at Pamplemousse, seven miles from Port +Louis, as it was suffering severely from a prevailing disease +at the Mauritius. There being but a small force +left on the island, and this reduced in numbers and efficiency +by disease, a meditated insurrection had nearly attained +an outbreak, but for timely information.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1819</div> + +<p>The regiment occupied various stations at the Mauritius, +under the command of Colonel Dalrymple, until July, +1819, when it embarked for England. Previous to quitting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> +the island it was inspected by Major-General Ralph +Darling, who expressed, in general orders, his admiration +of its appearance, and of its excellent conduct while +serving under his command.</p> + +<p>Though the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> had participated in the +capture of the Mauritius, the French inhabitants of the +island presented a large and handsome gold snuff-box to +the regiment on its embarkation for England, bearing +this inscription, "<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Aux Officiers du 22 Régiment de S. M.—Souvenir +des Habitans de l'île Maurice</i>; 1819;" thus +testifying their good feeling, and appreciation of the orderly +and soldierlike conduct of the corps during its +service of nine years in the colony.</p> + +<p>After landing at Gosport, in November and December, +the regiment marched to Northampton, under the orders +of Colonel Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.B.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1821</div> + +<p>In the Autumn of 1821 the regiment marched to +Liverpool, where it embarked on the 9th of October, for +Ireland. Having landed at Dublin on the 10th of October, +the regiment marched to Buttevant, with detachments at +Mallow, Bantyre, Charleville, Newmarket, and Ballyclough.</p> + +<p>Some changes of quarters afterwards took place in +consequence of the riotous and violent proceedings of the +misguided peasantry at this part of the country, and the +disposition evinced to violate the law.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1822</div> + +<p>On the evening of the 25th of January, 1822, three +thousand men assembled with such arms as they could +procure, for an attack on Newmarket; and they were +repulsed, with severe loss, by thirty men of the regiment, +under Captain Thomas Keappock and Lieutenant Samuel +Green, who received the expression of the approbation of +His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief, +and were presented with a silver cup, by the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> +noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of the town and +vicinity of Newmarket,—"In testimony of the high sense +entertained of their gallant conduct in attacking and +defeating an armed body of three thousand insurgents, +with thirty men."</p> + +<p>A reinforcement was sent to Newmarket, and the +regiment performed many marches, and much extra +duty, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1823<br />1824</div> + +<p>The head-quarters of the regiment were stationed at +Buttevant during the year 1823, and the first nine months +of 1824; and the state of the regiment was repeatedly +commended in orders by the General Officers who made +the half-yearly inspections.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1826</div> + +<p>In October, 1824, the regiment marched to Dublin; it +was subsequently stationed in Galway, and in the summer +of 1826 it was divided into six service and four depôt +companies, in order that the former might proceed on +foreign service.</p> + +<p>The service companies embarked from Cork in November +and December, in three divisions, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James Steuart, and +Captain Thomas Poole, and the last division arrived at +the island of Jamaica in February, 1827.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1827</div> + +<p>The service companies suffered severely from the effects +of the climate of Jamaica; in September and October, +1827, they lost three officers, seventeen serjeants, and one +hundred and twenty men, from fever; the total loss during +the first year was Lieut.-Colonel P. C. Taylor, Major James +Steuart, Captain William Norton, Lieutenant Edward +Gordon, Ensign E. T. Evans, Paymaster R. Barlow, Adjutant +William Potenger, and one hundred and seventy-two +non-commissioned officers and soldiers.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1828<br />1829</div> + +<p>In the following year the losses were much less numerous; +and in April, 1829, Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Falconar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> +arrived and assumed the command. In June of the same +year, the regiment received the thanks of the civil authorities +for the prompt assistance rendered in extinguishing +an alarming fire in the vicinity of Spanish Town.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1830</div> + +<p>On the 7th of June, 1830, the depôt companies embarked +from Cork for South Britain, where they were +stationed until the summer of 1836, when they embarked +from Liverpool for Ireland, and landed at Dublin.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1831</div> + +<p>The regiment was employed in suppressing a formidable +insurrection among the slaves in Jamaica in the +winter of 1831-2; the two flank companies were +encamped on the scene of the insurrection in the following +winter, and when the regiment left Falmouth, in +Jamaica, in the latter part of the year 1833, the thanks +of the custos and magistrates were awarded to the corps +for its good conduct.<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p> + +<div class="sidenote">1837</div> + +<p>The service companies performed duty at the island of +Jamaica until the beginning of 1837, when they commenced +embarking for Europe, and landed at Cork in +March and April; they were afterwards joined by the +depôt companies.</p> + +<div class="sidenotex">1838<br />1839<br />1840</div> + +<p>The regiment remained in Ireland during the years +1838 and 1839; and embarking from Dublin on the 19th +of December, 1840, landed at Liverpool on the 21st of +that month.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1841</div> + +<p>The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, having been selected<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> +to proceed to India, embarked from Gravesend in January, +1841, and landed at Bombay in May following. It afterwards +proceeded to Poonah, where an encampment was +formed, and the regiment was stationed there during the +remainder of the year.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1842</div> + +<p>In the following year the regiment quitted the camp +at Poonah by divisions, and proceeding to the country of +Scinde, was encamped some time near Kurrachee. The +regiment was encamped in two separate divisions at +Kurrachee, as cholera had broken out violently in its +ranks, from which it suffered severely, and during its +prevalence a field-officer's detachment, under Major Poole, +consisting of two companies, was ordered to proceed by +the Indus, in the month of April, 1842, to Sukkur, in +Upper Scinde, previously to the withdrawal of the British +force from Beloochistan.</p> + +<p>The navigation of the Indus had been acquired by the +British in 1839, and application was made to the Ameers, +who governed the country, for a portion of land on the banks +of the river. This they agreed to give; but at the same +time meditated the destruction of the British power in the +country by treachery. The <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> quitted the +camp at Kurrachee in November, and proceeded up the +country.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1843</div> + +<p>The regiment formed part of the force assembled under +Major-General Sir Charles Napier, and was employed in +the destruction of the fort of <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, in the desert, +on the 14th and 15th of January, 1843.</p> + +<p>Major-General W. F. P. Napier, in his work entitled +"<em>The Conquest of Scinde</em>," has given, with his characteristic +eloquence, the following spirited description of the +march to <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, a march which His Grace the +Duke of Wellington described in the House of Lords, "<em>as +one of the most curious military feats he had ever known to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> +be performed, or had ever perused an account of in his life. +Sir Charles Napier</em> (added His Grace) <em>moved his troops +through the desert against hostile forces; he had his guns +transported under circumstances of extreme difficulty, and +in a manner the most extraordinary; and he cut off a retreat +of the enemy which rendered it impossible for them ever to +regain their positions</em>."</p> + +<p>"It was a wild and singular country, the wilderness +through which they (the Anglo-Indian troops) were +passing. The sand-hills stretched north and south for +hundreds of miles in parallel ridges, rounded at top, and +most symmetrically plaited, like the ripple on the sea-shore +after a placid tide. Varying in their heights, +their breadth and steepness, they presented one uniform +surface, but while some were only a mile broad, others +were more than ten miles across; some were of gentle +slopes and low, others lofty, and so steep that the +howitzers could only be dragged up by men. The +sand was mingled with shells, and ran in great streams +resembling numerous rivers, skirted on each side by +parallel streaks of soil, which nourished jungle, yet +thinly and scattered. The tracks of the hyena and +wild boar, and the prints of small deer's footsteps, were +sometimes seen at first, but they soon disappeared, and +then the solitude of the waste was unbroken.</p> + +<p>"For eight days these intrepid soldiers traversed this +gloomy region, living from hand to mouth, uncertain +each morning if water could be found in the evening; +and many times it was not found. They were not even +sure of their right course; yet with fiery valour and +untiring strength, they continued their dreary dangerous +way. The camels found very little food, and got weak, +but the stout infantry helped to drag the heavy howitzers +up the sandy steeps; and all the troops, despising<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> +the danger of an attack from the Beloochees, worked +with a power and will that overcame every obstacle. +On the eighth day they reached <em>Emaum Ghur</em>, eager +to strike and storm, and then was seen how truly laid +down is Napoleon's great maxim, that moral force is in +war to physical force, as four to one. Mahomed Khan, +with a strong fortress well provided, and having a garrison +six times as numerous as the band coming to +assail him, had fled with his treasure two days before; +taking a southerly direction, he regained the Indus by +tracks with which his people were well acquainted, +leaving all his stores of grain and powder behind."