Historical record of the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Foot, or Connaught Rangers : $b containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1837.Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Foot, or Connaught Rangers : $b containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1837.
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 88th (Connaught Rangers)
did, and carried him off to render the last honours to his remains.
During the movements of the succeeding day, when the allied army
resumed the offensive, a heavy column of French infantry was routed
by Major-General Brisbane’s brigade, and the greater part made
prisoners by the Forty-Fifth, Seventy-Fourth, and EIGHTY-EIGHTH.
After this the third division re-occupied the pass of Roncesvalles,
where it remained till the 8th of August, when Major-General
Brisbane’s brigade was relieved by Colonel Downie’s brigade of
Spaniards, and proceeded by the valley of Los Alduides to the pass of
Maya.
On the 31st of August the whole of the third division crossed the
frontiers of France, and Major-General Brisbane’s brigade occupied
the pass of Echalar, replacing there the Seventh division, which had
proceeded to reinforce the troops before St. Sebastian; on the 4th,
however, it returned to the pass of Maya, and on the 15th resumed
its old position near the village of Erisoun, and remained in the
valley of Bastan till the 7th of October, when, in consequence of the
left of the army having crossed the Bidassoa and entered France, the
EIGHTY-EIGHTH and the rest of the division moved to the village of
Zagarramundi to the right and in front of the pass of Echalar.
During this interval (9th of September, 1813) Lieutenant-Colonel
Taylor joined the regiment, and superseded Lieutenant-Colonel
Macpherson in the command.
The colours of the EIGHTY-EIGHTH bear testimony that it had its share
on the 10th of November, in the storming of the formidable lines
which the French had erected on the river _Nivelle_, and in the
various actions which took place on the banks of the _Nive_, between
the 9th and 13th of December; but on neither of these occasions had
it the good fortune to come into actual contact with the enemy. On
the 17th of December it went into cantonments in the village of
Urcuray, situated on the high road leading from Bayonne to St. Jean
Pied de Port, and the adjacent hamlets, where it remained till the
army again moved forward in February following.
[Sidenote: 1814]
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