Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755 and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
History
Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755 and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 53rd -- History
---- The six companies sent to England in 1813, returned
to Spain, and advanced to Tarbes --
1814 Employed in operations against the castle of L'Ourde 52
---- Engaged in the Battle of Toulouse --
---- Received the Royal Authority to bear the word
"_Toulouse_" on the colours and appointments --
---- Termination of the Peninsular War 54
---- Received the Royal Authority to bear the word
"_Peninsula_" on the colours and appointments --
---- Encamped at Bordeaux --
---- Embarked for Ireland --
---- Re-embarked for England 55
1815 Stationed at Portsmouth 55
---- Battle of Waterloo, and surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte --
---- Proceeded with Napoleon Bonaparte to St. Helena --
---- Medals presented to certain Serjeants for services
in the Peninsular War --
1817 Returned from St. Helena to England 56
---- Arrived at Portsmouth, and proceeded to Canterbury 57
---- Disbanded at Canterbury --
THE CONCLUSION 59
SUCCESSION OF COLONELS
OF THE
FIFTY-THIRD
OR
THE SHROPSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.
YEAR PAGE
1755 William Whitmore 59
1759 John Toovey --
1770 Robert Dalrymple Horne Elphinstone 60
1794 Gerard Lake, afterwards _Viscount_ Lake --
1796 Welbore Ellis Doyle 62
1798 Charles Crosbie 63
1807 _Honorable_ John Abercromby, G.C.B --
1817 Rowland Lord Hill, G.C.B. 65
1830 Lord FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, G.C.B. 68
Memoir of the Services of Major-General Sir GEORGE
RIDOUT BINGHAM, K.C.B. 69
PLATES.
Costume of the Regiment _to face Page_ 1
Colours of the Regiment 34
Monument erected at Shrewsbury to the memory
of the officers and soldiers of the Regiment
who were killed at the Battles of _Aliwal_
and _Sobraon_, on the 28th January and 10th
February, 1846 58
GENERAL ORDERS.
_HORSE-GUARDS_,
_1st January, 1836_.
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