</p> + +<p>As Emaum Ghur could only serve as a stronghold in +which the Beloochees might be able to resist British +supremacy, Major-General Sir Charles Napier determined +upon destroying the fortress. It was a place of great +strength, and was constructed of unburnt bricks, into +which the shot easily penetrates, but brings nothing +down, so that recourse was had to mining. The place +was full of gunpowder and grain, and the former was +employed in blowing up the fortress, which was effected +on the 15th of January.</p> + +<p>After this difficult and harassing service, the troops +returned triumphant on the 23rd of January, to Peer-Abu-Bekr, +where Major-General Sir Charles Napier reunited +his whole army. It is to be observed that the +march was performed without the loss of a man, or without +even a sick soldier, and the Ameers' troops were dispersed, +and their plan of campaign frustrated.</p> + +<p>A treaty of peace was signed by the Ameers on the +14th of February: directions were sent to the British +political resident, Major Outram, by the Ameers, to +quit <em>Hyderabad</em>, the capital, and before this was complied +with, <em>eight thousand</em> Beloochees, commanded by several<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span> +Ameers in person, attempted to force an entrance into +the enclosure of the British residency. The light company +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, mustering <em>one +hundred</em> men, under Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenant +F. P. Harding, and Ensign R. Pennefather, was the only +force at the residency, the enclosure of which was surrounded +by a wall from four to five feet high. The gallant +officers and soldiers of this company kept the eight +thousand Scindian troops, with six pieces of artillery, at +bay nearly four hours; and when their ammunition was +nearly expended, they retreated to the river, with Major +Outram, and embarking on board of two steam-vessels, +joined the troops under Major-General Sir Charles +Napier, at Hala. The light company had two men killed +and four wounded on this occasion.</p> + +<p>The Ameers having thus commenced hostilities, assembled +a numerous force to destroy the few British +troops in the country. Major-General Sir Charles Napier, +trusting to the valour of the troops under his orders, +advanced to meet the enemy. On the 17th of February, +<em>twenty-two thousand</em> Scindian troops were discovered in +position behind the bank of a river at <em>Meeanee</em>. The +British, mustering <em>two thousand eight hundred</em> men, advanced +in <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">echelon</i> of regiments to attack their numerous +opponents, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, commanded by +Lieut.-Colonel J. L. Pennefather, had the honor to lead +the attack. A numerous body of Beloochees discharged +their matchlocks and pistols at the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and +then rushed forward sword in hand to close upon the +British line; but these bold and skilful swordsmen went +down under the superior power of the musket and bayonet.</p> + +<p>After a severe contest the Scindian army was defeated, +and, on the day following the victory, six of the Ameers +delivered their swords to the British General upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> +field of battle. The Beloochees lost five thousand men, +and all their guns, ammunition, and treasure were taken, +together with their camp and standards. On the 20th of +February, the British colours waved in triumph over the +fortress of <em>Hyderabad</em>.</p> + +<p>In Major-General Napier's admirable work on "<cite>The +Conquest of Scinde</cite>," is given the following spirited and +picturesque description of the battle of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p> + +<p>"The Ameers' right was found to be strengthened and +covered by the village of Kattree, which was filled with +men; that flank offered no weak point. But in the +Shikargah on their left the General instantly detected +a flaw. It has been before said this Shikargah was +covered by a wall, having only one opening, not very +wide, through which it was evident the Beloochees +meant to pour out on the flank and rear of the advancing +British line. The General rode near this wall, +and found it was nine or ten feet high; he rode nearer, +and marked it had no loop-holes for the enemy to +shoot through; he rode into the opening under a play +of matchlocks, and, looking behind the wall, saw there +was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochees to fire over +the top. Then the inspiration of genius came to the +aid of heroism. Taking a company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, +he thrust them at once into the opening, telling +their brave Captain, Tew, that he was to block up that +entrance; to die there, if it must be,—never to give way! +And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders: he +died there, but the opening was defended. The great +disparity of numbers was thus abated, and the action +of six thousand men paralysed by the more skilful +action of only eighty! It was, on a smaller scale as to +numbers, a stroke of generalship like that which won +Blenheim for the Duke of Marlborough.</p> + +<div class="figcenter illowp59" id="PL_2" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_b_032fp.jpg" alt="" /> + <div class="caption">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT. + </div> +</div> +<p class="pfs70">FOR CANNON'S MILITARY RECORDS.</p> +<p class="fs70 pad4"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> + +<p>"Now the advancing troops, in echelon of regiments, +approached the enemy's front. The British +right passed securely under the wall of the Shikargah, +cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling +sound of Tew's musketry. * * * * Meanwhile the +dead level of the plain was swept by the Beloochee +cannon and matchlocks, which were answered from +time to time by Lloyd's batteries, yet not frequently, for +rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to +close with their unseen foes. When the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +had got within a hundred yards of the high +sloping bank of the Fulaillee, they threw their fire at +the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochees +could be just seen, bending with fiery glances over +the levelled matchlocks, and the voice of the General, +shrill and clear, was heard along the line, commanding +the charge.</p> + +<p>"Then rose the British shout; the English guns were +run forward into position, the infantry closed upon the +Fulaillee with a run, and rushed up the sloping bank. +The Beloochees, having their matchlocks laid ready in +rest along the summit, waited until the assailants were +within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered; the +rapid pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope +on the inside, deceived their aim, and the execution +was not great; the next moment the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear down all +before them, but they staggered back in amazement +at the forest of swords waving in their front! Thick +as standing corn, and gorgeous as a field of flowers, +stood the Beloochees in their many-coloured garments +and turbans; they filled the broad deep bed of the +Fulaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered +the plain beyond. Guarding their heads with their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> +large dark shields, they shook their sharp swords, +beaming in the sun, their shouts rolled like a peal of +thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed forwards, +and full against the front of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +dashed with demoniac strength and ferocity. But with +shouts as loud, and shrieks as wild and fierce as theirs, +and hearts as big, and arms as strong, the Irish soldiers +met them with that queen of weapons the musket, and +sent their foremost masses rolling back in blood."</p> + +<p>The following extracts from the despatch of Major-General +Sir Charles Napier testify the part borne by the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> in the victory of <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>:—</p> + +<p>"Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was severely +wounded as with the high courage of a soldier he +led his regiment (<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>) up the desperate +bank of the Fulaillee. Major Wyllie, Captains +Tucker and Conway, Lieutenants Harding and +Phayre, were all wounded, while gloriously animating +their men to sustain the shock of numbers."</p> + +<p>"Captains Meade, Tew, and Cookson, with Lieutenant +Wood, all fell honorably, urging on the assault with +unmitigated valour.</p> + +<p>"Major Poole, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, and Captain +Jackson of the Twenty-fifth native infantry, who succeeded +to the command of those regiments, proved +themselves worthy of their dangerous posts.</p> + +<p>"The Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, +Lieutenant McMurdo, of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +had his horse killed, and, while on foot leading +some soldiers in <ins class="corr" id="tn-34" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'a deperate dash'"> +a desperate dash</ins> down the enemy's side of the bank, he cut down a Chieftain. He has +greatly assisted me by his activity and zeal during the +whole of our operations.</p> + +<p>"Innumerable are the individual acts of intrepidity<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span> +which took place between our soldiers and their +opponents, too numerous for detail in this despatch, yet +well meriting a record."</p> + +<p>In the <span class="allsmcap">NOTIFICATION</span> of the Right Honorable Lord +Ellenborough, the Governor-General of India, it was +directed,</p> + +<p>"That the unserviceable guns, taken at Hyderabad, +shall be sent to Bombay, and there cast into a triumphal +column, whereon shall be inscribed in the English, and +two native languages, the names of Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B., and of the several officers +mentioned by His Excellency in his despatch, and +likewise the names of the several officers, non-commissioned +officers, and privates mentioned in the reports, +that thus the names may be for ever recorded of those +who, at <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, obtained for themselves that glory in +the field, which is the reward dearest to a true soldier."