Produced by KD Weeks, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are preceed with ‘^’. Unusual fractions (usually fractions of a year) are shown as, for example, ‘2-4/12’. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. There was a short list of corrections to certain dates provided by the printer. This version retains that table, but has made the suggested corrections. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. A HISTORY OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. [Illustration: _Field Marshal H.R.H. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge K.G., G.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel Coldstream Guards 1805-1850._ FROM A PRINT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REGIMENT. ] [Illustration: A HISTORY OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS, FROM 1815 TO 1895. BY L^T. COL. ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG, C.B. LATE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. ILLUSTRATED BY LIEUT. NEVILE R. WILKINSON, COLDSTREAM GUARDS. LONDON, A.D. INNES & C^O. 1896. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THIS HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY'S COLDSTREAM REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS, FROM THE YEAR 1815 TO 1885, IS, BY MOST GRACIOUS PERMISSION, HUMBLY DEDICATED TO =HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN-EMPRESS= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. The following pages are a continuation of Colonel MacKinnon’s _Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards_, from the victory of Waterloo down to the year 1885. They have been compiled with great care and much labour, and the reader will, I trust, feel justified in adding, with accuracy and marked ability. The first few chapters deal with events that took place in France, after Waterloo, including the military occupation of the North-Eastern frontier by the Allies, up to the year 1818. The period onwards to the Crimean War, although containing but few accounts of interest concerning the career of the Regiment, is valuable as continuing, to a considerable extent, the history of events in Europe so far as that is consistent with the subject of the present volume.