Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
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Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
1st King's Dragoon Guards.
3rd Dragoon Guards.
5th Dragoon Guards.
6th Carabiniers.
7th Dragoon Guards.
5th R.I. Lancers.
Royal Scots Greys.
Grenadier Guards.
Royal Scots.
Buffs.
Liverpool Regiment.
Lincolns.
East Yorkshire.
Bedfords.
Royal Irish.
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
South Wales Borderers.
Cameronians.
Gloucesters.
Worcester.
Hampshire.
Though inscribed on our colours, there were but few British troops
actually under fire at the Battle of Ramillies. On the cavalry fell
the task of converting a victory into a rout, and to this end the
six regiments of British dragoons enumerated above were worthily
employed, their trophies being 56 guns, 80 stand of colours, and
2,000 prisoners. No regimental lists of casualties have been
preserved, but it would appear that the Cameronians lost two
officers killed, and that the cavalry in the pursuit lost 384 of
all ranks killed and wounded.
Ramillies was not the only success that attended our arms in
Flanders during the year 1706, and it is difficult to understand
why it alone should have been selected for recognition. The whole
of Flanders in those days was studded with fortresses, under cover
of which the French lay secure. To capture these was a necessity,
and one by one they fell into our hands. In the months of August,
Menin, after a siege of six weeks, was carried by assault, our loss
being 32 officers and 551 men killed, 80 officers and 1,944 men
wounded; the regiments which took part in the siege and assault
being the Scots Greys, the 3rd and 5th Dragoon Guards, the King's,
Liverpool Regiment, the Lincolns, the Royal Irish, and the Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, the latter losing fifteen officers killed and
wounded.
CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF RAMILLIES.
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