</p> + +<p>Major Poole, commanding the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +in consequence of Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather +having been severely wounded, stated in his report, +respecting the soldiers of the regiment under his command, +who had distinguished themselves in the battle of +Meeanee, "that the officers generally assert that they +feel difficulty in making selections, where the conduct +of every man of their companies was so satisfactory. +In so general a field of action and persevering exertion, +I equally feel at a loss where to draw a distinction; +but it may be proper to mention the names of Private +James O'Neill, of the light company, who took a +standard whilst we were actively engaged with the +enemy, and drummer Martin Delaney, who shot, +bayoneted, and captured the arms of Meer Whullee +Mahomed Khan, who was mounted, and directing the +enemy in the hottest part of the engagement."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> + +<p>The loss of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment at the battle +of Meeanee was, Captain J. McLeod Tew,<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> one serjeant, +and twenty-two rank and file killed; Lieut.-Colonel J. L. +Pennefather, Captain T. S. Conway, Lieutenants W. M. +G. McMurdo and F. P. Harding, Ensigns R. Pennefather +and H. Bowden, one serjeant, one corporal, and +fifty privates wounded.</p> + +<p>The whole of the Ameers did not submit, and the Chiefs +who continued to resist assembled an army, which was +commanded by Meer Shere Mahomed. The British advanced +from <em>Hyderabad</em> at daybreak on the morning of +the 24th of March, and about half-past eight o'clock +twenty thousand Scindian troops were discovered in order +of battle behind a nullah. Arrangements were immediately +made for commencing the action, and the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment led the attack in gallant style. Major +John Poole commanded the brigade, and Captain F. D. +George the regiment, and, stimulated by the heroic +example of these officers, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> advanced +steadily against the enemy's left, exposed to a heavy fire +of matchlocks, without returning a shot, until they arrived +within forty paces of the entrenchment, when they stormed +the position occupied by the Beloochees with that determined +bravery which has ever distinguished British +soldiers. Lieutenant Henry J. Coote first mounted the +rampart, seized one of the enemy's standards, and was +severely wounded while in the act of waving it, and cheering +on his men; Lieutenant C. T. Powell seized another +standard; and the soldiers, being encouraged by the gallant<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> +example of their officers, displayed that heroism which +adorns the British military character. Privates J. Doherty, +C. Lynar, E. Jobin, J. McCartin, J. Walmsley, G. +Roberts, E. Watson and J. Oakley, shot the defenders, +and then captured fourteen standards, and made five +prisoners. Privates S. Cowen, S. Alder, and G. Banbury +also captured standards; and Corporal Tim. Kelly shot +one of the Scindians, and took from him a silver-knobbed +standard. The Beloochee infantry and artillery fought +well, but were unable, although greatly superior in +numbers, to resist the determined attack of disciplined +soldiers.</p> + +<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier stated in his public +despatch, "The battle was decided by the troop of Horse +Artillery, and Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment.</p> + +<p>"Of Lieutenant McMurdo's abilities as Acting Assistant +Quartermaster-General, I cannot speak too +highly; and regret to say, he has received a sabre +wound from a Beloochee, the third that he cut down in +single combat during the day.</p> + +<p>"To the commanders of brigades and regiments, and +the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates +under their command, I have to return my thanks for +their valiant bearing in the action."</p> + +<p>The loss of the enemy was very great, and eleven +pieces of cannon were taken in position on the nullah, +together with seventeen standards. The Beloochee force +was completely defeated, and their commander, Meer Shere +Mahomed, fled to the desert.<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> Among the killed was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> +the great promoter of the war, Hoche Mahomed Seedee. +Twenty-three rank and file of the regiment were killed +on this occasion; Lieutenants Thomas Chute, Henry J. +Coote, H. A. G. Evans, and John Brennan, Ensign +Richard Pennefather, six serjeants, one drummer, four +corporals, and one hundred and twenty-three privates +wounded. At the battle of Hyderabad, the regiment +mustered only five hundred and sixty-two rank and file; +the remainder being sick and convalescent, having been +left at Sukkur in Upper Scinde.</p> + +<p>As a mark of Royal approbation for these victories, +Her Majesty, on the 4th of July, 1843, was pleased to appoint +Major-General Sir Charles James Napier a Knight +Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of +the Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather,<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span> +Poole, Brevet Majors Frederick George, +and Thomas Conway, were also nominated Companions +of the Bath, and their brevet rank was dated from the +above period.</p> + +<p>Her Majesty was also graciously pleased to command +that a medal should be conferred upon the Officers, Non-commissioned +Officers, and Soldiers engaged in the battles +of Meeanee and Hyderabad.</p> + +<p>On the 18th of August, 1843, the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +received the Royal authority to bear upon the regimental +or second colour, and on the appointments, the word +"<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," in commemoration of its distinguished gallantry +in the campaign against the Ameers of that +country, during the early part of the year 1843.</p> + +<p>Her Majesty, on the 2nd of July, 1844, conferred +increased honor on the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, by authorising +the corps to bear on the regimental colour and appointments, +in addition to the word "<span class="smcap">Scinde</span>," the words +"<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>" and "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>," in commemoration of +the distinguished gallantry displayed in the general +engagements fought at those places respectively, on the +17th of February, and 24th of March, 1843.</p> + +<p>On the 12th of February, 1844, the thanks of Parliament +were voted to Major-General Sir Charles Napier, +G.C.B., and to the troops under his command, "<em>for the +eminent skill, energy, and gallantry, displayed by him in +the recent military operations in</em> <span class="smcap">Scinde</span>, <em>particularly in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> +the two decisive battles of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>;" +to the several officers serving under Sir Charles Napier, +"<em>for their unwearied zeal and conspicuous gallantry</em>;" and +to the troops, "<em>for their brave and meritorious conduct</em>."</p> + +<p>Major-General Sir Charles Napier, on presenting the +regiments at Kurrachee with the Medals conferred on them +for their gallantry in this campaign, addressed the soldiers +as follows:—</p> + +<p>"Soldiers! the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em> is among those of +which history will speak as proving the superiority of +<em>discipline</em> over numbers; and it is well, Soldiers! that we +should dwell upon these things; that we may understand +how Medals are won, and why they are bestowed.</p> + +<p>"Had we been without discipline, valour alone would +not have won the victories of <em>Meeanee</em> and <em>Hyderabad</em>! +Valour is like the <em>Strength</em> of a man, Discipline is like +his <em>Mind</em>, that directs his strength to effective exertion. +If two pugilists have a boxing-match, and one strikes +at random, while the other boxes with science, planting +every blow home, we know how the fight must be soon +decided. So it is with two armies,—the one disciplined, +the other without discipline. The General of the disciplined +Army directs his columns upon that part of the +enemy's position which he deems to be the weakest; as +the mind of the boxer directs his blow against the opening +offered by his unskilful enemy. But this is not all,—obedience +to orders (which is discipline) enables us to +bring up all the necessary provisions of war to the day +and to the hour; thus food and ammunition are at hand +to support the blow of battle, just as the shoulder and +the body are thrown forward to support and give vigour +to the blow of the pugilist. But not only is valour +useless without discipline, but it is even dangerous; +for without discipline the rashly brave would run<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span> +heedlessly against the enemy, the cautious would seek +'vantage ground, and the timid would retreat. Thus +the Army would be scattered: but when an Army is +disciplined, the ponderous charges of Cavalry, the steady +tramp of the advancing Infantry, preparing to charge +with a mighty shout, and the rolling thunder of Artillery +pouring forth its iron shower, all combine simultaneously +to strike and overthrow the enemy. Thus, Soldiers, +are Medals won, more by discipline than by any extraordinary +efforts of individual courage. To reward +this obedience medals are bestowed, so that every man +who wears this honoured badge is known to the world +as one who, in the midst of the noise, the danger, and +confusion of battle, had obeyed orders, and performed +the three great duties of a Soldier—first, not to fire +without orders; next, when he does fire, to level low, so +as to make sure of striking down an enemy; thirdly, to +keep his rank and dress upon his colours. The Medal +tells the world that he has bravely done these things, +and no man can walk with one of these Medals on his +breast without feeling the conscious pride of an intrepid +Soldier! His caste may be high caste, or it may be +low caste, but the Soldier, who bears on his breast a +medal won in battle, is above all the castes in the world. +The pleasure of giving you these Medals, Soldiers of +the 12th Regiment (Native Infantry), is indeed great to +me. I saw your valiant conduct, and I rejoice in distributing +the reward which you honorably earned, and my +satisfaction is increased by the presence of so large a +body of Europeans, for it affords me an opportunity of +saying to my countrymen that they will find these swarthy +warriors of the East <ins class="corr" id="tn-41" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'stanch and true'"> +staunch and true</ins> in action as they were at Meeanee and Hyderabad, when they followed +the example set them by the glorious <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></span> +regiment. They will fight to the last drop of their blood, +and stand or fall by the side of their European comrades. +If the Almighty so wills it, that in these eventful times, +War should again arise, and that I am once more permitted +to lead an Army into the field, I should go into +action with perfect confidence in the courage of the +Native Troops. I speak of what I know of their gallantry, +not from what I hear, but from what I have seen, and +from my own knowledge, of their daring courage.