Historical record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842.Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842.
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 86th -- History; Great Britain. Army. Royal County Down Regiment -- History
In the two attacks, the EIGHTY-SIXTH had two serjeants and
twenty-three rank and file killed; Captain Moreton, Lieutenants
Travers, Baird, Lanphier, D’Aguilar, one serjeant, one drummer, and
seventy-three rank and file wounded. A great number of the wounded
soldiers died. Lieutenant Baird received five wounds; Lieutenant
Lanphier was wounded on each day; this officer and Lieutenant
D’Aguilar distinguished themselves on both occasions. Serjeant
George Ibertson was commended in regimental orders for his conduct
at the breach, and Corporal Crawford was rewarded with the rank of
serjeant, for his behaviour on this occasion.
The capture of Bhurtpore without additional means, being found
impracticable, the British withdrew from before that fortress, and
proceeded to Dhoolpore; negotiations for peace having been concluded,
the army was broken up in May; the Bengal troops proceeding to
Muttra, and the Bombay division to Tonk, where they remained during
the monsoon in huts.
After the rainy season, the Bombay force commenced its march,
proceeding through the territories of the Rajah of Jeypore, in
pursuit of the forces of Holkar, who was still in the field. Having
been chased to the banks of the Hyphasis river, on the borders of the
great desert, the Mahratta chieftain was forced to submit, and the
war was terminated by a treaty of peace[6].
In orders dated Riapoora Ghaut, on the left bank of the Hyphasis,
13th December, 1805, General Lord Lake returned thanks to
Major-General Jones, the officers, and soldiers, of the division of
the army from Bombay, for the important services rendered by them
during the war; and, alluding to the period they had been under his
immediate command, added, “His Lordship has been proud to witness, on
every occasion on which they have been employed, the steady conduct
and gallantry in action of all the troops composing the division.”
[Sidenote: 1806]
From the banks of the Hyphasis, near the spot where Alexander
the Great crossed that river when he invaded India, the regiment
commenced its march for Bombay, where it arrived on the 29th of
March, 1806, and embarking for Goa, landed on the rock of Aguada on
the 3rd of April, after a most active and harassing service of more
than five years, during which period it had sailed up the Red Sea,
crossed the desert twice, served a campaign in Egypt, traversed the
north and western provinces of India from Bombay to Bhurtpore, and
received the thanks of Lord Lake on the banks of the Hyphasis; having
sustained a loss of Lieut.-Colonel Robinson, Captains Maclaurin and
Macquarrie, Lieutenants Harvey, Price, and Wilson, Ensigns Massey,
Ellison, McKay, Leovick, and upwards of a thousand non-commissioned
officers and soldiers.
In October of this year, Lieutenant-General Craig, K.B., was removed
to the Twenty-second Foot, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the
_Eighty-sixth_ by Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ross, Baronet, from the
Eighty-fifth regiment.
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