Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Northumberland Fusiliers
Alured Clarke entered the army on the 20th of March, 1755, as
Ensign in the Fiftieth regiment of Foot; he obtained the rank of
Lieutenant in 1760; and his regiment proceeding to Germany in the
same year, he served during the remainder of the seven years' war
with the army commanded by Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick. On the 7th
of January, 1767, he obtained the command of a company in the FIFTH
FOOT. He was promoted to the Majority of the Fifty-fourth regiment
in 1771; and to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Seventh Fusiliers
on the 10th of March, 1777. He served with his regiment in America,
during the war with the United States; and was promoted to the rank
of Colonel on the 16th of May, 1781. He was further advanced to
the rank of Major-General on the 28th of April, 1790; and obtained
the Colonelcy of the FIFTH FOOT in 1794. During the war of the
French Revolution, when Holland had become subject to France, the
British Government resolved to take the Dutch settlement at the
Cape of Good Hope; and this place was captured, in the autumn of
1795, by a body of troops under Major-General Sir Alured Clarke,
and a naval force commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir George Keith
Elphinstone. The services of Major-General Clarke were afterwards
transferred to the East Indies, in which country he held the local
rank of Lieutenant-General from the 3rd of May, 1796; and he was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the army on the
26th of January, 1797. In 1801 he was removed to the Colonelcy
of the Seventh Fusiliers; and in the following year promoted to
the rank of General. He was subsequently advanced to the rank of
Field-Marshal; and died on the 16th of September, 1832.
RICHARD ENGLAND,
_Appointed 21st August, 1801_.
Richard England entered the service in 1766, as an Ensign in
the Forty-seventh Foot, in which regiment he attained the rank
of Major on the 3rd of August, 1781, and was promoted to the
Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Twenty-fourth Foot on the 20th
of February, 1783. In 1796 he was advanced to the rank of
Major-General; in April, 1800, he was appointed Colonel-Commandant
of the second battalion of the FIFTH FOOT, and in the following
year he succeeded Sir Alured Clarke in the Colonelcy of the
regiment. In August, 1803, he was appointed Governor of Plymouth;
he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-General in September of the same
year, and died on the 7th of November, 1812.
WILLIAM WYNYARD,
_Appointed 27th November, 1812_.
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