</p> + +<p>"Here I must address myself in a more direct manner +to the Officers now before me, and in justice to them +say, that their conduct, and the conduct of all the British +Officers in these two battles, was very noble. For several +hours the two lines were fighting close to each other, +and as I cast my eye along the field, I everywhere saw +the British Officers display their worthiness as Military +leaders, and with unflinching intrepidity animating their +Soldiers to battle! To them, therefore, I will now first +distribute these honorable decorations."</p> + +<p>The Governor then dismounted, and advancing to the +line of officers of several regiments, and who had not +before received their medals, his Excellency presented +each with the Medal,—the bands playing "God save the +Queen."</p> + +<p>On giving that which belonged to Lieutenant Marston, +of the 25th N. I., the General observed,—"But for you, +Marston, I probably should not have had this pleasure;" +alluding to this Officer having intrepidly thrown himself +in front of his General when attacked by a Beloochee +Chief, whom the Lieutenant cut down ere he could reach +the General.</p> + +<p>On the 18th of April the regiment left Hyderabad, and +proceeded to Kurrachee, where the right wing and head-quarters +embarked on the 27th of April, and sailed to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span> +Bombay. Previously to the embarkation of the regiment +for Bombay, the following order was issued by Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, Governor of Scinde:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="right">"<em>27th April, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment!</p> + +<p> "You well know why I send you to Bombay, and +you also know how much I dislike doing so. But nothing +shall stand in the way of your health and well-being, +that I have the power to remove. Cut up by +Disease and by Battle, you require rest, that you may +again join us, and add to the Laurels with which you are +already decorated.</p> + +<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br /> +<em>Governor</em>."</p> +</div> + +<p>The reception of the regiment at Bombay, on the 2nd +of May, was distinguished by high marks of honor, by +command of the Governor, on which occasion the accompanying +order was issued:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="right">"<em>Bombay, Monday, 1st May, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="smcap">Garrison Orders.</span></p> + +<p> "By the Honorable the Governor.—The Head-Quarters +of Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment +of Foot having arrived from Scinde, will be disembarked +to-morrow morning at sunrise.</p> + +<p>"On this occasion the Governor and Commander-in-Chief +of the Garrison, desirous of paying every mark of +honor to this distinguished Corps, will himself receive +it at the Apollo Pier.</p> + +<p>"On the landing of the first Division, a Royal Salute +is to be fired from the Saluting Battery.</p> + +<p>"The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn +up in Review Order, in a convenient position, and will +salute Her Majesty's <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, as it +passes on its way to Fort George Barracks.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> + +<p>"His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military +Officers at the Presidency who may not be sick, or +engaged on other duty.</p> + +<p>"The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to +carry out the above order.</p> + +<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">Bruce Seton</span>, <em>Major</em>,<br /> +<em>Town Major</em>."</p> +</div> + +<p>The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration +of the gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a +public banquet to the Officers of the corps; and the +inhabitants of Bombay, including the Civil Authorities, +raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to the +benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and +orphans, by the Campaign in Scinde.</p> + +<p>The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, +and proceeded from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on +the 23rd of May. The right wing and head-quarters +arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of June.</p> + +<p>General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th +of October, 1843, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred +on Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, K.C.B.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1844</div> + +<p>On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment +marched from Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the +19th the whole moved together for Field Service in the +Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost two officers, +and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by +cholera.</p> + +<p>A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the +north pettah under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the +27th of November; on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of +November the regiment, under the command of Brevet +Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment +of <em>Punalla</em> and <em>Pownghur</em>, and on the 1st of December +was at the capture of those forts, the latter of which was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span> +taken by the regiment. During these operations the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> formed part of the third brigade of the +force employed under Major-General Delamotte.</p> + +<p>On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment +marched, and joined the first brigade on service in the +Sawunt-Warree district; the other wing remained near +Kolapore.</p> + +<p>On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment +arrived at Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the +first brigade of the Field Force in the Sawunt-Warree +country, and was employed in investing the forts of +Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the +operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades +in the densely wooded country between Susseedroog and +the Forts.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1845</div> + +<p>The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; +on the 17th of January, 1845, part of the wing descended +the Elephant rock with other troops, and took the village +of Seevapore, in the Concan, close under Fort Monuhurr, +where one man was killed and seven wounded. The whole +of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or +heights above, and part in the Concan close under the +forts, investing them from the 17th to the 26th of January, +during which period the forts were constantly shelled by +the British artillery, the enemy from the forts firing their +great guns and musketry.</p> + +<p>On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated +the forts unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, +leaving the forts in the possession of the Anglo-Indian army.</p> + +<p>The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th +of February, escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. +The regiment was employed in doing duty +over about six hundred prisoners <ins class="corr" id="tn-45" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'until its recal'"> +until its recall</ins> to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, and +arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> + +<p>A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank +and file, under the command of Captain Souter, marched +from Poonah for Bombay on the 25th of December, 1845.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1846</div> + +<p>The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command +of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting +of five companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay +on the 15th of August, 1846, and joined the wing of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> at that station. The march was performed +in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain +consequently falling nearly the whole of the way.</p> + +<p>The regiment remained together at Bombay, having +six companies at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until +the 14th of November, 1846, when the head-quarters, +with five of the companies which were stationed at Colaba, +were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever of a +malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every +soldier at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in +less than two months; the casualties were very numerous.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1847<br />1848</div> + +<p>The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched +from Bombay on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived +at Poonah on the 21st of January. During the year +1848 the regiment continued to be stationed at Poonah.</p> + +<div class="sidenote">1849</div> + +<p>On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded +to Bombay, and was subsequently stationed at Colaba. +The left wing, consisting of four companies, embarked for +Kurrachee on the 24th of January.</p> + +<p>In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has +been extended, the regiment remained at Colaba, and +consisted of fifty-three serjeants, nineteen drummers, and +1042 rank and file, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel +Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau +being in command of the Poonah brigade.</p> + + +<p class="p4" /> +<hr class="r20a" /> +<p class="pfs120">1849.</p> +<hr class="r20a" /> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="PL_3" style="max-width: 37.5em;"> + <img class="p4 w100" src="images/i_b_047fp.jpg" alt="" /> +</div> +<p class="p2 right fs70">BELOOCHEE STANDARD, CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF MEEANEE,<br /> +BY THE XXII REGIMENT, ON THE 17<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY 1843.</p> + +<p class="p1 noindent fs70">SILVER MEDAL STRUCK IN COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLES OF<br /> +MEEANEE AND HYDERABAD, IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1843.</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70"><em>For Cannon's Military Records.</em></p> +<p class="fs70"><em>Madeley lith. 3 Wellington S<sup>t</sup>. Strand.</em></p> + + +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span><br /></p> + +<p class="p2 negin2"><em>Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle +of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>, <em>on the 17th of February, 1843.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was +taken at the Battle of <em>Meeanee</em>, on the 17th of February, 1843, +by Private James O'Neill of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +as narrated at <a href="#Page_35">page 35</a> of the Historical Record. The Standard +is triangular; the longest side is about seven feet in +length, and the other sides measure each about five feet. The +Staff is nine feet in length.