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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.Cannon, Richard

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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

Name: Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 56th (West Essex) -- History

Keating     |Sep.   3, 1800|{Promoted August 1, 1804,       |
  |                     |              |{  by Augmentation.             |
  |Robert Owen          |Aug.  27, 1803|{Placed upon half-pay,          |
  |                     |              |{  February 21, 1805.           |
  |George Andrew        |Aug.   1, 1804|{Exchanged to half-pay,         |
  |  Armstrong          |              |{  January 5, 1805.             |
  |Robert O’Neill    }  |Aug.   2, 1804|{Exchanged to half-pay,         |
  |         {Augmen- }  |              |{  June 23, 1808, with          |
  |         {tation. }  |              |{  Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh. |
  |Fletcher Barclay  }  |Aug.  27, 1804|Promoted June 27, 1811.         |
  |William Brooke       |Jan.   5, 1805|{Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon     |
  |                     |              |{  Guards, July 25, 1805.       |
  |John McLeod          |Feb.  21, 1805|{Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ninth  |
  |                     |              |{  Garrison Battalion, May      |
  |                     |              |{  5, 1808.                     |
  |Henry R. Knight      |July  25, 1805|Exchanged to half-pay, July     |
  |                     |              |{  17, 1806.                    |
  |Boyle Travers        |July  17, 1806|Promoted January 2, 1812.       |
  |Samuel Bayley        |June   9, 1808|Died in 1810.                   |
  |Thomas Walsh         |June  23, 1808|Died in 1810.                   |
  |John William Mallett |Aug.  29, 1810|Promoted November 6, 1813.      |
  |Sir Charles Wyndham }|Nov.  29, 1810|Retired July 26, 1821.          |
  |  Burdett, Bart.    }|              |                                |
  |Robert Grant         |June  27, 1811|{Exchanged to Eighty-second     |
  |                     |              |{  Foot, April 12, 1821.        |
  |Joseph Hanna         |Jan.   2, 1812|Died in 1816.                   |
  |William S. Forbes    |Nov.   6, 1813|}Placed on half-pay on September|
  |Henry Capadose       |Oct.  17, 1816|}  6, 1817, on the disbandment  |
  |                     |              |}  of second battalion.         |
  |George Wroughton     |April 12, 1821|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel     |
  |  Montagu            |              |{  unattached, May 19, 1825.    |
  |John Gualey          |July  26, 1821|Cancelled.                      |
  |Howell Harris        |July  26, 1821|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel,    |
  |  Prichard           |              |{  April 26, 1831.              |
  |John Elliot Cairnes  |May   26, 1825|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel     |
  |                     |              |{  unattached, March 29, 1827.  |
  |John Peddie          |March 29, 1827|{Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel     |
  |                     |              |{  unattached, August 28, 1827. |
  |William Gun          |Aug.  28, 1827|Retired October 11, 1831.       |
  |William Mitchell     |April 26, 1831|{Exchanged to half-pay,         |

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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

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