Historical record of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, or the Royal Irish Fusiliers : $b Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1853Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, or the Royal Irish Fusiliers : $b Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1853
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers
Captain Shawe proceeded with his regiment to the Peninsula in
January 1810; was present at the battle of Busaco on the 27th of
September following; also at the affairs of Redinha on the 12th
of March 1811, Condeixa on the day following, Foz d’Aronce on the
15th of that month, Sabugal on the 3rd of April, and at the battle
of Fuentes d’Onor on the 3rd and 5th of May 1811; in the latter
action Captain Shawe was wounded. He was advanced to the brevet
rank of Major on the 30th of May 1811, and served at the siege and
storming of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812; the siege of Badajoz
and the escalading of Fort Picurina on the 25th of March. This
fort was assaulted and carried by five hundred men of the third
division, two hundred of whom were under Brevet-Major Shawe, who
was dangerously wounded; he however recovered, and received the
brevet of Lieut.-Colonel, which was dated the 27th of April 1812,
for his services on this occasion. He was also thanked in general
orders by Viscount Wellington for his conduct, received a medal,
and was subsequently nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Shawe was appointed Major in the Fifty-ninth
regiment on the 4th of June 1813, and was promoted Lieut.-Colonel
in the Eighty-fourth regiment on the 15th of April 1817, and was
removed to the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment on the 30th of April 1818,
the command of which devolved upon him in May 1823 in consequence
of the decease of Lieut.-Colonel Miller. Lieut.-Colonel Shawe died
on the 10th of April 1826, on board His Majesty’s sloop “_Slany_,”
while within one day’s sail of Penang, where he was buried with
all military honors. His life was sacrificed to his zeal for his
duty, his health being such that, on leaving Calcutta, his medical
advisers tried every argument to dissuade him from proceeding to
join his regiment, then employed in the Burmese territory.
_List of Fifty-six Battalions formed from Men raised under the_
ARMY OF RESERVE _and_ ADDITIONAL FORCE ACTS, _in the Years 1803 and
1804_.
_Under the Army of Reserve Acts in 1803._
The following _Nineteen Regiments_ were appointed to receive men
raised for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland, under the
_Army of Reserve Acts_, passed in the year 1803, and were augmented
by second battalions, viz.:
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