</p> + +<p>The Standards captured at the Battle of <em>Hyderabad</em>, on the +24th of March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do +not afford a just idea of the Army which they may be supposed +to have led on. No person, on viewing these Trophies, would +suppose the Beloochee Army, to which they belonged, to have +been composed of men so gallant and so formidable; so well +armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, as the Scindian +troops proved themselves in these battles.</p> + +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p class="negin2"><em>Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of +the Victories of</em> <span class="smcap">Meeanee</span> <em>and</em> <span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>, <em>and conferred +on the Officers and Men engaged in those Battles.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">On the obverse; the bust of <span class="smcap">Her Majesty</span>, with the inscription +"<span class="smcap">Victoria Regina</span>."</p> + +<p>On the reverse; the words "<span class="smcap">Meeanee</span>," "<span class="smcap">Hyderabad</span>," +"1843," enclosed within branches of Laurel, and surmounted +by the Imperial Crown.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was +restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. +It was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to +Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> The grenadier company of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, which +had been incorporated with the "<em>Louisburg Grenadiers</em>," formed +part of the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights +of Abraham on the 13th of September, 1759.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented +the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in +reference to the conduct of the regiment,—"I had myself the +means of knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, +whilst your head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally +popular, and their departure generally regretted. During the +few pleasant days I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the +flank companies of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment formed a part, I +remember upon remarking to the Major-General there commanding, +the perfect good conduct of all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew +better men.'"</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by +the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was +promoted Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was +appointed ensign in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, the commissions +being dated 18th February, 1843, the day following the battle of +Meeanee.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> The following interesting circumstance is recorded by Major-General +Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, respecting +the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere Mahomed:—</p> + +<p>"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the +Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat, +saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of water; +they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins and +struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that +moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the +generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their +own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then +they all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> men's +muskets for them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging +them to hold out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, +but soon fell. It was then discovered that these noble fellows +were all wounded, some deeply, but thinking there was to be +another fight, they had concealed their hurts, and forced nature to +sustain the loss of blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, +the long marches, and the sandy desert, that their last moments +might be given to their country on another field of battle!"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><em>Names of men of the</em> <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> <em>regiment who concealed their +wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with +their regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand.</em></p> +</div> + +<p>Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, +Henry Lines, Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, +James Mulvey, and Silvester Day.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp +to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having +been deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing +as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of +Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained.</p> + +<p>Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, +with Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and +becoming supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth +regiment from India in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, +1848, Colonel Pennefather was appointed to serve on the Staff of +the army in Ireland.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> + +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span><br /></p> + +<h2 class="nobreak fs100 lsp2" id="SUCCESSION">SUCCESSION OF COLONELS</h2> +</div> + +<p class="pfs70">OF</p> + +<p class="pfs135">THE TWENTY-SECOND,</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs70">OR</p> + +<p class="p1 pfs120">THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.</p> + +<hr class="r30a" /> +<hr class="r30b" /> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Henry, Duke of Norfolk, K.G.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 16th March, 1689.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Lord Henry Howard</span>, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, +afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was summoned to parliament +in 1678, by the title of Lord Mowbray: and on the death of +Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship was nominated governor +and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden of the forest of +Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and Surrey. On +the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the dignity +of <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span>, and of Earl Marshal of England; and +in May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble +order of the Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of +the <span class="smcap">Duke of Monmouth</span>, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> took +great interest in raising a regiment of foot for the service of +King James II., now the twelfth regiment of foot, of which +he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve of the +measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to +the protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the +King gave the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> the sword of state to +carry with him to the Popish chapel, which he carried as far +as the door and then stopped, not being willing to enter the +chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your father would have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span> +gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,—"Your +Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not +have gone so far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and +joined in the invitation to the <span class="smcap">Prince of Orange</span>. When +the Prince landed, the <span class="smcap">Duke of Norfolk</span> was in London, +and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for a free +parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk, +declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and +some of the neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. +On the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his +Graced was sworn a member of the privy council; and afterwards +used his interest and influence in raising a corps of infantry, +now the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT</span>, of which he +was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his +commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April +1701.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis, Kt.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th September, 1689.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Sir Henry Bellasis</span> was educated in strict principles of +loyalty and attachment to monarchical government, and when +a youth he suffered in the royal cause during the usurpation +of Cromwell. Soon after the restoration he was nominated +captain of an independent company in garrison at Hull, of +which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) was appointed +governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of the +Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of +1674, Sir Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and +pikemen for the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, +and was engaged at the siege of Grave in the +autumn of that year. He also served at the siege of Maestricht +in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel in 1677; and in the +following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley in the command +of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the +battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and +ability, vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the +Prince of Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was +wounded. During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span> +in 1685, he accompanied his regiment to England; and in +1687 circumstances occurred which occasioned him to withdraw +from the Dutch service; but he preserved his attachment +to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of Orange. +In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy +of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he +served in Ireland under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He +served as brigadier-general under King William in 1690; +was at the battle of the Boyne; and at the siege of Limerick, +where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 he acquired +new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed +bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the +reduction of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, +and took possession of the town on the 26th of July, +with his own and two other regiments of foot. The rank of +major-general was conferred on this distinguished officer in +April, 1692, and he commanded a brigade under King William +in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. He acquired +additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; also +in the command of a brigade under King William during the +following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded +him with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious +conduct procured him the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, +by whom he was employed on important services. He +commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, in May, 1695; and +a division of the covering army was placed under his orders +during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign he +was appointed president of the general court-martial which +tried the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the +enemy, and sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. +He continued to serve in the Netherlands until the peace of +Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained the colonelcy of the Queen +Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in exchange with +Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the +British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been +charged with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, +he was tried by a court-martial and dismissed the service. +His reputation was thus unfortunately tarnished; but his +crime does not appear to have been considered of a heinous +nature, as he was subsequently elected a member of parliament +for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen Anne, in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span> +1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several particulars +respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in +June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He +died on the 14th of December, 1717.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 28th June, 1701.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">William Selwyn</span> served in the army of the United Provinces +of the Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., +and afterwards held a commission under the British crown. +In 1688 he was nominated captain and lieut.-colonel in the +second foot guards, with which corps he served in Flanders, +and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy of the +second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke. +He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen +on the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under +the eye of his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, +in the summer of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of +brigadier-general during the siege. He subsequently commanded +a brigade of infantry in the Netherlands, under King +William III., who nominated him governor of the island of +Jamaica. He exchanged to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +in 1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on +the 10th June, 1702. He died in June, 1702.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 20th June, 1702.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, +<span class="smcap">Thomas Handasyd</span> was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, with which corps he proceeded +to the island of Jamaica; and in June, 1702, Queen Anne +promoted him to the colonelcy of the regiment. He served +in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general +in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span> +1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment +in favour of his non.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Roger Handasyd.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 3rd April, 1712.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This Officer served many years in the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment, and was promoted by Queen <ins class="corr" id="tn-52" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Anne to that'"> +Anne to the</ins> lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which he commanded some time at +the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his father in the colonelcy +of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the sixteenth +foot in 1730,—promoted to the rank of brigadier-general +in 1735,—to that of major-general in 1739,—and to lieut.-general +in 1743. He died in 1763.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Barrell.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 25th August, 1730.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; +he obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished +conduct in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the +brevet rank of colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 +he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; +in 1727 he was appointed brigadier-general; in 1730 he was +removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, and in 1734 to the +King's Own. In the following year he was promoted to the +rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of lieut.-general; and +he was also appointed governor of Pendennis Castle. He +died on the 9th of August, 1749.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1734.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable James St. Clair</span> entered the army in +the reign of Queen Anne, and served under the celebrated +<span class="smcap">John Duke of Marlborough</span>. He was several years an +officer in the third foot guards, in which corps he rose to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span> +commission of major, with the rank of colonel, and in 1734 +King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, from which he was removed, in +1737, to the first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted +to the rank of brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of +major-general; and to that of lieut.-general in 1745, at which +time he was performing the duty of quartermaster-general in the +Netherlands, to the army commanded by His Royal Highness +the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year he commanded +an expedition which was originally designed for the attack of +the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, and +afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and +the peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, +achieved. He was subsequently employed on an embassy to +the courts of Vienna and Turin.<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> On the decease of his +brother, in 1750, he became entitled to the dignity of Lord +Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he preferred a seat in the +House of Commons, of which he had been many years a +member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 +he was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, +in November, 1762.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Moyle.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 27th June, 1737.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Moyle</span> entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, +and served with reputation under the celebrated John Duke +of Marlborough; he rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly +raised regiment of foot, and in 1708 was promoted to the rank +of colonel in the army. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment +was disbanded. In 1723 King George I. conferred the +colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel Moyle, who +was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, and +to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to +the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. He died on the 3rd of +November, 1738.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Thomas Paget.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 13th December, 1738.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">This officer entered the army in the reign of King William +III., and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now +seventh dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the +celebrated John Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, +1710, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth +horse; he was afterwards lieut.-colonel of the first troop of +horse grenadier guards; and in July, 1732, was nominated +colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from which he was +removed, in 1738, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. In 1739 he was +promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the +28th of May, 1741.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 12th August, 1741.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Richard O'Farrell</span> was nominated ensign in a regiment of +foot on the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation +in the wars of King William III. and of Queen Anne. On +the 20th of December, 1722, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy +of the ninth foot, and he performed the duties of +commanding officer to that corps many years, with credit to +himself and advantage to the service. On the decease of +Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded +the long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell +with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment. In +1746 Colonel O'Farrell was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, +and in 1754 to that of major-general. His decease +occurred in 1757.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 11th July, 1757.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Edward Whitmore</span> entered the army in the reign of King +George II., and serving with distinction in the wars of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span> +Austrian succession, was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the +Thirty-sixth regiment on the 17th of July, 1747. He performed +the duty of commanding officer of the Thirty-sixth regiment +with reputation ten years; and in July, 1757, King George II. +rewarded him with the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment. He was nominated brigadier-general in America +in December, 1757; in 1758 he commanded a brigade +under Lieut.-General (afterwards Lord) Amherst, in the +descent on Cape Breton, and at the siege and capture of +Louisburg, of which fortress he was afterwards nominated +governor. On the 19th of February, 1761, he was promoted +to the rank of major-general. During the following winter +he left Louisburg for Boston; during the voyage the ship +was driven, by severe weather, into the harbour of Plymouth, +and Major-General Whitmore, being on deck, in the night, +fell overboard and was drowned.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 29th March, 1762.