Historical Record of the Fifteenth, or, the Yorkshire East Riding, Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Fifteenth, or, the Yorkshire East Riding, Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. East Yorkshire Regiment
Peace having been restored, and Buonaparte sent in exile to St.
Helena, the second battalion of the regiment was disbanded in the
island of Guernsey, on the 25th of January, 1816; the men fit for
service embarking to join the first battalion at Barbadoes.
On the 15th of April, the regiment marched from garrison at St.
Anne's, to quell an insurrection among the negroes in the interior
of the island of Barbadoes, where strong detachments remained until
June, when the regiment was removed to Martinique.
In August, the French eighty-eighth regiment, or Martinique Legion,
arrived to garrison the island, and the FIFTEENTH, being relieved,
proceeded to Grenada, where they landed on the 5th of September,
and marched into garrison at Richmond-hill.
[Sidenote: 1817]
[Sidenote: 1818]
From Grenada the regiment embarked, in the spring of 1817, in two
divisions, under Lieut.-Colonel Davidson and Major Maxwell, for
Halifax in Nova Scotia, where it was stationed two years.
[Sidenote: 1819]
The right wing, under Major Maxwell, embarked for Bermuda in June,
1819, and relieved the left wing of the sixty-second regiment at
Fort George barracks, where the FIFTEENTH lost between sixty and
seventy men of the yellow fever, in August and September.
[Sidenote: 1820]
[Sidenote: 1821]
During the year 1820, the regiment was stationed at Bermuda and
Nova Scotia. In the summer of 1821, it was relieved at the former
station by a wing of the second battalion of the sixtieth, and at
the latter by the eighty-first regiment; and embarking for England,
landed at Portsmouth in July and August, and was stationed at Fort
Cumberland until November, when it embarked for Plymouth.
[Sidenote: 1822]
In the summer of 1822, the regiment was removed to Hull; in October
it embarked at Liverpool for Ireland, and landing at Dublin,
occupied Richmond barracks a few weeks, and afterwards proceeded to
Naas.
[Sidenote: 1823]
[Sidenote: 1824]
The regiment was removed in the summer of 1823 to Waterford, and
in the autumn to Cork, with a detachment at Spike Island; and it
occupied this station during the year 1824.
[Sidenote: 1825]
Leaving Cork in July, 1825, the regiment proceeded to Buttevant,
with detachments to the towns in the neighbourhood.
[Sidenote: 1826]
A division of the regiment marched to Templemore in February, 1826,
and sent out numerous detachments. One party stationed at Thurles,
under Captain Temple, evinced great patience and forbearance,
united with a proper degree of firmness, in suppressing a riot at
that place, when several persons had been killed by the police.
Captain Temple received an address of thanks and approbation from
the magistrates and principal inhabitants of the town, for his cool
and judicious conduct on this occasion. In the autumn the regiment
marched to Galway, sending out eleven detachments.
[Sidenote: 1827]
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