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
[12] At Clonmel, the regiment lost a fine young officer, Lieutenant
Frederick Close, whose body was found in the river Suir, together
with the body of a young lady named Grubb. The cause of their
melancholy fate was never ascertained.
[13] NAMES OF THE OFFICERS who proceeded to the West Indies, in
1826:--
In the “Princess Royal,”--_Lieut.-Colonel_ J. W. Mallet; _Captains_
Robert Crawford, James Creagh; _Lieutenants_ Francis Kearney,
Lewis Halliday; _Ensign_ Robert Mayne; _Adjutant_ John Dolman; and
_Surgeon_ A. Cunningham.
In the “Waterloo,”--_Captain_ R. B. Usher; _Lieutenants_ P. North,
F. H. Dalgety, Lewis Grant; _Ensigns_ James Galwey, J. B. Selway, E.
Davis, and W. Johnson.
In the “Thetis,”--_Major_ Michael Creagh: _Captains_ Alexander
McLean, R. B. Wolseley; _Lieutenants_ J. Grant, J. McIntyre; and
_Quarter-Master_ J. Jerome.
[14] STATE OF LOSS:--
Trinidad and Tobago 42
Barbadoes 71
Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat, and Tortola 72
British Guiana 114
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added,
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Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Pg 16: ‘a langour pervaded’ replaced by ‘a languor pervaded’.
Pg 22: ‘Rao Holkur, one’ replaced by ‘Rao Holkar, one’.
Pg 24: ‘above Bareach’ replaced by ‘above Baroach’.
Pg 38: ‘The moonson having set’ replaced by ‘The monsoon having set’.
Pg 46: ‘Sidenote: 1814’ replaced by ‘Sidenote: 1813’.
Pg 60: ‘SEPARABIT?” the harp’ replaced by ‘SEPARABIT?”. The harp’.
Pg 60: ‘removed to Demarara’ replaced by ‘removed to Demerara’.
Pg 61: ‘Frederic Cavendish’ replaced by ‘Frederick Cavendish’.
Pg 61: ‘his acknowlgements’ replaced by ‘his acknowledgements’.
Pg 64: ‘fort of Ticonderago’ replaced by ‘fort of Ticonderoga’.
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