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Thomas Gage</span>, second son of Thomas, +first Viscount Gage, of Castle Island, in Ireland, having +served some time in the subordinate commissions, was +appointed major of the Forty-fourth foot in February, 1747; +and he was further promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the +regiment on the 2nd of March, 1751. He was serving with +his regiment in America, when a dispute occurred between +Great Britain and France respecting the territory on the banks +of the Ohio, and he commanded the advance-guard of the forces +sent against Fort Du Quesne, which the French had built to +command the entrance into the country on the Ohio and Mississippi. +In the disastrous action on the 9th of July, 1755, Major-General +Braddock was killed, and Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable +Thomas Gage was wounded. He continued to serve in +America, where he raised a provincial regiment, which was +numbered the eightieth, light-armed foot, of which he was +appointed colonel in May, 1758; he was also appointed +brigadier-general in North America, and the efforts of the +army effected the conquest of Canada, which has continued +to form part of the British dominions from that period. He<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span> +was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761, and in +the same year he performed the duty of Commander-in-Chief +in North America, and also succeeded Sir Jeffrey Amherst as +Colonel-in-Chief of the sixtieth regiment, which he held +two months, when Lieut.-General Amherst was re-appointed. +In March, 1762, he was appointed colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +foot; and in April, 1770, he was promoted to the +rank of lieut.-general. When the misunderstanding between +Great Britain and her North American colonies began to +assume a serious aspect, he was appointed Captain-General +and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay, and he arrived +at Boston in May, 1774. Hostilities commenced in the +following year, and his active exertions to suppress the rebellion +were rewarded in August, 1775, with the appointment +of Commander-in-Chief in North America, which he resigned +in a few months afterwards. In April, 1782, he was appointed +colonel of the seventeenth light dragoons; he was +promoted to the rank of general in November following, and +in 1785 he was removed to the eleventh dragoons. He +died in 1787.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th April, 1782.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">Charles O'Hara</span> was appointed cornet in the third dragoons +in December, 1752, and in 1756 he was promoted to lieutenant +and captain in the second foot guards. He served in +Portugal in 1762, and performed the duties of quartermaster-general +to the army under Lieut.-General the Earl of Loudoun. +In 1769 he was promoted to the rank of captain and +lieut.-colonel; and he served with his regiment in North +America. In the autumn of 1781 he was promoted to the +rank of major-general. He commanded the brigade of foot +guards under Lieut.-General Earl Cornwallis, in Virginia; +distinguished himself at the passage of the Catawba river on +the 1st of February, 1781; and was wounded at the battle +of Guildford on the 15th of March. In 1782 he was nominated +to the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment; was +removed to the Seventy-fourth highlanders in 1791, and was +advanced to the rank of lieut.-general in 1793. He commanded<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span> +the British troops at Toulon, and was wounded and +taken prisoner in an action with the French republican troops +on the 30th of November, 1793. His services were rewarded +with the appointment of governor of Gibraltar, and in 1798 +he was promoted to the rank of general. It is recorded that +he possessed a happy combination of talents; was a brave and +enterprising soldier, a strict disciplinarian, and a polite and +accomplished gentleman. He died at Gibraltar on the 21st +of February, 1802.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">David Dundas.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 2nd April, 1791.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">David Dundas</span> was one of the most distinguished officers of +the age in which he lived, for his perfect knowledge of the +principles of military tactics. He commenced his military +education at the age of thirteen in the academy at Woolwich, +and at fifteen he assisted in a survey of Scotland; in 1756 he +obtained a commission in the Fifty-sixth regiment. In 1758 +he proceeded with the expedition to the coast of France as +an assistant quartermaster-general; and in the following year +obtained the command of a troop in a newly raised regiment +of light dragoons (Eliott's light horse), now the fifteenth, or +King's hussars. He served with his regiment in Germany +in 1760 and 1761; in the following summer he accompanied +an expedition to Cuba, as aide-de-camp to Major-General +Eliott, and was actively employed in the reduction of the +Havannah. After the peace he resumed his post in his +regiment, in which he rose to the rank of major; and, urged +by an ardent desire to acquire a perfect knowledge of every +branch of his profession, he obtained permission to proceed to +the Continent, to observe the practice of the French and +Austrian armies. In 1775 he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy +of the twelfth light dragoons, joined the regiment in Ireland +shortly afterwards, and in 1778 received the appointment of +quartermaster-general in that country. In 1782 he was +removed to the lieut.-colonelcy of the second Irish horse, now +the fifth dragoon guards. In 1785 he again proceeded to the +Continent, attended the exercises of the Prussian troops during<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span> +three summers, and after his return he presented His Majesty +with a detailed account of their evolutions.</p> + +<p>Colonel Dundas, having become a proficient tactician, produced, +in 1788, a highly useful work on the principles of military +movements, which became the basis of our army regulations +for field exercises and movements. His abilities obtained +for him the favour and attention of King George III., who +appointed him adjutant-general in Ireland, for the purpose of +introducing his system of tactics into the army of that country. +In 1790 Colonel Dundas was promoted to the rank of major-general. +In 1791 he obtained the colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +foot, and in the same year was placed on the Irish +staff, but he resigned that appointment in 1793 to engage in +service of actual warfare. After the commencement of +hostilities with the French republic, Major-General Dundas +was employed on a military mission to the island of Jersey, +and was subsequently sent to the Continent to confer with the +Duke of York respecting the siege of Dunkirk. From +Flanders he proceeded to Toulon, where he commanded under +Lieut.-General O'Hara, and when the lieut.-general was +taken prisoner, he succeeded to the command of the garrison. +His services there, although he was ultimately obliged to +evacuate the place, called forth the approbation of his Sovereign +and of the British nation. After abandoning Toulon, he +made a descent on Corsica, which island was reduced and +annexed to the British dominions; but shortly afterwards he +received directions to proceed to Flanders, where he arrived +in the spring of 1794, and commanded a brigade of cavalry at +the battle of Tournay on the 22nd of May, 1794. Major-General +Dundas was actively employed in the retreat through +Holland, and the corps under his immediate command gained +considerable advantage over the enemy in two successive +actions near Gelder-Malsen; he highly distinguished himself +also in an attack upon the French post at Thuyl, in December +of the same year. He continued with the British troops in +Germany during the summer of 1795, and in December was +appointed colonel of the seventh light dragoons. After +his return to England he was appointed quartermaster-general +to the army; and he composed the celebrated regulations +for the field exercises and movements for the cavalry, +which were approved by his Royal Highness the Duke of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span> +York, and by King George III., and ordered to be exclusively +adopted throughout the cavalry.</p> + +<p>In 1799 Lieut.-General Dundas commanded a division of +the allied army under the Duke of York, in the expedition to +Holland; he distinguished himself in several actions with the +enemy, and was highly commended by His Royal Highness +in his public despatches. In 1801 he was appointed colonel +of the second, or Royal North British dragoons, and was constituted +governor of Fort George. In 1802 he was promoted +to the rank of general; and in the following year, when the +French were preparing to invade England, he was placed in +command of the troops in the southern district, which comprised +the counties of Kent and Sussex. In 1804 he was +appointed governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and +created a Knight of the Bath. On the 18th of March, 1809, +His Majesty was pleased to confer on this distinguished +veteran the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the army, +on the resignation of Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the +Duke of York, which appointment he held until the 25th of +May, 1811, when His Royal Highness was re-appointed. +He was also appointed colonel-in-chief of the rifle brigade on +the 31st of August, 1809. He was promoted to the colonelcy +of the King's dragoon guards on the <ins class="corr" id="tn-59" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '27th of Januuary'"> +27th of January</ins>, 1813. He died in 1820, after a distinguished service of upwards of +sixty years.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">William Crosbie.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 23rd December, 1795.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">After serving in the subordinate commissions, <span class="smcap">William +Crosbie</span> was nominated captain of a company in the Twenty-eighth +regiment, on the 9th of May, 1769; and in October, +1778, he was promoted to the majority of the seventh Royal +Fusiliers, with which corps he served in the Carolinas; in +April, 1781, he obtained the lieut.-colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment. While stationed at Windsor in 1785, +he obtained the permission of King George III. for the +introduction of an order of merit in the corps, which under +his command obtained a high reputation for correct discipline.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span> +He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790; and in +1793 received a letter of service for raising the Eighty-ninth +regiment, of which he was appointed colonel. In 1794 he +was advanced to the rank of major-general, and was removed +to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment in 1795. He died on the +16th of June, 1798, at Portsmouth, of which fortress he was +lieut.-governor at the time of his decease.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th June, 1798.