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
decision,--resolute action, and modest deportment. He died on the
10th of January, 1837.
JAMES WATSON.
_Appointed 31st March, 1836._
Removed to the fourteenth foot, 24th May, 1837.
SIR ARTHUR BROOKE, KCB.
_Appointed 24th May, 1837._
LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] “GEORGE R.,
“Whereas we have thought fit to order a regiment of foot to
be forthwith raised, under your command, which is to consist
of ten companies, with three serjeants, three corporals, two
drummers, and fifty-seven private men in each company, with
two fifers to the grenadier company, besides a serjeant-major
and quarter-master-serjeant, together with the usual number of
commissioned officers; these are to authorise you, by beat of drum,
or otherwise, to raise so many men in any county or part of our
kingdom of Great Britain, as shall be wanted to complete the said
regiment to the above-mentioned numbers.
“And all magistrates, justices of the peace, constables, and other
our civil officers, whom it may concern, are hereby required to be
assisting unto you, in providing quarters, impressing carriages, and
otherwise, as there shall be occasion.
“GIVEN at Our Court, at St. James’s, this 1st day of November, 1793,
in the thirty-fourth year of Our reign.
“By His Majesty’s command,
“(Signed) GEORGE YONGE.”
“_To Our trusty and well-beloved C. Cuyler, Esq., Major-General in
our Army, and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot to be forthwith raised,
&c., &c., &c._”
[2] Now General Commanding-in-Chief.
[3] The troops designed for this service consisted of the tenth,
eightieth, and eighty-eighth regiments, seven companies of the
nineteenth, three of eighty-sixth, a battalion of native infantry,
and a proportion of artillery, under Colonel the Honourable Arthur
Wellesley.
[4] OFFICERS PRESENT,--_Majors_ Henry Torrens, (commanding,) George
Cuyler; _Captains_ James Richardson, John Grant, ---- Maclaurin;
_Lieutenants_ W. Martin, J. H. Wilson, Peter Drummond, John Harvey,
Alexander Grant, R. Travers, William Bourd, S. G. McKay, Thomas
Lanphier, J. Wilson, David Morrice, Edmund Carter, G. D’Aigular;
_Ensign_ Neill Maclaurin; _Adjutant_ W. Moreton; _Quarter-Master_ J.
Coor; _Surgeon_ P. W. Deane; _Assistant-Surgeons_ Bellars and Liddle:
53 serjeants, 22 drummers, 668 rank and file.
[5] OFFICERS PRESENT, 1st January, 1805:--_Major_ George Cuyler,
(commanding); _Captains_ James Grant, William Moreton; _Lieutenants_
R. Travers, W. Baird, Thomas Lanphier, J. Wilson, D. Morrice,
George D’Aguilar, N. Maclaurin, H. Steele; _Surgeon_ P. W. Deane;
_Assistant-Surgeons_ Bellars and Liddle:--51 serjeants, 22 drummers,
511 rank and file.
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