The EIGHTY-EIGHTH, or CONNAUGHT RANGERS, though comparatively a young regiment, has performed much arduous service. A few months after it was embodied, it was engaged in operations against the enemy in Flanders and Holland, and shared in all the difficulties and privations of a winter campaign in 1794. A portion of the corps was afterwards employed in active operations in the West Indies. In a few years it appeared on the shores of India; and it formed the van of the Indian army through the deserts of Egypt. In South America the CONNAUGHT RANGERS performed their duty as gallant soldiers: and throughout the Peninsular campaigns their services are associated with the _Third Division_ of the British army, which was eminently distinguished for gallantry. After a series of victories in Europe, the services of the regiment were transferred to North America, where it was distinguished for a praiseworthy national feeling, which is inherent in brave men, and was evinced by the absence of desertion. Its services may be estimated from the circumstance, that in a period of six years it lost forty-three Officers, twenty-eight of whom fell in the field; the remainder died from wounds, from the effects of climate, or from fatigue; and its loss in Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates during the same period, and from the same causes, was above two thousand. Since the termination of the war, this regiment, whether on home service, or in garrison abroad, has been eminent for good conduct; and its past services furnish a laudable incentive to perseverance in well-doing, to all who have the honour of being enrolled under its Colours. _In compiling this Record of the_ EIGHTY-EIGHTH _Regiment, or_ CONNAUGHT RANGERS, _in conformity to the King’s Command, as conveyed in the General Orders of the Army, great credit is due to Colonel O’Malley, who, with much diligence, has obtained a very circumstantial and correct statement of the services of the regiment; and Colonel O’Malley has acknowledged his obligations for much valuable information which has been furnished to him by the late Captain Robertson, and several other Officers who formerly served in the regiment;—particularly by Lieutenant Grattan, who served with the regiment in the Peninsular Campaigns and in North America, and has evinced the most indefatigable zeal and perseverance in contributing to the completion of this Memoir._ SECOND BATTALION OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.