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">John Graves Simcoe</span>, son of Captain Simcoe of the Royal +Navy, evinced great talent from his youth. It is recorded +that, when a boy, he was taken prisoner at sea, and conveyed +up the river St. Lawrence, to Quebec; and he constructed a +chart of the river, which was given to Major-General Wolfe, +who sailed with an expedition against Quebec, in 1759. On +the 27th of April, 1770, he was appointed ensign in the +Thirty-fifth regiment, with which corps he served at Boston, +in 1775; he was appointed captain in the fortieth regiment +in December, 1775, and served at Long Island and New +York in 1776, and in the expedition to Pennsylvania in 1777, +when he distinguished himself at the battle of Brandywine, +and was wounded. In October of the same year, he was +placed at the head of a provincial corps, called "The Queen's +Rangers," with the rank of major-commandant, and was promoted +to the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1778. His services +with this corps are spoken of by Lieut.-General Sir Henry +Clinton, in a letter to Lord George Germaine, in the following +terms:—"Lieut.-Colonel Simcoe has been at the head of a +battalion since October, 1777, and since that time he has +been perpetually with the advance of the army. The history +of the corps under his command is a series of gallant, +skilful, and successful enterprises against the enemy, without +a single reverse. The Queen's Rangers have killed, or +taken, twice their own numbers. Colonel Simcoe himself +has been thrice wounded; and I do not scruple to assert, +that his successes have been no less the fruit of the most extensive +knowledge of his profession which study and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span> +experience within his reach could give him, than of the +most watchful attention and shining courage." After repeatedly +distinguishing himself in North and South Carolina, +and Virginia, he was included in the capitulation of York +Town, and returned to England in a state of debility from +excessive exertion, &c. In 1790 he was promoted to the +rank of colonel, and in the following year raised a corps of +infantry called the Queen's Rangers, of which he was appointed +colonel on the 1st of September, 1791. He subsequently +proceeded to the West Indies, where he evinced the +same talent, energy, and courage which shone so conspicuously +in the American war. In 1794 he was promoted to the rank +of major-general, and in 1796 to the local rank of lieut.-general +in the island of St. Domingo. In January, 1798, he +was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-first regiment, and was +removed, in June following, to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> regiment, +the colonelcy of which corps he retained until his decease in +1806.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir James H. Craig, K.B.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 30th October, 1806.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent"><span class="smcap">James Henry Craig</span> was appointed ensign in the thirtieth +foot, in 1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar; in +1771 he was promoted to captain in the Forty-seventh regiment, +with which corps he served several campaigns in +America; and in 1777 he was promoted to the majority, and +in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of the Eighty-second regiment, +from which he was removed, in 1783, to the sixteenth. He +was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and to that of +major-general in 1794; in 1795 he was nominated to the +colonelcy of the Forty-sixth regiment: he was advanced to +the rank of lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the Eighty-sixth +in 1804. He commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, +in 1805, with the local rank of general, and the +dignity of a knight of the Bath; the troops under his orders +landed at Naples, and subsequently took possession of the +island of Sicily. In 1806 he was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> +regiment; and in 1807 he was appointed governor +of Upper and Lower Canada, with the local rank of general<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span> +in America; in 1809 he was removed to the Seventy-eighth +Highlanders. He was also appointed governor of Blackness +Castle. He died on the 12th of January, 1812.</p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">The Honorable Edward Finch.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 18th September, 1809.</em></p> + +<p class="noindent">In 1778 the <span class="smcap">Honorable Edward Finch</span> was appointed +cornet in the eleventh light dragoons, and in 1779 he was +promoted to a lieutenancy in the Eighty-seventh foot. He +embarked for the West Indies, in January, 1780, and served +there, and in North America, until 1782, when he returned +to England, and was appointed lieutenant and captain in the +second foot guards; in 1792 he was promoted to captain and +lieut.-colonel in the same corps. He served the campaigns +of 1793 and 1794, in Flanders, under His Royal Highness +the Duke of York, and shared in the several actions in which +the foot guards distinguished themselves. In 1796 he was +promoted to the rank of colonel, and in 1799 he commanded +the first battalion of his regiment in the expedition to Holland, +where he served in several actions under Lieut.-General Sir +Ralph Abercromby and His Royal Highness the Duke of +York. He commanded the brigade of light cavalry in the +expedition to Egypt, in 1800, with the rank of brigadier-general, +and was promoted to the rank of major-general, in +January, 1801. After commanding the light cavalry in +Egypt some time, he was placed at the head of a brigade of +infantry, and was honored with the Order of the Crescent +from the Grand Seignior. He commanded a brigade of +foot guards in the expedition to Hanover in 1805; and in +1807 he commanded a brigade at the capture of Copenhagen. +In 1808 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and +appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth regiment, and in 1809 he +was removed to the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>. He was promoted to +the rank of general in 1819. His decease occurred on the +27th of October, 1843.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p> + + +<p class="p4 center"><span class="smcap">Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B.</span></p> + +<p class="center"><em>Appointed 21st November, 1843.</em></p> + +<p>The following Regimental Order was issued by Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, upon his appointment by Her +Majesty to the Colonelcy of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment.</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p class="noindent">"<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND!</span></p> + +<p> Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me +at your head, and I shall end my military career wearing the +uniform of the Regiment. Your Glory must be my Glory, +and well I know it will increase, when you have again an opportunity +to use your Arms! Never were the Musket and +Bayonet wielded by stronger men, nor were the Royal Colours +of England ever confided to more intrepid Soldiers!</p> + +<p>"Many General Officers have been made Colonels of Regiments +that they had formerly commanded, and with whose +glory their own fame is associated; but old Comrades have +passed away,—to the new men, they are strangers,—and +nought remains to bind them to their Regiments, but Memory +and Renown! My good fortune has been greater, for +while I rejoice in the past and present honors of my old +Corps, the Fiftieth Regiment, I am, as Colonel of the +<span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span>, placed among men at whose head I have +so lately fought, and to whose valour I owe so much!!</p> + +<p>"Soldiers, we are not men without feeling as <em>pseudo</em> Philosophers +pretend! Obedience, Discipline, War, they deprive +us not of Manly sentiments. I shall always have the strongest +attachment to the corps with whom I have served, and among +the honors won for me by the Army of Scinde, the greatest +is that of being your Colonel!!</p> + +<p class="right"> +(Signed) "<span class="pad4 smcap">C. J. Napier</span>, <em>Major-General</em>,<br /> +"<em>Colonel 22nd Regiment</em>.</p> + +<p>"<em>Kurrachee, 23rd January, 1844.</em>"</p> +</div> + +<p class="p1">The following Postscript to the Official letter to Major-General +Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appointment as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> +Colonel of the <span class="allsmcap">TWENTY-SECOND</span> Regiment, was in the <em>Duke +of Wellington's own hand-writing</em>:—</p> + +<div class="blockquotx"> + +<p>"P.S. I recommended this arrangement to Her Majesty, +principally on the ground that it would be satisfactory to you, +as this was the only one of Her Majesty's Regiments in India +engaged in the two glorious battles fought at <em>Meeanee</em> and +<em>Hyderabad</em>, in <em>Scinde</em>; and Her Majesty was graciously +pleased to approve of the recommendation on that ground."</p> +</div> + + +<p class="p4" /> +<hr class="r30" /> + +<p class="p4 pfs70">LONDON:</p> + +<p class="pfs70"> +Printed by <span class="smcap">William Clowes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sons</span>, Stamford Street,<br /> +For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.</p> + + +<div class="chapter"></div> +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"> + +<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> David Hume, the historian, was secretary to General St. Clair, +during the expedition to the coast of France, and the embassy to Vienna +and Turin.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<div class="transnote pg-brk"> +<a name="TN" id="TN"></a> +<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> + +<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been +corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within +the text and consultation of external sources.</p> + +<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, +and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.<br /> +<br /> +<a href="#tn-xxix">Pg xxix</a>: 'thence to Portmouth' replaced by 'thence to Portsmouth'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-34">Pg 34</a>: 'a deperate dash' replaced by 'a desperate dash'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-41">Pg 41</a>: 'stanch and true' replaced by 'staunch and true'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-45">Pg 45</a>: 'until its recal' replaced by 'until its recall'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-52">Pg 52</a>: 'Anne to that' replaced by 'Anne to the'.<br /> +<a href="#tn-59">Pg 59</a>: '27th of Januuary' replaced by '27th of January'.<br /> +</p> +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE TWENTY-SECOND, OR THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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